Pics from Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand.

First I'd like to say that if you received an email about a California Tigress who adopted some Piglets.....that is completely false. The Pictures were actually taken at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo, near Bangkok. Sriracha Tiger zoo is first opened for tourists on April 23, 1997. It is situated at no. 341 Moo 3, Nongkham Sub-district, Sriracha District, Chonburi Province, with the area of more than 100 acres. The zoo consists of more than 200 Bengal tigers and 100,000 crocodiles. In addition to various kinds of animals, it also provides many activities for tourists to enjoy. As it happens, this sort of intermingling of species is not at all unusual at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo, where "creating successful relationships with animals of different species" is something of a guiding principle. The facility, more accurately described as part zoo and part circus, boasts offbeat attractions like basketball-playing elephants, "lady crocodile wrestlers," and a petting zoo where customers can bottle-feed baby tigers with their own bare hands. Visitors have reported seeing tigers, pigs, and dogs all housed together within the same enclosure, with sows nursing tiger cubs and tigresses nursing piglets "adorned in tiger-print costumes."

The costumes are strictly for show, by the way. The mother tiger pictured above, who has been photographed on other occasions suckling piglets au naturel, was herself nursed by a pig in infancy and apparently regards the other species as family, not prey. (had to put in a picture of the crocodile people too)

I haven't been here, but I thought the concept was pretty cool. I guess their theory is right. If an animal is kept properly fed, you don't have to worry about him/her looking at their playmates as food. :P