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If you can dream it, you can become it."   WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD


Unseen Thailand - Amazing sites at Sriracha Tiger Zoo.  August 24th,  2006


Is truth stranger than fiction.. A very strange show at a Thailand Zoo enthralled visitors as pigs nurse baby tigers and tigers suckle piglets

The new "Unseen Thailand" tourist campaign is uncovering some weird sights that are delighting tourists who are searching for something different.




Tiger cubs and piglets share mum Benjamaj the pig’s milk.
 



How comfortable - a living rug.

 

Although the Sriracha Tiger Zoo is off the beaten track, it is nonetheless quite a famous zoo, with one of the world’s most successful breeding programs for tigers. But breeding tigers is not its only agenda. Entertaining and fascinating shows are what really bring in the crowds of visitors to this unique zoo.

Visitors recently witnessed some bizarre feeding habits of the zoo’s most famous inhabitants. A two-year-old female pig named Benjamaj is a blended pedigree of parents, Land-Less and Las-White, that were imported from Norway. Benjamaj is a kind and maternal porky. She has taken 4 baby tigers under her care and along with 3 tiny piglets is nursing the tigers as though she were their mum. She loves those cats and they love her back.

In the wild, pigs would ordinarily be easy prey for tigers. But the Sriracha Tiger Zoo has a reputation for accomplishing the impossible, and creating successful relationships with animals of different species is right up their alley.



Momma tiger Saimai says,
"These are my ‘kids’ - don’t even think about making bacon out of them! Grrrr."
 

Unbelieving, wide-eyed tourists pressed their noses up to the cage to get a better look. As they moved on to the next cage they were in for another surprise, as there, a great Royal Bengal tigress was lolling on her side and suckling 6 tiny piglets.

‘Momma’ tiger Saimai is two years old and as a baby was suckled by a pig until she was 4 months old. This democratic start in life allowed her to form a loving relationship with other pigs and even a dog. Food in the wild, maybe - but at the zoo, tourists who witness these amazing scenes come away with food for thought.

This is living proof that under certain circumstances differences in life don’t have to create friction. Surely the Sriracha Tiger Zoo is sending a message to us Homo sapiens that we can also live in peace and harmony.

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Enjoy this issue of The Maverick Spirit...  That's it for today, until next time, continue to enjoy being a free spirit in a complicated world... 

Wayne Mansfield

P.S. Did you know that the first Australian Aboriginal word in the English language was "kangaroo" and was used by Captain James Cook. The original spelling was "kanguroo". The mining town of Coober Pedy in Australia got it's name from the local Aboriginals. It means something like "White fella down a hole".


P.P.S. The Australian 'Jindalee Over-The-Horizon Radar' can both detect aircraft & ships well past the line-of-sight horizon (unlike a conventional radar, which can only detect objects it can 'see' directly) and the otherwise undetectable US Air Force's 'Stealth' fighters & bombers.

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