hand? tiger trail. here at the san diego zoo safari park, there are over 300 different species. look, look, look there. there s a tiger. do you see it? yeah. including the sumatrin tiger. it s coming towards us. come here. can you make that noise? over the last 30 years the zoo has carefully bred and raised the tigers to help presearrve t subspecies on the brink of extinction. this is called its habitat. this is where it lives where s it s house? in there. according to the wildlife federation, the number of tigers in the wild dropped but in america there is as many as
enforcement arrives to shut down the zoo. coming in with a court order for ya. you know me. we re going to have problems. all of these greedy ass people. i have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of animals they re coming to steal. what you don t get to see in the episode is what happened next. right behind law enforcement, the rescue team from eureka springs, arkansas rolls in and document everything as they get to work. it s okay, baby. we have a couple cats loaded and one sedated and loaded and we can do a full health check on them and then we ll have two more to go. after an almost 12-thhour dre to arkansas, four lions and four tigers arrive here. the wildlife refuge. their new home.
cross breeding and inbreeding can create these anomalies and physical problems. this is luna. like all other white tigers, she, took into co is a product inbreeding. today the staff is loading her up for a special trip. lieuuna was acquired from th road side zoo from joe exotic when she was one-week-old. she was use in swim and petting encounters. in 2020 luna was rescued and brought here by brittany. white tigers are especially valuable in the cub petting industry because of their novelty, because of the inbreeding, white tigers also have very high incidents of genetic abnormalities and birth defects. luna is getting her annual physical. but first, she needs to go to sleep. all right, guys, poking.
animals were liberated from a zoo in colorado. now we re good. now we re good. some animals were in terrible shape. these are three tiger cubs from the colorado rescue that couldn t walk. oh, look at these guys. this is black fire, paton. i have a friend. good morning. they had such severe bone disease, their bones were just riddled with fractures. when we rescued them, they were about 4 months old. this happens a lot in these petting mplaces. they take them from their moms and they re not getting the proper calcium. they were limping and could barely walk and just dragging themselves around by their front arms screaming with pain every time they tried to move. they just had all their limbs