Two of the three seven-week-old Sumatran tiger cubs at at ZSL London Zoo explore the outdoor paddock of their home in Tiger Territory for the first time...Brian Jordan / ZSL
...The tiger cubs' mother Melati takes one of the cubs back to bed. In the 1970s, there were estimated to be 1,000 Sumatran tigers in the wild, today's figures show there are just 300. Should their numbers continue to decline at this rate, Sumatran tigers will face the very real threat of extinction within the next decadeBrian Jordan / ZSL
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