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There’s a good tiger cub, take a little more milk …

This sweet scene played out at the Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo in Thailand, where a chimpanzee helped bottle-feed a 28-day-old tiger cub.

As the young golden tiger got its fill, the chimp patiently held the bottle of milk, often nesting a hand under the cub’s chin. Interspecies love – always adorable!

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母豬為幼虎哺乳

（森美兰‧马口）扮猪吃老虎？还是扮虎吃母猪？都不是，原来是如假包换的母猪为幼虎哺乳。

这罕见的一幕出现在泰国首都曼谷的动物园內，被森州马身新村一对夫妇到那儿观光时看到，立刻以相机拍下这难得一见的画面。

由於今年是庚寅福虎年，母猪为幼虎哺乳这趣怪一幕，成为虎年伊始的奇闻。

拍摄到这一幕的游客黄金莲（49岁）说，她与丈夫在春节期间到曼谷旅游时，顺便到当地的动物园观光，当时他们看到一头大母猪在猪栏里睡午觉，一会儿，一只幼虎拖著蹣跚的步伐，步行到母猪身边伏下身便吮吸猪乳。

她说，幼虎吮吸猪奶时，母猪静静的躺著，任由幼虎吮吸，体现无私的伟大母爱，而小老虎吸了大约5分钟猪奶后，便满足的自行离开。

她说，猪和老虎生活在两个完全不同的世界，猪甚至是老虎粮食链的一环，而母猪却为幼虎哺乳，似有“以德报怨”的胸襟，可就不晓得小老虎长大后，是否还记得当年母猪哺乳之恩，继续能够与母猪和睦相处？

还有一些网上的照片分享（英文）：

Nap time: A piglet and a tiger cub snuggle together at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand (photo from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/)

Rise and shine: The tiger cub yawns and the piglet stretches its little trotter as the pair begin to slowly awaken (photo from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/)

The piglet and cub are blissfully dreaming (photo from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/)

A tiger cub at the zoo with its adoptive mother - a sow (photo from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/)

Suppertime: Two tiger cubs and two piglets feed off a resting sow in its feeding pen (photo from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/)

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Amber Chia's hot PETA Asia-Pacific ad

Chinese-Malaysian cover model and actor Amber Chia (The 3rd Generation, Trio & a Bed) earned her stripes as a friend to animals who are imprisoned in zoos by starring in an eye-catching PETA anti-captivity ad in which the fresh-faced beauty—who has graced the pages of Harper’s Bazaar, FHM, Playboy, and NuYou—poses wearing only painted tiger stripes to bring in the Year of the Tiger. “Tigers, elephants, and chimpanzees aren’t meant to live fenced in any more than I am,” Chia explains. “The born free should stay free.”

Amber Chia for PETA Asia-Pacific

Animals in zoos are sentenced to a lifetime of boredom, loneliness, and abuse. Even the biggest zoos cannot provide the space, exercise, privacy, or mental stimulation that the animals they imprison need, much less fulfill animals’ other complex needs. As a result of their confinement, animals in zoos frequently exhibit neurotic behavior such as constant pacing, head-swaying, and circling. In response to their never-ending frustration, some even resort to self-mutilation and other abnormal and self-destructive behavior.

Make It a Good Year for Tigers! Help Animals in Zoos

Stay away from zoos and animal displays, and encourage other people to do the same. Take our pledge to boycott zoos, and promise never to support any business that profits from the confinement of animals.

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A mother Bengal tiger and her cub rest in the tall grass of a meadow. Tiger cubs remain with their mothers for two to three years before dispersing to find their own territory. Photography by Michael Nichols

The tiger, one of the most magnificent animals in the world, is also one of the most endangered. A cat of beauty, strength, and majesty, the tiger is master of all and subject to none — except humans. Of the eight original subspecies of tigers, three have become extinct within the last 60 years; and there are less than 50 South China tigers left on this planet — few, and possibly none, survive in the wild.

There are five different kinds or subspecies of tiger alive in the world today. These tigers are called Siberian, South China, Indochinese, Bengal, and Sumatran. Their Latin name is Panthera tigris. Tigers are an endangered species; only about 5,000 to 7,400 tigers are left in the wild. Three tiger subspecies, the Bali, Javan, and Caspian tigers have become extinct in the past 70 years.

Poachers are continuing to exterminate the world’s remaining Tigers. New demand across Southeast Asia for the skins, teeth and claws of tigers is endangering much of the great cats, particularly the Sumatran tiger. Currently, the demand for Tiger parts is centered in several parts of Asia where there is a strong market for traditional medicines made from items like tiger bone and body parts. Volumes are sizeable and there has been little enforcement action against poachers and traders.

What Needs to be Done to Save the Tiger:

– Local institutions and people Scientists who were closely involved in managing tigers at the local level, Hemendra Panwar of India and Hemanta Mishra of Nepal, pointed out an important lesson more than a decade ago: unless local community needs are met, conservation of the tiger will not succeed and protected areas will perish. Therefore, conservation programmes must reconcile the interests of people and tigers. In most situations, a sustainable tiger conservation strategy cannot be achieved without the full participation and collective action of individual rural households whose livelihoods depend on rights of access and use of the forests where tigers live.

– Technologies for conservation of resources There already exists a wide range of technologies and practices in forest and watershed management and agriculture, both traditional and new, for conservation of resources. The biological processes that regenerate forests and make agriculture less damaging to tiger habitats take time to become established

– Use of external institutions Institutions, such as NGOs, government departments, and banks, can facilitate processes by which local people develop their sense of ownership and commitment. When little effort is made to build local skills, interest, and capacity, people have no interest or stake in maintaining structures or practices once the incentives for conservation stop. Success hinges on people’s participation in planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, which leads to the formation of new institutions or the strengthening of existing ones

– Conservation of tiger habitat and of prey In many areas peripheral to tiger habitat, grazing lands for livestock have been converted to crops or degraded by excessive use; livestock is of poor quality and of poor productivity; wood for fuel and building has been exhausted; and sources of income are limited. The rehabilitation of the natural resource base of local people is essential if they are not to seek their requirements in protected areas. This requires ecodevelopment with the support and cooperation of specialized government organs and the non-governmental conservation community.

The bodies and heads of the poached tigers in Thailand are displayed. Photo from www.dailymail.co.uk/

Tiger Poaching Ring Busted by Indian Police. Photo from http://current.com

[source: http://www.indiantiger.org/wildlife-conservation/save-tiger.html]

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