Thai zoo housing pigs and tigers together

Apr 9 2009 By Katy Gordon

IT SOUNDS like something out of Winnie The Pooh, but a zoo in Thailand has pigs and tigers living together in harmony.

It’s not Tigger and Piglet, but many animals at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo find themselves sharing their pens with different species.

The zoo, near the popular tourist resort of Pattaya, houses over 400 Bengal tigers and is one of the biggest tiger zoos in the world.

Sriracha Tiger Zoo likes to promote ‘happy families’ made up of different species of animal – and has been known to put tiger cubs with sows and piglets with tiger mums.

This is not the only interesting feature of the zoo. Elephants play basketball and strut their stuff in fashion shows, tigers leap through burning hoops and pigs race against each other.

Story information courtesy of Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1168485/Time-trotter-The-pig-woke-tiger-cage.html