I hate to keep posting about animals over and over, but I keep getting these great forwards. Check this out.
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,
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.
