Posted by: bidhan40 September 26, 2006
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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 wiener 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........
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