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AP
Mon May 9, 4:36 AM ET

Eleven-month-old Lokman Hakim Mondol, who weighs 22 kilograms (48 pounds) is brought at a hospital by his grandfather Tabarak Mullick, in Calcutta, India, Monday May 9, 2005. His mother, Jnanera Bibi, tries to cool him with a hand fan. Lokman consumes 5 liters of milk and 1 kilogram of rice-flour every day and is suspected to be suffering from a rare hormonal disorder. (AP Photo/Sudipto Das)

 
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AFP
Thu May 12,10:10 AM ET

Mkombozi outside her home in the outskirts of Nairobi. Kenyan police said they had arrested the mother of an infant reportedly rescued by the foraging dog in a forest south of the capital Nairobi.(AFP/File/Simon Maina)

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AFP
Thu May 12,10:10 AM ET

Angel is attended to by a nurse at the Kenyatta hospital in Nairobi. Kenyan police said they had arrested the Angel's mother after the infant was reportedly rescued by a foraging dog in a forest south of the capital Nairobi amid amounting scepticism over the truth of the heartwarming tale.(AFP/File/Tony Karumba)

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AFP
Thu May 12, 9:47 AM ET

Hla Htay breastfeeds a tiger cub in Yangon. Two endangered Bengal tiger cubs breastfed for weeks by a Myanmar woman have died of dehydration.(AFP/File/Law Eh Soe)

 

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Dog Nurses Tiger Cubs in China

Picture: dog nursing tigers

Photograph from China Newsphoto/Reuters/Corbis               More Photos in the News

 


May 9, 2005—Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? The mother of these tiger cubs couldn't produce enough milk, so zookeepers in Hefei, China, enlisted this dog. She began work when the cubs were one day old, on May 2, when this picture was taken. This isn't the first time a dog has played wet nurse to tigers at the Hefei zoo, which organized a similar arrangement with another dog last year.

It may not even be the oddest recent example of cross-species suckling. As of February, India's Namatia Ghosh, 46, was still breastfeeding the pet monkey her husband found orphaned several years ago. "He is my son," she told BBC News. Not to be outdone, Hlah Htay, 40, helped a Burmese zoo feed two tiger cubs in April, according to the AFP news service. The cubs had been separated from their aggressive mother.

Tigers are born toothless. In the wild they nurse for about six months but begin eating meat after six to eight weeks, when the mother begins sharing her kills.

—Ted Chamberlain http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0509_050905_dogtigers.html

 

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