8.
Pork Chops
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...
I'll leave you to decide what the moral of
the story is!
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