Saturday 3 April 2010

CONFUSED IDENTITIES

I just found out that the story I posted about the Tigress and the piglets in a zoo in California is not real.  It was really the handiwork of some creative person who decided to come up with an interesting TALE for the photographs.
The real story goes like this:
The Bengal tiger was suckled by a mother pig until she was 4 months old at a zoo in Thailand.  She also grew up with a litter of piglets. It was this unusual bonding that she had as a cub that made it easy for her to suckle the 6 piglets later on.  Anyway, it seems that one species nurturing another is part of a visual entertainment for guests to the zoo.  I guess the poor animals might be confused themselves and wonder if they are tigers or pigs???
REFERENCE: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/tigerpig.asp

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