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"Funny How Time Slips Away"
by
Elvis Presley
Adventures Of
Miss Charlie Kinsella
         
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.
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