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The number of animals and birds keeps growing in the Central Zoo in Pyongyang.

According to Kim Kwon Ho, deputy director in charge of technical affairs of the zoo, many creatures including the gift bird Acatua sulphurea have multiplied this year. 

After the bird sent by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to the zoo produced its young in January this year, a pet dog, also a gift animal, brought forth two male puppies in March. They weighed 110 grams each and were about 10 centimetres in length.

 And an offspring of lemur, a gift animal sent to President Kim Il Sung by a foreign president, gave birth to a baby in April.

A Korean tiger and Selenarctos thibetanus also produced their younglings.

The three baby tigers (one male and two females) originally weighed 0.8 to 1 kilogram and were 25 to 30 centimetres long.

They are now growing in weight day by day thanks to the efforts of the zoo’s employees.

The baby Selenarctos thibetanus (female) was 500 grams at birth, but now it weighs 16 kilograms.

An official of the Central Zoo said that 60 kinds of animals and birds have produced 200 younglings so far this year and all the breeders are making devoted efforts for them.