Baton Rouge Zoo Announces Birth of Malayan Tiger Cubs [VIDEO]

Baton Rouge welcomes the birth of two new tigers.

BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo announced Thursday that its female Malayan tiger gave birth to two cubs on July 29.

They are the first tiger cubs born at the Baton Rouge Zoo in almost 25 years, and are the fifth and sixth Malayan tiger cubs born this year nationwide.

The cubs are not on exhibit yet, and typically stay in the den with their mother for two to three months. But in the meantime, the zoo's set up a TigerCam on its website where you can get a peek at the cubs and their mother.

The female tiger had four cubs, but two did not survive.

"Among big cats, first time mothers can commonly be incompetent in caring for their young which can sometimes result in none of the cubs surviving," said Sam Winslow, the zoo's assistant director and general curator. "Therefore we were very pleased that two of the four cubs have survived."

The zoo does not yet know the gender of the cubs.

The cubs' father is the zoo's male Malayan tiger, who arrived from the Little Rock Zoo in 2012. The female came from the Fort Worth Zoo in 2009.