At 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 because of their tiny size,
died shortly after birth.
After recovering from the delivery, the mother tiger
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. Sometimes a mother of one species
will take on the care of a different species, so the
veterinarians decided to try something that had
never been tried in a zoo environment. The only
orphans that could be found quickly were a litter of
weaning pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the
piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around
the mother tiger. Would they be adopted or be food?
Take a look...you won't believe your eyes!!
