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, they 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 weanling pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops?
7 responses so far ↓
1 Taz // Feb 23, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Cubs or Pork Chops…too funny!!!
They were quite adorable though…little piglets in their tiger “skins”.
2 dannaaa // Feb 23, 2008 at 3:32 pm
soo cutee
3 Elle // Feb 23, 2008 at 4:25 pm
that is so sweet
4 cisko // Feb 23, 2008 at 7:48 pm
haha once that bitch or tigress; whatever, gets over her breakdown, dem pigs ain’t gunna be in them sheets……pickled pigs feet anyone?
5 michelle // Feb 24, 2008 at 9:32 am
way cute.
skeet are you doing any sx parties this year ?
6 Skeet Skeet // Feb 24, 2008 at 10:40 am
Yaa like 5 haha.
When i get all the dates and times i’ll post the info.
yayaya
7 Mindy // Mar 1, 2008 at 12:10 am
This article in WRONG. These pictures are more than two years old and this happened
at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand.
Gee, someone needs to get their facts straight!
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