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Bengal tiger cubs Riley and Hope, play with balls in their cage at the Al-Zawraa zoo in Baghdad, on August 8, 2008. Two rare Bengal tigers were presented to Baghdad's Al-Zawraa zoo today by a private US conservation group, in a move deeply symbolic of American efforts to help restore the animal park. The two-year-old 150-pound (68-kilo) cubs, named Riley, a male, and Hope, a female, cost 33,000 dollars each to ship and arrived four days ago after a wildlife conservation centre in North Carolina agreed to donate the US-bred animals. AFP PHOTO/ALI AL-SAADI (Photo credit should read ALI AL-SAADI/AFP/Getty Images)