They were in a state of shock.. Two lions and two tigers were transported from Ukraine to a shelter in Holland!
Two lions and two tigers in shock and undernourishment from Ukraine have arrived in northern Holland, the Dutch organization that received the animals on the Ukraine-Poland border confirmed.
The Stitching Lowe organization confirmed on Facebook that it had received "two lions, the first of which is three and a half years and the second of one and a half years, a tiger of six months and a female tiger of five years."
The organization's director, Robert Cruijff, told AFP that the animals were "in a state of severe shock" and were undernourished, as they had not had food for a week or two.
He noted that the animals made an "exhausted" journey before reaching Poland in a bus carrying Ukrainian animals.
The organization declared that the condition of the female tiger is the worst.
"We don't know if she will survive," Cruijff said.
The four animals will remain in quarantine for a month at an animal shelter belonging to the organization in the city of Anna Paulona in the north of the Netherlands, to be sent later to a reserve in South Africa, but they will first need to regain their strength, which may take a year or two.
He pointed out that the zoo in Pozna, western Poland, had organized the transportation of the animals.
Animal shelters in Spain and Belgium received six lions, tigers and other animals that were evacuated from Ukraine in early March.
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