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Myanmar mother breastfeeds tiger cubs Bengal tiger cubs rejected by natural mom, zoo officials say
Updated: 12:10 p.m. ET April 22, 2005
YANGON, Myanmar - Hla Htay has three hungry infants to feed these days — a seven-month old baby boy and two Bengal tiger cubs.
Three times a day, the Myanmar housewife goes to the Yangon Zoo where she breastfeeds the hungry black-striped, orange-brown cubs rejected by their natural mother.
“The cubs are just like my babies,” Hla Htay told Fuji TV as as one of the baby big cats suckled her breast.
“It’s not scary at all,” she said of the 45-minute feeds. “I needed to do something for the cubs because I felt really sorry for them."
Three cubs were born at the zoo in mid-March, but their mother killed one and refused to nurse the others. Veterinarians rescued the other two but had little success bottle feeding them.
“They had some difficulties sucking the nipple on the bottle. When we tried to get the cubs to suck a lady’s breast, it was alright,” said a veterinarian.
The zoo says the breastfeeding will stop by the end of April or when the cubs start teething — whichever comes first.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
Breast milk is more healthy than formula.
I want to know who asked who ...
"Ms. Htay, we this is the Yangon Zoo calling, we hear you've recently given birth. Any chance you're breast feeding?"
"Hello, Yangon Zoo? I heard you have some tiger cubs that won't drink from a bottle. I may have something of interest to you ..."
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Joined: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:58 pm Posts: 1148 Location: Green Bay
Green Habit wrote:
stonecrest wrote:
Aside from the fact that most humans don't put their lips up to other animals' organs, how is this any weirder than humans drinking the milk of cows?
Heh, good point.
Yeah, I suppose that is a good point.
_________________ When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done. People did not like it here.''
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
*spits*
Milk is from cows?
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