Dog becomes surrogate mother to liger cubs

Two liger cubs - a cross between a male lion and a female tiger - are being nursed by a dog at a zoo in Weihai, eastern China.



Four cubs were born at the Xixiakou Wildlife Zoo earlier this month but only two survived.

The mother stopped feeding the cubs after a few days so the dog, which had recently had its own puppies, was enlisted to help.


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Zoo spokesman Cong Wen said it was not clear why the tiger had stopped feeding her cubs. But she said that after some initial problems, the pair were feeding well from their canine stepmother.