fuckyeahbigcats:

I’m sure you’ve seen the images of a tiger nursing piglets that has been floating around the internet for years. The usual accompanying story involves a distraught tigress adopting the pigs at some nameless zoo in California.

The photos were actually taken at Sriracha tiger Zoo in Thailand, where this kind of inter-species mingling is in fact a bizarre tourist attraction.

Other “attractions” at the Srirarcha Tiger Zoo include having your photo taken with a declawed tiger cub, orangutans dressed in human clothing, or a hatchling crocodile straight from the egg. There are also circus style shows of the most archaic and appalling kind - those involving tigers jumping through flaming hoops or elephants walking a tightrope.

To support this absurdity is to also support the illegal wildlife trade  - as the tigers here are commercially bred in huge quantities for export to China, where demand for their body parts remains high.

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(Source: thebigcatblog)