aurangabad the city zoo authoritys hopes of increasing the white tiger count came crashing down last week a white tiger set free to mate with the tigress in an enclosure left the female with injuries on her tail on friday the siddhartha garden and zoo authorities set the tiger and tigress free in the same enclosure for mating the tiger become violent and eventually injured the tigress the tigress sustained injuries on her tail but she is now well zoo incharge b s naikwade told toi on tuesday zoo officials said that it is not unusual for the tigers to get violent during mating fridays incident has definitely scuttled their plans to allow mating of the rare big cat and increasing the population of white tigers in the zoo the authorities have now decided to keep the animals in separate cabin for some time due to space constraints in the zoo the authorities have been kept the tigers in isolation and in separate chambers for past one year but recently it was decided that the rare white tigers should be allowed to grow in numbers however looking at the incident we are now on the back foot he said the aurangabad municipal corporation amcrun siddhartha garden and zoo set up in 1984 is home to 10 royal bengal tigers and four white tigers six of the ten royal bengal tigers are female due to space constraints all the male and female big cats are being kept in separate chambers for past one year to prevent them from mating the zoo has 20 compartments for tigers in four different cages for smooth handling of the tigers the authorities have to keep some space free and thus they can accommodate only 14 to 15 tigers in january 2014 a royal bengal tigress gave birth to three cubs two female and one male then in june 2014 another tigress gave birth to two cubs the cza recently permitted the transfer of a pair of tigers to a zoo in pune with no additional space available at the zoo the authorities are not allowing mating of tigers as per the cza guidelines a zoo with wild animals should possess at least 25 acres of land but the aurangabad zoo home to about 230 animals of 25 different species has only 14 acres of land