They were sent to General Secretary Kim Jong Il by the Kuwaiti Zoo on the occasion of the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

Among them are a pair of African lions (Panthera leo), a pair of dromedaries (Camelus dromedarius), a pair of barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia), a pair of black bucks (Antilope cervicapra), four pairs of hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) and vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiopus), four male and two female.

The dromedaries, with legs some 30 centimeters longer than other camels living in the Central Zoo, are 1.6-1.7 meters high in the shoulder part, about 2.5 meters long and 400-500 kilograms heavy.

The new comers have been placed under a scientific and technological care at the Central Zoo.