Must see!

Update: Snopes.com has confirmed the pictures below are accurate photos; but an inaccurate description.  

Sometimes ignorance is bliss!

This was forwarded to me through an email chain, and I had to post it for others to see. 

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 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 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!!

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Now, please tell me one more time……….why we can’t all get along?

3 Responses to “Must see!”

  1. Tara Says:

    aww that is adorable… very good lesson as well

  2. nosnowhere Says:

    AWWWWWW I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!! omg, so so adorable!

  3. links for 2007-08-06 « no snow here Says:

    [...] Must see! OMFG I LOVE THIS! A tiger adopts an orphaned litter of piglets!!!!!! This is more adorable than you can handle. [...]

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