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Tue 5 Apr, 2005 08:32 pm
Report: Woman Breastfeeds Two Endangered Tiger Cubs
POSTED: 9:16 am CDT April 5, 2005
A Burmese woman has been breastfeeding two Bengal tiger cubs, according to the London Telegraph.
Hla Htay, 40, a mother of three apparently began feeding the cubs at a zoo in Rangoon after they were removed from their "aggressive mother," the Telegraph reported.
The mother tiger apparently killed a third cub from her litter.
"I felt sorry for them so I decided to feed them before their teeth grow," she told the privately-owned English-language paper Myanmar Times, the Telegraph reported.
The Bengal tiger is listed as endangered on the World Conservation Union's red list, with the global population estimated at fewer than 2,500, according to the paper, which reported that a tenth of them live in Burma.
The tigers are apparently threatened by poachers who kill them for medicines and trophies.
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Well, it had a misleading title.
edgarblythe wrote:Well, it had a misleading title.
Yes, it did. I didn't know what to expect when I decided to look at the thread. Although, it is a bizarre story.
allow me my artistic license would you boys? :wink:
Sure, but, when I see a word like titties in a header, I skip the thread; therefore, I had no way of knowing it was about a woman feeding tiger cubs that way.
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