That many babies in China?
China is crowing about the fact that 84 rare Siberian tigers have been born in captivity since March at a breeding center in the country's northeast Heilongjiang province. China also plans to "establish a gene bank for the endangered Siberian tigers within three years to ensure heredity diversity of the big cats" and release 620 of the tigers into the wild.
Surely before that point the Communist government will think it wise to implement a one-cub policy. After all, you can't have unchecked cub births being a strain on the country. Of course, this could lead to female cubs being killed in favor of males, and then you'll have a big lopsided male tiger population. Punitive sanctions, forced abortions, and general inhumanity could enforce this policy.
Of course, China may be content to treat tigers better than their people -- until, perhaps, they realize that Chinese women are becoming a rare species, as well.
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