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Mila, who was moved to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo from Toronto Zoo in March 2023, was suffering from a dental issue, which needed to be operated on.
The Toronto Zoo is mourning the loss of one of its former residents, Mila, a two-year-old Amur tiger, who moved from Toronto to Colorado earlier this year.
"She could have slid off from that height a hundred times and landed in a variety of other positions and been unaffected," the zoo's head veterinarian said
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A rare 2-year-old Amur tiger died in a freak accident on Friday at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after falling off a bench while under anesthesia, which fatally injured her spine
The two-year-old big cat named Mila was one of only 500 Amur tigers in the world