Raised by Pigs, Tiger returns the Favor
This is going back a few years, but cuteness never grows old.
These pictures come from Siracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand, where the intermingling of species is not at all unusual… The tiger herself was raised by pigs, so she sees pigs as some kind of weird, bald tigers.
Although the Sriracha Tiger Zoo is off the beaten track, it is nonetheless quite a famous zoo, with one of the world’s most successful breeding programs for tigers. But breeding tigers is not its only agenda. Visitors have reported seeing tigers, pigs, and dogs all housed together within the same enclosure, with sows nursing tiger cubs and tigresses nursing piglets “adorned in tiger-print costumes.”
This tiger nursed from a pig and now nurses pigs…Aawwwww! When the pigs get too old, bam! Pork and hot sauce.
[Cheers urbanlegends]
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Great! loved it
This is so cute. Its so amazing to see a tiger to be raised by pigs but its even more amazing to see a tiger raise pigs. im in love with these pictures and theyve almost sort of touched me.
this is unreal
The actual story of what happened at this zoo is that they switched the young. The tiger and pig gave birth at roughly the same time – they switched the litters. Nothing cute about that, just humans messing up with nature at the risk of innocent animals. Thankfully it turned out well (the mothers nursed their "new" babies) but there's nothing cute about this story at ALL, despite it making it's rounds on the internet as some "awww" story.
i think its fucked up that they cut the skins off the dead baby tigers and put them on fucking PIGS to trick the mom…way fucked up.
I have a feeling that is not real tiger skin.
I could eat any one of those cuties.
There's all kinds of fucked-upness all over this article