Three rare white tiger cubs were born at the Buenos Aires zoo on December 23rd.
The tigers made their public debut on Thursday.
The tiger triplets do not yet have names, but visitors to the zoo are asked to contribute ideas.
There are only 250 or so white tigers left in captivity.
These tigers are a genetic variation of the better known bengal tigers.
Their used to be over 100,000 white tigers in the wild,
but poaching and deforestation have reduced those numbers down to about 5-7,000.
The cubs's mother and father are Bety and Conde.
Here is two news websites,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070209/ap_on_sc/argentina_white_tiger_cubs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070208/sc_nm/tigers_argentina_dc
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