She's just making sure that when she eats them, they're full of that bacony goodness.

/IT'S BACON!

Tigers can eat their young anyway, so this might still be business as usual.

At least thats what I learned from Rodney Dangerfield.

okay. this is cute enough to melt even my neanderthal heart.

labman: I'd love too hear the story behind that one.

snopes

This didn't farking go green! Noooo!

I can't believe people still believe this

Well, the pictures are still cute at least... :/


//

Blast, Fark ate half my slashies AND my claims of them being tiger stripes.

I saw that stuff live in NYC, back when the peep shows were still on 42nd st...

That's just so wrong...

/the true story
//pics are farkin' adorable

Damnit, now I want bacon.


Wait, I always want bacon.

Huh. You'd think the tiger would just eat the pig without even thinking twice. Stupid tigers. Don't they know that pigs are made of bacon?

Megain

Good one.

Jument

Huh. You'd think the tiger would just eat the pig without even thinking twice. Stupid tigers. Don't they know that pigs are made of bacon?

And tigers are made of medicine?

Chinese and cats!

im in my cage, planning my meelz...

which came first: the pig? or bacon?

/mmmmmmmmmm

Jr. Bacons

"A mother tiger, whose cubs passed away, adopted a litter of piglets."

No, no - I only eat tuna.

isnt this a repeat?

/too lazy to do a search
//actually doing real work and just on fark to procrastinate

I have seen the pics before. Probably here

Aquaticflash: "A mother tiger, whose cubs passed away, adopted a litter of piglets."


Nope. Read the snopes link posted earlier.

It's something done by a zoo in Thailand for entertainment. The tiger in the pics was itself nursed by a pig.

I'm pretty sure these pictures have been posted 62 times in the past two years. It's not de ja vu, it's Fark!

Ta siu!

A gentile tigress? Who knew?

Oh man...a bacon thread.

hear that delicious sizzle sizzle?

Mark my words, this will end badly. Mark my words.

The images displayed above were taken in 2004 at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand.

That tiger is just waiting some of that tasty hot sauce to go with his ham.

/nuthin

Chariset: I wonder what keeps the switch in Mommy Tiger's brain flipped to the 'child' side and not the 'food' side

I dunno, but I have this feeling in my gut thats tellin me that switch'll flip to its normal position during a 3rd grade field trip to the zoo.

Nature is awsome.

IT allways finds away to take care of its self.


Some how, like magic , This Tigeer KNOWS that it has to let those pig grow up before it eats them all.

maybe i should fly to thailand and drop in the cage some pork sausages and see what happens..

Haven't you heard of raising your own food?

I wonder how many piglets they went through before they found a tiger that was a vegetarian?

Megain: labman: I'd love too hear the story behind that one.

snopes


Mmmm, bacon AND Sriracha.

/these are a few of my favorite things
//running low on tasty hot sauce goodness

In the pictures with the piglets, the tigress (?) doesn't seem to be nursing. The last photo with the tiger cub seems to be showing a different animal entirely, one without stripes on its belly. A sow, perhaps?

gee runeytwo, you mean just like it says in the Headline?

I guess we know Rick Romero's login name now!

Baby: the other other white meat.

(oh noes! a br**stf**d*ng picture!)

The true story is actually really sad, so I'm going to just pretend that the false story is the real one.

Three groups of idiots: The people who run this zoo, the people who visit because they find this amusing, and people on this thread who would rather believe something sappy than the truth.

Strange tag actually beats out Sappy in this case.

Lions and tigers and so on can be raised on a diet of vegetables, and still be healthy. There's no biological imperative for them to eat meat, it's more something they learn. And even the ones that do eat meat have been known to adopt other animals as surrogate children.

This is not of course to say that eating meat is bad for you, or wrong, I'm just saying that meat-eating animals don't necessarily have to be meat-eating, and the pictures are legit.

Lions and tigers and so on can be raised on a diet of vegetables, and still be healthy. There's no biological imperative for them to eat meat

go back to school and take biology 101 again, apearantly you failed it, badly

carnivores have a very short digestive track because meat is rich in nutients, and they have a very low tolerance to the toxins ALL plants have to protect themselves from overgrazing. They also have a high metabolism that requires the rich food.

herbivores have a very long digestive tract to extract all the nutrients they need from what they eat, and have a very high tolerance for plant toxins.

you can feed a herbivore meat, and it will survive, though it's digestive tract will get messed up, but if you feed a carnivore plant matter, it's high metabolism will out strip it's ability to keep up with it's caloric intake even grazing continously because it's digestive tract is not made for plant matter, the carnivore will get thin and weak, and die of malnutrition

if you don't believe me, try feeding a cat only veggies... or rather don't I can't bear the thought of an animal suffering just so you can see for yourself that you don't know what the hell you are talking about, instead read a book on biology.