A set of four incredibly rare golden tiger cubs are being looked after at a zoo in China as sweet pictures and videos show the young mammals sleeping in incubators.
The baby Bengal tigers are made up of a male and three female cubs. Per the Daily Mail, they have remained healthy after their recent birth on October 19 in eastern China's Zhejiang Province.
The young cubs have golden fur and reddish-brown stripes as a result of a recessive mutation. Their species is supposedly rarer than the giant panda, the Daily Mail reports.
Related - This German Shepherd is raising two lion cubs after their mother rejected them:The outlet also states that as little as 30 golden tigers are believed to be in existence - this is 62 times fewer than the number of wild pandas. Indeed, according to the most recent census by World Wildlife carried out in 2014, there are 1,864 wild pandas.
Videos and photos show the gorgeous cubs - who are exactly two weeks old today - sleeping and playing around with each other in their incubators.
They were born to a captive golden tiger at the Taihu Lake Longemont Paradise, an amusement park with a wildlife zoo in eastern Chinese city Huzhou.
The young cubs are being cared for round the clock by staff at the zoo as their mother has shown no maternal instinct due to a lack of experience, the animal park said.
Due to their low fertility rate, the golden tigers are incredibly rare, according to the zoo.
"The golden tiger is a mutant tiger species produced by the genetic mutation of the Bengal tiger," the park wrote in a social media post per the Daily Mail.
"The breeding rate is lower than that of their close relatives, the white tiger and the snow tiger, and there are fewer of them than the pandas."
Known for their unusual golden coloring and reddish stripes, the tigers' striking appearance is the result of a recessive gene that controls the production of color during the hair growth cycle.
The giant panda was once considered an endangered species but was taken off the list of endangered animals back in 2016 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature after several years of painstaking conservation efforts by Chinese experts.