Tiger befriends piglets in zoo pigs mother

[themantien]

the tiger's just waiting for these piglets to grow into juicy pigs and then it'll strike!

[Funzer789]

Simpily greatly adoable!! Y i wanna work in a zoo

[iJunglehazel]

ARTIGE

[CrackinDutches]

Seems like they switched the babies to me.. pretty cool to see a tiger/pig hybrid though.

[erinandcompany]

'Kay kids, repeat after me, RAWWWWR!"

"Oink! Oink!"

"Noooo! Not even close! You're not gonna scare anybody with that! Now try again, "RAWWWWR!"

[cyberius100]

disturbing.



[junryandelacruz]

these animals are gonna grow up so confused....

[LadyButtonz]

Erm everyones calling this tiger a HE it's actually a SHE. Just to correct, ye.

[spellbound55]

I could understand if it was necessary for the survival of the piglets or the tiger cubs, but it's obvious they just mix the families up to attract attention and visitors to the zoo. Don't like it.

[cdmcowcam]

What happens when the piglets lose the jacket?

WHERE DID MY BABIES GO?

[stephen4715]

I was there and seen this in the flesh. I'm sure they also had tiger cubs suckling from a pig and a dog in an enclosure with a tiger. And a shitload of crocodiles! Got my picture taken bottle feeding a tiger cub :D

[Jenny122998]

Aaawww!!!

[phamlecuchuong]

this stuff is fucking cute!

[rougecards]

He's just getting close so he can have dinner.

[DeathrowRecords1995]

hes waiting for them to get bigger then hell eat em

[MsAlexandraMM]

AWW! PIGGIES?!

[mra0923]

como alguien no le puede gustar esto???

[x0ticShwty]

W. T. F.

[thealexthing]

er, anyone else think this is fucking disgusting?

[GeneralG1810]

Hmmm I wonder how the pigs are gona turn out? Dare you to try and slaughter them for bacon when theyre older, they'll tear you apart

[kaygirl7]

pigcub!

[liensvoice]

i love how the tiger's pink tongue slightly is sticking out at :35 XD

[tinkergirlie]

The piglets were orphan'd also, and the only nearby babies available for her to adopt, so to speak... or at least that is what I read. I think it's beautiful! :-)

[xKomodithrax102x]

@SDBXLS dont jump to conclutions think bout if their mother died or something so stop saying that its cruel

the tiger lost her cubs and the piglets lost their mother that might be the reason

[nfs444]

Lol. whats gonna happen when one of them has their suit fall off?

[lbr218]

i just love how the piggies are dressed up :P

[teta809]

What is this an experiment?

[ParaMaker16]

stupid thailand wtf are they doing?



[CorrectionPen]

hahaha, pigs are so adorable

[GGsdEvIL]

small tiger will cut pigs tits

[waveshaper]

It's a muslim tiger, they don't eat pigs.

[TheJelly1990]

LMAO . i swear i laugh so hard when i read this !! :p

[BigVicTheBadSeed]

@waveshaper Apparently the tiger was nursed by a pig as a cub

[johnlovestohate]

@waveshaper Dude I am a Muslim and your comment cracked me up so badly that I couldn't stop laughing for a whole 10 minutes. :)

[coolgeraldchark]

@waveshaper epic win comment 

[BillyBobTS]

@waveshaper made me lol

[LisaSpringfield]

@waveshaper LMAO!

[Vlynlow09]

u mean they purposely swap the babies??? that's not very nice.. the Pig's milk are not meant for tiger and the tiger's milk are not meant for the pigs.. meaning they mayb mulnutrition~~

[morgoniustwonk]

actually, they raise most Zoo animals on pig's milk, as it makes the big cats (tigers, lions, leopards, etc.) more docile and less wild.

this is important in a zoo, where humans are in danger every time they step in to take care of the animals.

ofc, if they find that dogs, particularly retrievers and labs, make better adoptive mothers for orphaned babies.

but as far as milk goes, pigs milk apparently is better.

google it to learn more about it :)

[Wothi]

total bescheuert, und die armen richtigen tiegerbabys werden einfach in eneg keline käfige gesperrt wo sie sich noch nich mal drehen können! asiaten sind total behindert im kopf! i-was is bei denen echt richtig schief gelaufen im kopf! aber so richtig richtig...

