Easy Tiger....

Have any of you read the article or news report about the bengal tigers that were being breast fed from a woman? Does this sound as strange to you as it is to me? Apparently there were some baby tigers somewhere in Burma at the zoo that were being shunned by their mother and not fed. So a woman who was a relative of a zoo worker who had a seven month old baby said she would nurse the tiger cubs. She had been doing this for 6 weeks when the tigers died from dehydration. The article said that their livers couldn't handle the human milk.
Is it me or does this seem sort of strange that they would try to breast feed a tiger cub from a womans breast when there are numerous accounts of tiger cubs being saved using other milk and coming froma bottle..... Weird....