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Troubled Tiger Cubs Become Best Friends

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (CBS4) - Two tiger cubs with troubling pasts quickly became best friends at the Safari Park in San Diego, California.

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(credit: San Diego Safari Park)

The park received a Bengal Tiger cub last month after U.S. Customs and Border Protection found a teenager trying to smuggle the cub from Mexico.

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(credit: San Diego Safari Park)

On Monday, a Sumatran tiger cub was delivered to the park from the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

It was rejected by its mother shortly after it was born in mid-July.

The two cubs met, and park officials say the cubs "took to each other immediately."

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(credit: San Diego Safari Park)

The cubs, whose names have either not been decided or not been released, are being watched over by keepers at the Animal Care Center.

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