Members John Sayers Posted November 20, 2007 Members Share Posted November 20, 2007 My daughter sent me this 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? Take a look...you won't believe your eyes!! Now, please tell me one more time..... why can't the rest of the world get along? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members shniggens Posted November 20, 2007 Members Share Posted November 20, 2007 That tiger is just fattening them up for dinner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted November 20, 2007 Members Share Posted November 20, 2007 Awwww.... Be interesting to see if she teaches them how to hunt.... "Zookeeper mauled by man-eating pig"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted November 20, 2007 Moderators Share Posted November 20, 2007 Those cubs looks deli.... uh, cute! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TimOBrien Posted November 20, 2007 Members Share Posted November 20, 2007 My daughter sent me this 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...... Uhhhhhh, not quite. Semi-urban legend. Snopes.com is always a good place to find the REAL story..... http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/tigerpig.asp It's a breeding zoo in Thailand and the mixture of species is staged for entertainment.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted November 20, 2007 Members Share Posted November 20, 2007 Tiger-pig, Tiger-pig!Does whatever a Tiger-pig does! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted November 20, 2007 Members Share Posted November 20, 2007 Slurrrrp!! That's really cool! Very interesting, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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