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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Hadiah, (HA-dee-yah) meaning "gift" in Malay/Indonesian, an endangered Sumatran tiger, only about 400 believed to exist in the wild, celebrated her one year birthday at the Woodland Park Zoo's outdoor tiger exhibit at Adaptations. Hadiah, who weighs 166 pounds, enjoyed a paper-mache reindeer smothered under the reindeer's tail with the very pungent civet musk. During the major Seattle windstorm in 2006 Hadiah was born and two weeks later was taken to the zoo's veterinary hospital for critical care when her mother stopped showing consistent maternal care. According to the Zoo, Hadiah stayed with human care for two months, spending half her time where her parents live so she could see, hear, and smell other tigers. YouTube and the zoo's website offered people all over the world photos and videos of Hadiah's life as the Zoo cared for her in their nursery. Though Hadiah was not reintroduced to her mother she has regular visual contact wit
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