Forwarded to me by my son:

Woman breastfeeding tiger cubs in Myanmar
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-04-04 13:28 from The China Daily

YANGO - A lactating woman in Myanmar has volunteered to breastfeed a pair
of endangered Bengal tiger cubs recently born at a Yangon zoo and
separated from their aggressive mother. 

The two-week-old cubs, a male and a female, were taken from their mother
Noah Noah after she killed the third cub in her litter, prompting
veterinarians to engage in alternative childcare, the semi-official
Myanmar Times weekly reported in its edition to be published Monday.

Hla Htay, 40, a relative of a Yangon Zoological Gardens staffer and a
mother of three including a seven-month-old baby, stepped in when she
learned the cubs needed breast milk to survive.

"I felt sorry for them so I decided to feed them before their teeth
grow," she told the newspaper.

The cubs were the first born at the zoo for 16 years. Veterinarian Kyaw
Myo Hlaing said they were being bottle-fed along with Hla Htay's
half-hour breastfeeding sessions four times a day, the report said.

The cubs are to go on public display in two month's time.

Noah Noah and her mate were among two pairs of tigers sent from Thailand
under an animal exchange program in 2001.

One year ago Myanmar's military government created the world's largest
tiger reserve to protect its big cats, 250 of which remain in the wild.

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...and you thought you had problems when the kid decided to latch on
aggressively...


Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio USA

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