a white tiger from La Flèche zoo has died

« Rewa, our female white tiger left us recently, at the beautiful age of 17. » This is the announcement made by the La Flèche zoo (Sarthe), this Monday, November 4, 2024, which adds: « She fully appreciated the fact that she was offered something to sleep well in the straw. And that's how she fell asleep, with her favorite toy. »

Arrival at the zoo in March 2016

Born in 2007 and arrived at the zoo in March 2016, Rewa shared his enclosure with a male, Hades. “To this day, Hades does not seem to be affected by the absence of Rewa but we are of course attentive to his well-being,” explains the zoo on Facebook.

The female white tiger owed its name to a princely state in India. The first white tigers were in fact described in the country between 1556 and 1605. The first individual was officially captured in 1820. But it was not until 1959 that a white tiger was discovered, as a baby, by the Maharaja of… Rewa . This feline then became the progenitor of most specimens in captivity.