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Sue contacts us on 22nd August 2006
"My friend in Thailand has just emailed me some more
'special' photographs, I thought you might like to share
them with everyone."
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 rematurely 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
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 weaner 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?
Take a look........ you won't believe your eyes!!!!
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