Nikita, a 6-year-old Amur tiger, gets a root canal Saturday from animal dentist Barron Hall at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington. (Calla Kessler/For The Washington Post)Nikita, a 308-pound Amur tiger, was blissfully gassed out on a gurney at the National Zoo. She’s part of the Amur tiger subspecies, an endangered population that lives mostly near the Amur River in Siberia. He arrived at the National Zoo in the fall of 2017 from Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. For the National Zoo, Pavel was a huge prize: He was the first of his endangered subspecies to be exhibited here since 1948.

Source: Washington Post February 09, 2019 22:39 UTC