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July 19, 2012 10:00 pm • Last Updated: July 19, 2012 10:22 pm

Yalta Zoo Director Oleg Zubkov holds a white lion cub in Yalta, the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine on Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Five white lion cubs were born in the Crimea earlier this month, three of them in a safari park and two in the Yalta Zoo. They will be brought up together at the Yalta Zoo. The cubs have no names but they will be named in a few months when they grow up.

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