[xXGoDzMaRiNeXx]

LMAO.. thats adorable, I love how they have little costumes on.

[MrRiot85]

lots of people raise there own food, why not tigers?

[lakersownsuns]

wow..lets take this into consideration:the 300 pound tiger..is 6 yrs old

[quick2paint]

thats stupid trying to get tiger and pigs together

[dannntrannn]

the tiger is acting like their mom. it's altruistic behavior.

[bobbykurka]

this was an actual study, the mother lost its cubs and became very depressed/sick. they had no other choice but to try something new, and they wrapped them in the fur and now you have this video

[fatdanios]

I did a check on this story that came to me first in an email and it is a circus that has these animals and they purposefully put the pigs with the tiger for the entertainment of people who visit. Check out the story on snopes. Just google "Is it true about tiger in zoo raising piglets". You will find it. Some other devious stuff going on as well.

[BigVicTheBadSeed]

@bobbykurka That's a myth, that never happened with the dead cubs and such.

[diemape]

@bobbykurka well it seems that you didnt see the video... her cubs are alright and with their new pig mother...

[TheVriezenveen]

@diemape yes i have seen it, its really crazy!!!

[Holagurrl25]

@bobbykurka Actually, this wasn't a study. This zoo is known for it's cross-species exhibits. The pigs don't even need the costumes, the costumes are just there for the entertainment factor. I also read somewhere [but it's possible it's untrue] that the tiger was raised by a pig [another cross-species exhibit at the zoo].

Although I do think it's cute, it's sad that this video was not the result of human compassion, but for human's enjoyment through exploitation.

[Jacob77347]

@bobbykurka Just to once again re-iterate what has been said.

THIS WAS NOT A STUDY...

Sriracha tiger zoo where these cubs, and piglets are, routinely swaps out cross-species litters.

It's also important to remind everyone that this place also breeds and sell's tigers to China where their body

parts are used in traditional Chinese medicine... I mean... am I the ONLY person with google... or do you all just really trust what you see on facebook or read in a mass e-mail?

[aveyowyns]

@bobbykurka

...actually, that's a fake story.

[shakesqueere]

@bobbykurka Wrong. See: snopes[dot]com / photos / animals / tigerpig . asp

[bremzy14Travolta]

amazing:')

[m112demo]

I plan to go to this place in April but I have mixed emotions. I have heard storys about this place about the living conditions and treatment of the animals.

[FusionNinjin]

pigs wearing tigersuits, no wonder the tiger doesnt attack them, thats like a wolf in sheep cloths, theyr obviusly in disquise for protection purposes

[setokaiba22]

She probably knows the scent of her own babies and knows those pigs are not her by the scent - she is just maternal and allowing them to nurse her.

[Excuse711]

i read this story long ago.. her babies all died so they put these pigs in her area...... she probably knows they aren't hers, but she just had babies.............

[Jal8919536]

0:55 - Mmm! Living fur carpet! XD

[flameow152]

I went to the Sriracha tiger zoo in December, and I don't see any truth to the story of the tiger cubs dying and being replaced by piglets. It was only done to attract attention and draw visitors. They also have exhibits with dogs, pigs, and tigers in the same cage. The whole allure is that animals that would otherwise prey on each other are "getting along".

This is actually one of the better zoos in Thailand, as pitiful as it looks. They're still working on animal rights.

[orangeblossom03]

It's just a cruel hoax to get attention - the tiger cubs didn't die, they just put animals of two different species together to attract more zoo visitors. And the piglets are adorable, but you can see that the tiger snarls at them when they get too close.

