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Rangers at the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in India crafted a fake tiger that was fitted with synthetic nipples and a milk bottle to feed three orphaned cubs.

Handlers say the litter of rescued baby tigers wasn’t eating, so employees tried a toy and things immediately changed for the better.

The “dummy mummy” mimics what the cubs would have done in their natural habitat: feed off their mother for milk.

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