Cubs or Pork Chops?
Tiger Pups – the art of camouflage!
In a California zoo, 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?