Super Cool!
Like, oh my gosh, this is so cool! My friend sent this to me…check it out!
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?





That is, by far, one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen!
I don’t do this often because why rain on other’s parade – but the story is an urban legend – the pictures are from a zoo in Thailand where they have lots of weird exhibits and practices…not all of them good for the animals.
Tricia,
This isn’t completely an urban legend, just a little embellishment on the actual story.
The fact is, these piglets and the tiger ARE getting along. And even more unusual, the tiger herself was apparently raised by a pig.
This zoo in Thailand mixes alot of animals in cages and many of them do seem to get along, just as the photos imply.
What anonymous above said is also true, in that they have some weird exhibits and some questionable practices at this zoo.
But they have found a way to make tigers and pigs get along just fine, and that in itself is a marvel 🙂
Get the full story here:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/tigerpig.asp