Final necropsy results for BREC zoo's Malayan tiger released

BATON ROUGE - BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo has released the final necropsy results for the facility’s juvenile Malayan tiger that died last month.“Gastric dilatation is what we initially suspected as the cause of death based on the video footage we had from her den, but we couldn’t say that conclusively without further testing,” said Dr. Gordon Pirie, Zoo Veterinarian. “Technically the definitive cause of death is still unknown, but gastric d