Received a forwarded email from mum, thought I can share out with everyone here, coz its such a sweet story ^^ Enjoy, Pork Chops 😛
*Font in colors are the quoted message ^^
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…
*I sooooooo wanna hug and touchie the tiger and the piglets!! @.@
Oh wow, that’s 1 story must to be tagged in Facebook. =)
hahaha yup~ I adi shared XDDD
the tiger would feed the piglets so that can have a great meal later when the piglet become bigger? 😛
lol~ I dun think tiger can think tat far XD
cool, i like the shot where the 5 piglets lying on top of the tiger.
hahaha yup, cute~ 😀