Friday, June 29, 2007

Hard to Believe

I know I'm way overdue for a post consisting of some substance to catch you up on what I've been up to. But, until then, I'll share yet another e-mail I received. You may or may not have seen it.


"Hard to Believe"

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.

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.









































4 Comments:

At July 01, 2007 1:46 AM, Blogger Pamela said...

I know this was supposed to be a sweet thing (Charlottes Web kinda sweet)
But it made me laugh laugh laugh.

 
At July 01, 2007 1:50 AM, Blogger Pamela said...

ps.
the feeding time picture
is covered by your side bar.

 
At July 01, 2007 11:27 AM, Blogger Bobbi said...

Thanks for telling me! The pics looked ok when I viewed my blog. I changed the pics to be flush left. I hope they are not blocked now.

 
At July 02, 2007 8:38 AM, Blogger Yvonne said...

Awww - that is so cute!!

 

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