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 they died shortly after birth.
Though physically fine following delivery, the mother tiger began to decline in health. Veterinarians felt that she had fallen into a depression due to the loss of her cubs. Their feeling was that if she could surrogate another tiger's cubs she might improve.
But after checking with zoos across the country they learned there were no cubs of the right age to introduce to the grieving tigress. The veterinarians decided to try an experiment never before attempted with this species. They knew that some species would mother infants of another species if conditions were right. The only "orphans" they could find quickly were a litter of weanling pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed them around the momma tiger. The only question was, "Would she accept them as cubs, or would they become pork chops?"
I don't know how you take this, but I find hope in it.
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