[86504]

why cant i see the video

anyone want to chat 2H

[WHHS2002]

that's just wrong they should keep the babies with their own mother and not change them around.

[OHYESx]

why were they swapped over??

[Felix0072]

Aparently, the mother tiger gave birth to three cubs at once, but they shortly died after because they were premature. The mother became unhealthy/depressed, so the zookeepers decided to make her better by having her nurse, like a true mother, giving her those positive feelings back.

[Mettachetta]

and that's why they swapped tiger cubs too?

[UcanbeGOD]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! HAHAAHA! :44 sec Looks like the piglets are sporting assless chaps! LOLOLOL

[supersandor]

Yeah, they're totally teaching the piglets to be real sluts. What else, I ask, would you call a pig in tiger print panties? Definitely mommy's cuter. I wonder if when they were hand-feeding her meat, if that was pork. That would be funny.

[JelloJacky]

what would happen if u take the tiger costumes off the piggy's?

[hunnykun101]

That's so cute and werid

[skyefox]

whaaa fucking cry.

[belazela]

Unacceptable that a zoo could be needlessly getting baby tigers fed by a pig. I dont like zoos - they are unfair on animals as its not their natural habitat.

[64StarWolf]

I agree, but there are far worse places than a zoo. Slaughterhouses for example, or research facilities.. =/

[bleustilton]

You're a jackass.

[ANTiKr00t]

Augh... that looks scary. O_O

[candyspears]

Aww..the piglet sleeping on top of the tiger is so so so adorable.

[omarahad]

you dont know the story dickheadds. the tigers cubs got killed and became depressed so the zoo did this and hte tiger started taking care of them feeding them and eating as well.

[MissIncognito]

actually that's not true...

Summary of the eRumor:

Several pictures of an adult tiger seeming to be mothering some piglets wrapped in tiger skins. The email says that the pictures are from a zoo in California where the mother tiger had lost triplets and the grieving was so bad that it began to affect her health. A search for surrogate cubs was fruitless so the zoo decided to capitalize on one species sometimes rearing the young of another species and brought in some orphaned piglets,

[MissIncognito]

wrapped them in tiger skins, and accomplished a feat never seen in a zoo before. One email refers to the tiger as "Mother of the Year."

The Truth:

The pictures are not from a zoo in California but the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand, a popular attraction that boasts of 200 tigers, 100,000 crocodiles, trained pigs, elephants, and other animals. The zoo features creative shows and displays of animals including these pictures of an adult tiger with piglets dressed like tiger cubs. One of the go

[MissIncognito]

One of the goals of the zoo is to demonstrate how animals of different species can live peacefully together. One of the experiments was introducing baby piglets to a mother tiger (who herself had been nursed by a pig) and it worked. At one time the mother tiger nursing piglets was in an enclosure next to an enclosure where a sow was nursing baby tigers. The zoo says those cubs grew faster from the pig's milk. The story about the CA zoo, the grieving mother tiger, and the orphaned piglets is a

[MissIncognito]

hoax that somebody decided to attach to the pictures. :)

[bobbytomorow]

sick fucking chinamen exploiting these animals

[wwwgil]

bob, wtf are you taliking about, what chinamen?

[relikvija]

they are all chinese

[butterflysam23]

this isnt in china and they are not chinese! go back to gr.5 geology

[Gunman24681357]

this isn't china dumb ass it says in the beginning that it is in bangkok, thailand

[butterflysam23]

this isnt even in China! get your story right before you start slandering an entire race!

[bobbytomorow]

thailand, same shit

[tsken2k]

Yes, just how USA and Canada are exactly the same. :)

[Yoga1978]

how long before the tiger decides when to eat dinner?

[Canuckshousz]

tiger cubs are really friendly when they are little

[mattavina]

eat that pig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Swanny930]

sooo cute

[iambarking]

beautiful tiger and cute piglets :)

[Kimmy1]

oh so cute!!!! TIGER!!!!

BEAUTIFUL!!