Orphaned Tiger Cubs Fed Using Toy

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Indian park rangers are making use of a cuddly toy tigress to enable three cubs that have been traumatised return to their normal selves following the death of their mother. Recently the cubs were found orphaned and are now quite happily feeding from milk bottles that have been placed inside the stuffed toy.  Midrul Pathak, field director at Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in the central state of Madhya Pradesh says they were initially given goats milk but rejected it because they did not like the human interaction. For the last few days however they have been feeding from synthetic nipples from the toy and their energy levels seem to have increased.

Cubs were found in a terrible condition

The forest rangers have constructed a special enclosure made of twigs, grass and sand for the cubs, so that their natural habitat is mimicked. The cubs were found in a terrible state not long after their mother’s body was discovered near a river in January. Park rangers believe the mother died after brushing against an electric fence, though an investigation is taking place. The rangers reacted very quickly and treated the cubs for dehydration, immediately bringing them back to the enclosure.