Two Siberian tiger cubs that were left behind by their mother in Russia have discovered an odd wet nurse in the form of Cleopatra, a wrinkled Shar Pei dog.
The cubs were born in a zoo at the Oktyabrsky health resort in Sochi, a city on the Black Sea, in late May.
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According to zoo assistant director Viktoria Kudlayeva, the dog has been feeding and cleaning the cubs as if they were her own.
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The cubs, Clyopa and Plyusha, are also being fed goat’s milk. Clyopa is named after their adopted mother.
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Less than 400 wild Siberian tigers, also known as Ussuri, Amur, or Manchurian tigers, still exist today, the majority of them in Russia’s Far East.
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