Tainted Meat Killed Tigers, Official Says

Twelve Royal Bengal tigers died in an Indian zoo after eating contaminated meat, a laboratory official said. Originally, authorities at the Nandankanan Zoo in Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa state, said the tigers died this month of sleeping sickness, a disease carried by tsetse flies. But tests by Calcutta’s Pathological Laboratory, run by the federal government, established that the deaths were caused by the consumption of decomposed and contaminated cow meat, an official at the lab said.