In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs.? Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy,? the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, died shortly after birth.
The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly? started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the
tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.
After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment.
Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only "orphans" that could be found quickly, were a litter of wiener pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger.
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don't leave us in suspense glyn ... did it work? :D
Or did she have a nice snack?
just what I was thinking RB - hope it does have a happy ending tho.
Quotedon't leave us in suspense glyn ... did it work?
Well they look OK to me.... now I've finally got the photos up? ;D
Awwww, love mumma's blissful look! ;D
Those pictures were taken in 2004 at Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand. The zoo itself is popular for it's carnival and circus type shows and that's what this is all about. The above story is an urban legend.
Yeah go on, you can all throw rotten cabbages at me now for ruining the cute story, LOL!
Thank you for sharing Yello ;D
Quoteyou can all throw rotten cabbages
d**n it! clean outta "rotten cabbages"
I don't always check these things Sam. ;D