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Monday, April 4, 2005

Woman breastfeeds tiger cubs

A woman in Myanmar (formerly Burma) is apparently breastfeeding a pair of Bengal tiger cubs at the Yangon Zoo. Their mother is too aggressive, having killed a cub in her litter. From Agence France Press:

Hla Htay, 40, a relative of a Yangon Zoological Gardens staffer and a mother of three including a seven-month-old baby, stepped in when she learned the cubs needed breast milk to survive.

"I felt sorry for them so I decided to feed them before their teeth grow," she told the (Myanmar Times).

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