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Kira, a two and a half year-old tigress, arrived at a zoo in Mexico's northeast in April after her owner could no longer feed her due to the corona-virus-induced economic collapse. As quoted by AFP.com (03/6), the imposing 130-kilogram tigress was sedated and transported in a cage by truck to her new home in Culiacan zoo in Sinaloa state. Her owner had responded to a campaign by Mexico's Association of Zoos, Nurseries and Aquariums (AZCARM) to avoid abandoning wild animals during the lockdown. President of AZCARM, Ernesto Zazueta stated that abandonment happens when people can't cope with their animals any more, and in this pandemic, faced with the lack of economic resources and places to keep them, they prefer to get rid of them//AFP