Tiger expert Huang Gongqing examines a set of quadruplet tigers at a South China Tiger breeding center in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. A 9-year-old tigress gave birth to the four cubs - two males, two females - on Monday. The "hero tiger mother" has given birth to 16 cubs in the past five years; nine of them survived.

(Xinhua News Agency December 14, 2005)