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Ranchi: Three royal Bengal tigers and a leopard have died at a zoo in Ranchi after being infected by a malaria-like disease, sparking fears that other endangered big cats could be at risk, officials said. Officials of Ranchi's Birsa Zoological Park, in Jharkhand, said all four tigers had stopped eating days before they succumbed to the disease. They confirmed that the blood tests of the dead tigers tested positive for babesiosis. While the first of the deaths, that of a male tiger, was reported on the 9th of July, deaths of another male and a tigress followed. A leopard has also since lost its life to the disease.
July 19, 2006
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