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 ?
Now, please tell me one more time ...
Why can't the rest of the world get along?
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How totally precious!!! You are so right. Why can't we all get along?
Aww!
We can't all get along because we have superior intelligence.
Very touching photos. But you know that if one of those little oinkers slips out of that tiger stripe vest, there's going to be ham for lunch!
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