Patchy regulation has allowed a persistent subculture of trading and private ownership.
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Another excellent, extremely detailed article about the disturbing nature of tiger exploiters/breeders like Joe Exotic.
There’s something indescribable about watching a tiger on the move. They don’t just walk. They slink, and they do everything on their schedule. "They are just essentially large house cat," said Jenna Schmidt, carnivore keeper at the Tulsa Zoo. "You know at home when you try to make your house cat do something, how well that goes? Take that and times it by 20. "That’s what makes it all the more astonishing when you see Schmidt and the tigers doing their training.
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Hundreds of big cat farms continue operating in Africa and Asia.
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Operation Thunderball spanned 109 countries and resulted in more than 1,800 seizures of primates, big cats, reptiles and other creatures.
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Culpepper & Merriweather Circus’s notoriously awful history is in the public record. After finding that the circus “willfully failed to develop a plan of veterinary care” and endangered the health and development of
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While subject to some debate in the scientific community, it is generally accepted that there are nine subspecies of tiger: Amur, Bali, Bengal, Caspian, Indochinese, Javan, Malayan, South China and…
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Outdoor Life survival expert Rich Johnson on how to best avoid becoming lunch from the most common animals that threaten humans in the woods, and provides tips on how to choose the right survival gun for your protection.
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The managers faced a major backlash on social media.
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A 10-year-old African lion at the Pittsburgh Zoo has died after he suffered a grand mal seizure, zoo veterinarians announced on Wednesday.
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