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I have revisited this story due to it being a popular post on my site but I realised that since I moved my blog over to my new website, that the pictures and videos just got lost in cyberspace. I’m sorry to those of you who have read this post with no visuals or proper links. Below is the original story plus some new information I recently found out about this whole surrogecy family which makes a lot more sense.

A Bengal tiger has been charming visitors to a Thai zoo for nearly four years, tending to generations of playful piglets as if they were her own. Six-year-old Bengal tiger Saimai is matriarch to an extraordinary family unit. She has been caring for adopted groups of mischievous piglets at the Sriracha Zoo near Bangkok, Thailand, since she was two years old.

“First we took the piglets away from their mother, then we left them with the tiger, and straight away they ran to the tiger mother, thinking that it was their mother,” Saimai’s trainer, Samit Krajangpoh, told Metro.

“They were searching for breast milk from Saimai.” Her latest batch of piglets wear little tiger fur coats, while one even sports a red bowtie. The piglets when not feeding and resting are most fond of sparring playfully with each other.

I had my doubts about the piglets wearing the tiger vests but now it all makes sense due to the mother tiger’s depression. I just wish that the media, in releasing this story had mentioned all the “true” details.

Here is a video of this unusual family, courtesy of benderxrd2

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