Tiger cubs. A lactating woman in Myanmar has volunteered to breastfeed a pair of endangered Bengal tiger cubs recently born at a Yangon zoo and separated from their aggressive mother.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)
Posted on 04/04/2005 5:22:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Burmese woman is breastfeeding two tiger cubs at a zoo in Rangoon after they were removed from their aggressive mother.
Hla Htay, 40, who has three children, the youngest seven months old, offered her services after the Bengal tiger cubs' mother, Noah Noah, killed the third member of her litter.
The two others, a male and a female, were taken from her and now receive bottle feeds as well as Hla Htay's milk four times a day.
"I felt sorry for them so I decided to feed them before their teeth grow," she told the Myanmar Times, a privately-owned English-language paper in the capital.
The cubs were born at the Rangoon zoo a fortnight ago, the first there for 16 years. The Bengal tiger, Panthera tigris, is listed as endangered on the World Conservation Union's red list, with the global population estimated at fewer than 2,500.
A tenth of them live in Burma, where they are under threat from poachers seeking to feed markets for traditional medicines and trophies.
Big cat skins are easily obtained at markets on the Thai-Burmese border, with snow leopards the most commonly available. Dealers say that tiger parts are becoming more expensive and hard to obtain because of their dwindling supply.
Noah Noah and her mate were one of two pairs of tigers sent to the zoo from Thailand four years ago as part of an animal exchange.
That'll toughen up ones nips, even baby's have teeth like a pirahna
Ew.
Oy.
No WAY...
Ouch!
"Show us your kitties!"
ouch
“They're grrrrrrrrrreat!”
Runner-up for the Darwin Award.
at least she hasn't gone to the dogs.
Tiger cubs. A lactating woman in Myanmar has volunteered to breastfeed a pair of endangered Bengal tiger cubs recently born at a Yangon zoo and separated from their aggressive mother.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)
One of the good things in viagra is that it has slowed down (sadly not stopped, not by a long shot) the killing of tigers and rhinos in Asia. The release of Viagra to the market has led to a good number of wealthy Asian men switching to it instead of using powdered tiger bone and rhino horn to take care of their 'soldiers.' And for species like the Javan rhino and the Sumatran and South Chinese tigers (only 30-80 S.Chinese tigers remain) every single viagra pill is a tangible hope.
PING to my Vigilant Kindred List.
Not a ZOT Thread, but mugawd....
"Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom, doncha just love it..."
in viagra = about viagra.
I can't even imagine.
LOL!!! Brilliant!
I say EEP!.
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