Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Piglet Cubs

While I'm not thrilled with the CNN redesign some aspects I find valuable. For example, the featured videos appear to include more animal-centric stories. Like this one titled: Tiger befriends piglet in the zoo. Lot more to the story as you can guess. Apparently the death of cubs depressed a mother tiger named Sai Mai in a Thailand zoo. Her health flagged so the zoo keepers searched for surrogates. The only ones to be found were baby piglets so in a stroke of brilliance they dressed the wee pigs in tiger-striped outfits (look at the vide!) and presented them to Mama tiger. Apparently Sai Mai found them palatable (excuse the pun) and proceeded to nurse the tiger pigs.

Rhapsodize all you want of human intelligence. Nothing beats the majestic power of motherhood.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think you have your facts wrong. Check out this website: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/tigerpig.asp