The cartel’s hitmen also regularly fed humans to their tigers, in some instances these victims were alive.
The fully grown tigress has already killed a dog and attacked a man walking about a kilometre from the farm, per the Walkerville community policing forum’s Gresham Mandy.
Environmentalists and animal rights experts are alarmed at the number of exotic pets that Gauteng residents are keeping, especially in the East Rand and Johannesburg.
Outside playtime at a Boksburg crèche has been stopped after the owner saw a pair of tigers peering over the fence.
The Seaview Predator Park in Gqeberha has confirmed that one of its employees, David Solomon, was killed yesterday afternoon.
The SPCA is lobbying to have two white tiger cubs moved to a safe sanctuary, from the backyard of a home in Houghton.
If you have an old Calvin Klein perfume bottle lying around, Banham Zoo, in Norfolk, would love to hear from you.
Before you post that Instagram video of your cat, you might want to check out this guy’s YouTube channel. He’s in SA’s top 10 most-viewed, thanks to his big cats.
Who would ever have thought that a tiger would be seen roaming the streets of Africa? Certainly not residents of the east Pretoria area.
Sometimes a family dispute ends in tears, and other times it ends in a tragic death at the hands of a tiger. This would be the latter.
Although tigers are dangerous animals, there is no reason to shoot and kill them.
Aleksandr Pylyshenko, a Ukrainian artist who owns a private zoo in the city of Vasilyevka, plans on living in an enclosure with Katya and Samson, his lions, for five weeks to raise money to improve the zoo’s living conditions and to increase awareness of underfunded private Ukrainian zoos. So that makes sense.