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Hope comes in many forms. In this case, it comes with eight adorable little paws and a whole bunch of stripes. Two rare Sumatran tiger cubs made their television debut this morning on NBC's "Today." The pair was born May 25 at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Wash. Including these new additions, there are just 74 Sumatran tigers in captivity in North America and only a few hundred exist in the wild. The birth of these cubs is particularly remarkable because their mom and dad, Jaya and Bali, were pretty clueless when it came to continuing their critically endangered species: "Neither one could seem to understand what needed to be done," Andy Goldfarb, staff biologist at Port ...

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