Rare tiger kills prospective mate in London Zoo

LONDON: For ten days, the London Zoo kept its newly arrived male Sumatran tiger Asim in a separate enclosure from Melati, the female tiger who was supposed to become his mate. On Friday, zoologists put the two in the same enclosure - and almost instantly Asim attacked and killed Melati. It marked a shocking end to hopes that the two tigers would breed as part of a tiger conservation programme.