The Trouble with America’s Captive Tigers
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National Geographic
4.5 • 10.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:33.2 | Nothing would have prepared me for what we actually saw. Even before we go in. So we start |
| 0:38.7 | driving towards South Mertle Beach and we're driving through this suburban neighborhood where there's |
| 0:45.8 | families and your typical suburban American neighborhood. And the whole time I'm thinking, |
| 0:51.9 | do these people know that there are dozens of tigers living right next to them? |
| 0:56.7 | This is journalist Mariana VanZeller. In 2019 she was producing a story about tiger tourism |
| 1:03.1 | for a National Geographic Channel show called Traffic. Her reporting letter to Mertle Beach Safari. |
| 1:08.8 | It's a wildlife attraction also known as tigers and it's run by one of the biggest captive |
| 1:13.6 | tiger breeders in America, Doc Antel. He currently owns his has-owned actually since 1983, |
| 1:20.5 | this sort of 50 acre property in Mertle Beach, South Carolina called tigers. |
| 1:28.2 | Good morning! Welcome to Tigers. This is the Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species. |
| 1:35.2 | Hey, it is our great pleasure to welcome you to our home. You heard that right? This is where we live |
| 1:40.5 | with over a hundred amazing animal ambassadors. It's basically a park, a safari park essentially, |
| 1:45.8 | where people can go and visit all these wild animals. And he has an array of, you know, |
| 1:51.2 | dozens of tigers and chimpanzees and a very famous now elephant called bubbles that he |
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