Woman breastfeeds newborn tiger cubs
By Sebastien Berger, South East Asia Correspondent
(Filed: 04/04/2005)
A Burmese woman is breastfeeding two tiger cubs at a
zoo in Rangoon after
they were removed from their aggressive mother.
Hla Htay, 40, who has three children, the youngest
seven months old, offered
her services after the Bengal tiger cubs' mother, Noah
Noah, killed the
third member of her litter.
The two others, a male and a female, were taken from
her and now receive
bottle feeds as well as Hla Htay's milk four times a
day.
"I felt sorry for them so I decided to feed them
before their teeth grow,"
she told the Myanmar Times, a privately-owned
English-language paper in the
capital.
The cubs were born at the Rangoon zoo a fortnight ago,
the first there for
16 years. The Bengal tiger, Panthera tigris, is listed
as endangered on the
World Conservation Union's red list, with the global
population estimated at
fewer than 2,500.
A tenth of them live in Burma, where they are under
threat from poachers
seeking to feed markets for traditional medicines and
trophies.
Big cat skins are easily obtained at markets on the
Thai-Burmese border,
with snow leopards the most commonly available.
Dealers say that tiger parts
are becoming more expensive and hard to obtain because
of their dwindling
supply.
Noah Noah and her mate were one of two pairs of tigers
sent to the zoo from
Thailand four years ago as part of an animal exchange.
London Telegraph
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