A tiger mother5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. 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 doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth. In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. The pictures are real, but the accompanying explanation about a mother tiger in California being given piglets to ease her through a depression stemming from the loss of her own cubs is nothing but fiction: As often happens, an item about a tiger's nursing piglets appears to be a case in which someone came across some unusual photographs with no explanatory context and decided to make up his own background story. ![]()
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