Tiger Cubs Raised At Home : Like any curious kitten, Rajpur investigates closet and is confronted with supply of milk. After looking, he reached up, gently knocked a few cans over. Jenny, a tigress at the New York Zoological Park in the Bronx, recently had three cubs. They weighed 2 1/2 pounds each, were 20 inches long from nose to tail tip and, quite naturally, were helpless as kittens. Because Bengal tigers in captivity often refuse to nurse their young, Mrs. Fred Martini, a lion-keeper's wife, took the cubs home and raised them. The job kept her busy. When not feeding them their three-hourly bottles of milk, Mrs. Martini is cleaning them, or putting drops in their eyes, or playing with them. The cubs are quite tame and playful, will get rough when they go on a meat diet. September 23, 1944. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Pix Incorporated).