This is the first cub, born in a zoo in 2019. Its weight is 20 grams (an adult weighs more than 4.5 kilograms).

Baby is actively learning to hunt. At first crickets were the prey of the gila-toothed, then feed rodents were added to the diet, the publication argumenti.ru reports.

At present, the cub is in the inner room, where herpetologists are watching. Soon it can be seen in the pavilion "Terrarium" in the new territory of the zoo, said the portal of the mayor and the government of Moscow.

Earlier it was reported that the Amur tiger, known for friendship with the goat Timur, intend to transfer to one of the parks of the Krasnodar Territory.