Breastfed tiger cubs die of dehydration

[housewolf]

Report: Breastfed tiger cubs die of dehydration
Bengals did not take to human milk, Myanmar newspaper says
Reuters
Updated: 3:10 a.m. ET May 12, 2005

YANGON, Myanmar - Two Bengal tiger cubs breast fed for weeks by a Yangon housewife have died of heat and dehydration, a Myanmar newspaper reported on Thursday.

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The male died on May 3, six days after his sister perished.

“The main causes of death were scorching weather and lack of milk from the natural mother,” Dr. Khin Maung Win of the Yangon Zoological Garden told the Myanmar-language Interview Journal.

“We did all we could to save them. They were kept in an air-conditioned room, but their livers could not accept human milk,” he said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7824645/

[fleabert]

1. That's sad.

good for them to try.

[truthisfreedom]

2. musta gotten the idea from Tori Amos. [warning: image]

[fleabert]

3. that is very interesting. odd. but interesting. nt

[Vektor]

4. Terribly sad...

I guess the lady didn't know that they could not digest human milk? Poor little things.