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.

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. 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!

Mother Nurture:

Mother Nurture:

Mother Nurture:

Aww! Gimme!

Actually, this was in Thailand. And it was the tiger that was fed by the mother pig.

http://www.animalliberationfront.com/News/AnimalPhotos/Animals_1-10/Tiger_piglets.htm

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/tigerpig.asp

You got me!!:faint:

I should have checked Snopes, but the pictures were so beautiful, that I posted them without checking. :help:

I am a bad boy.:embarassed:

And my spelling is screwed up too.

I started to write "Mother Nature" and attempted to change it to "Mother Nurture" and would up with "Mother Narture".:faint:

Still, so cute!

Very, very cute!