Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

We got so many responses to our question about listener experiences with animal encounters that we made a second episode. Experiences include a woman who touches a tiger’s tail, a man who plays peek-a-boo with a bear and a chance meeting of a herd of elk. WE WANT YOUR STORIES: We’re working on a new slate of episodes that will feature listener stories, and want to hear yours. Tell us about a place you’ve been to that made you instantly feel at home. What made it special? Have you returned there? What sticks out about this place that makes it unique to you? Why does it remind you of home? How does it connect to you? Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message telling us your name and story. Just so you know, our mailbox will cut you off after two minutes, so you may need to call multiple times if your story is long. You can also record a voice memo and email it to us at [email protected]

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0:00.0	Lions, tigers, tigers, and bears.
0:09.0	There aren't that many things in the world that can eat us, but the few that can occupy a big space in our imagination.
0:18.6	A while back we asked you all to share your own animal encounters with us.
0:23.7	We got so many great stories from you
0:25.7	that we cannot fit them all into one episode,
0:28.0	so we made a second.
0:30.4	And today you are going to hear actual stories about a lion, a tiger, and a bear.
0:37.0	Oh my.
0:39.0	But I promise that these stories do not end with well I promise nothing. I'm Dylan Thuris and
0:46.4	this is Atlas Obscura. More about close encounters of the animal kind. After this. This first story comes from listener Marika.
1:15.0	Take it away.
1:17.0	So I used to be a zookeeper at a big cat sanctuary in Washington State.
1:22.0	And I have a lot of great stories about that time, but the one that always
1:24.9	stands out to me is about a large tiger named Caesar. Caesar was not a tiger that everyone could work with.
1:35.5	This was not a tiger that everyone could work with. This was not a cat to mess around with.
1:40.4	As senior keeper is at this zoological training center, my friend and I were allowed to take pictures of the animals behind the scenes.
1:42.8	This is well before cell phones were a thing,
1:44.4	about 20 years ago.
1:46.2	So we go back there with our little film cameras
1:49.2	and in this instance, Caesar was lying in his feeding area right by the gap in the door.
1:56.1	And now there's plenty of room to walk around that gap on the other side of the walkway.
2:03.3	So there's no chance to be dragged under
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