WASHINGTON - A US-based wild cat conservation organization said Friday it was astonished by photographs showing a wild lioness nursing a baby leopard at a conservation area in Tanzania. They said it was the first evidence they had seen of a wild lioness nursing a leopard cub. The lioness recently gave birth to her own cubs, making her "physiologically primed" to take care of baby cats, he said. The baby leopard is almost exactly the age of her own cubs and physically very similar to them. He said it was possible she has lost her own cubs, and found the leopard cub in her bereaved state.

Source: The China Post July 15, 2017 05:15 UTC