The truth coming to light
It didn’t take long after that for the truth to come to light. Apparently, the zookeeper was aware of the smuggling organization and had planned to purchase the pregnant tiger from them. However, he was informed that this was not an option.
The zoo owner had known of the smugglers and also bought the mother tiger from them.
Only after the tiger had given birth had he been permitted to purchase it for his zoo, and when he saw that the sanctuary had discovered three tiger kittens, he quickly put two and two together. Those had to be the mother’s infants, which he had just unlawfully purchased!