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GratuaCuun
Zoos have banked on this by giving various big cat cubs that have been dumped to tiger moms to raise them
meganical
This is VERY surprising because tigers, like all big cats except the freak lions, are solitary creatures. Still, the mothering instinct is strong in mammals.
HighSorcerer
BBC put up a video about it a few days ago, it's a good watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQFXaoT8QWo
4chanrefugee
Lol new meaning to „Tiger Mom“
LadyCritCat
I love tigers so much 🥰🐅
Fanner50
Notch out of his left ear.
Must be a rescue
Turbosword123
I initially read the end of that as “aren’t biologically tigers” and I was very confused till I double checked.
IWantToHugEveryCat
bambinod
That'll happen when a population gets critically endangered, survival of the individual's line means nothing if the species dies out. Also looked at from a slightly different angle, raising someone else's cubs increases the chances that the cubs you DO have won't wreck your bloodline by being forced to inbreed due to lack of other available lines.
Twinklepot
Apparently when a male lion achieves dominance over a pride and has kicked the previous guy out he will then kill any cubs remaining in the pride. The females immediately go into heat and subsequently have more cubs by the more dominant male. This keeps the strongest genes intact and removes further competition down the line.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
A lot of animals do this btw, including mountain gorillas when a new silverback takes over a group. Imagine being as emotionally intelligent as a human and smart enough to use simple tools and learn sign language, and then you have to get along with the guy who killed your children. What's worse, eventually it's mating season and your instincts take over, and he's the only male far and wide so nature takes its course even though you hate this individual with a burning passion. Nature is horrible
TrainsDeluxe
https://tauriqmoosa.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/vetinary-evil-moral/
FatAliGuitar
Doing a chronological read of the series now. Such a great character.
Twinklepot
Brutal!
Subwayfootlong3
It could be caused by evolutionary pressure. Their numbers decreasing could cause something where they even start caring for orphans. I don't know, but anything is possible when survival is involved.
CNChapeL
I always read that male tigers killing another's cubs was so the female would become more receptive to mating with them. So in this case, them being orphans, there is no incentive to do so.
sirleoiii
It's also possible that this has just been normal and this is the first time we've decided to check on a large enough scale to observe it happening.
Us noticing something for the first time isnt' the same as that thing happening for the first time.
StevieTheAussie
That would suggest that they are aware of the longevity of their species as a whole, outside of their own genes; which as I knew was a trait only humans displayed.
Outside of having empathy for someone unrelated, having knowledge of and concern for the continuation of your species.
WorkerLurker
Maybe, or it could be just that they raise the orphaned cubs because it makes finding decreased numbers of possible unrelated mates easier. Animals shouldn’t be assigned human intentions.
moonshadowkati
"Slime" the young ones?
Subwayfootlong3
Infanticide
RooGryphon
Kill they mean kill. But can't be bothered to say it because they are like soggy wet paper mentally and just can't say what they mean because killing is ... wrong....
UnaccomplishedWatcherImNotaBot
Youth slang. Used by youths
FryingDutchman1969
AgamemnonsMemes
GeminiDreams
I assume, "Kill". Interesting choice of words.
4chanrefugee
Not gonna lie. I kinda like the weird levels of Algo-speak
JustFeedMePieDammit
Maybe they were going for Slay?
HenryLongfellowIII
Unalive seems to be the YT medicine, for now.
cenfou2tout
Some weird Japanese tradition that results in the small tiger getting covered by slime like fluid...
woodworkerf
Like mayonnaise?
cenfou2tout
More like a paranormal encounter with a ghost...
ArcherPointingFromTheComments
Spooky ghost