Jungle Book in reverse | Watch: When three tiger cubs who lost their mother were 'adopted' by a soft toy

In Rudyard Kipling's epic classic The Jungle Book, a human baby named Mowgli was adopted by a wolf pack and raised in the world. Meanwhile, in a remarkable retelling of that classic, three tiger cubs, who lost their mother were helped by officials to 'adopt' a soft toy as their 'mother'. Officials at the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, managed to come to the rescue of the orphaned tiger cubs whose mother had died on January 19 due to electrocution at the Sanjay National Park in Madhya Pradesh. Thinking out-of-the box, the forest officials used a large soft toy tiger to help acclimatise the cubs and make them believe they were interacting with their mother.

The officials fitted the tiger soft toy with a hidden milk bottle and synthetic nipples, a procedure used in rural areas where a dummy calf is placed next to a cow who stops giving milk due to mourning. The officials also brought in grass, stool and urine of their mother from the Sanjay National park and rubbed it on the toy, which helped mimic the feeling of motherly love for the cubs.

Check out the amazing videos below:

Part 1: The cubs get acclimatized​ to the toy 

Part 2: Officials train the cubs to suckle from the teats 

Part 3: Final adoption


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