Rare tiger eats 3 of 4 cubs

[CJay8]

OK, I'm gonna go out on a limb here, "Gee, maybe that's why they're rare." Sorry, someone had to say it.

On a happier note, I get to climb aboard the Freedom Bird and return to the US in about 5 hours. Should be back in Memphis by 5 pm tonight. I told my Pleasure Unit the second loudest sound she's gonna hear when I get home is the sound of my bag hitting the floor.


http://www.peopleforum.cn/attachments/month_1006/20100610_8a800776e11bf7e852a8VG46ri4DtWUo.jpg

A Siberian tiger in a central China zoo has eaten three of her own cubs days after they were born.


The tiger named Xiuxiu gave birth to four cubs on May 28, and keepers moved the new mom and her babies to a private cage screened with curtains in Wuhan City Zoo, China National Radio reported today.\


But on June 2, keepers found the first tiger cub missing. Though security was immediately enhanced, two more cubs went missing without anyone seeing or hearing anything strange in the cage.


Zoo engineer Du Youshun said he found bloodstains in the cage. He said it was normal for tigers to eat their babies when they felt they couldn't feed so many cubs.


Du said it was also possible that the cubs smelled like humans and the mother just followed her predatory instinct to eat anything that smelled foreign. Tigers will kill any cubs that are not their own if they can, and usually eat them to reduce competition, he added.


The remaining cub was moved from the cage to avoid more tragedy. A dog has now adopted it as its foster mother.

[willie pete]

I think it's fairly common among cats, also dogs, I can remember when a neighbor's german shepard had pups, she ate a couple of them....

[CJay8]

I think it's fairly common among cats, also dogs, I can remember when a neighbor's german shepard had pups, she ate a couple of them....


Yes, I guess it's a shame a certain breed of people don't do the same thing.

[willie pete]

I think it's fairly common among cats, also dogs, I can remember when a neighbor's german shepard had pups, she ate a couple of them....


Yes, I guess it's a shame a certain breed of people don't do the same thing.



Some of them do, you've never heard of ghetto lobster? :lol

[CJay8]

I think it's fairly common among cats, also dogs, I can remember when a neighbor's german shepard had pups, she ate a couple of them....


Yes, I guess it's a shame a certain breed of people don't do the same thing.



Some of them do, you've never heard of ghetto lobster? :lol


Now that's funny, I don't care who ya are...

[keehah]

http://www.nationalpost.com/Vancouver+woman+charged+with+murdering+babies/3103291/story.html

Canwest News Service · Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2010

VANCOUVER — A 25-year-old Vancouver woman has been charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of two newborn babies.

Sarah Jee-Wah Leung, who lives with her family in East Vancouver, was charged Tuesday, according to provincial court records.

She faces one count of murder related to a death on April 2, 2009, and a second count related to a death on March 29, the court records state.

Just after each of those dates, Vancouver police were called to the family’s Charles Street home in connection with the suspected deaths of infants.

Last year, police found what appeared to be a full-term baby boy wrapped in plastic between the Leungs’ home and that of a neighbour.

This past March, Vancouver police announced they had been called back to the house a second time in connection with the suspected birth of another child that was missing and presumed dead. They said at the time they might search a dump in Delta, B.C., for the child’s remains, but later announced that search would not go ahead...

The crime of infanticide, where a mother kills a newborn child, is Section 233 of the Criminal Code and carries a maximum sentence of just five years because it factors in the mother’s physical and mental health after giving birth.