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Tiger King has taken the world by storm. The Netflix series about the Tiger King Zoo owner Joe Exotic and his feud with sanctuary owner Carole Baskin fascinated people across the world. While the …
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In this very first episode of the Fancy Scientist podcast, I talk about the frustrations that I, a wildlife biologist, had about the Netflix docuseries Tiger King. While the series focused on big cat …
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The popularity of Netflix's Tiger King brought important issues about big cats in captivity to the public stage. The biggest claim, perhaps, was that zoos are necessary to conserve big cats in the …
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Netflix's series Tiger King sparked a lot of conversation about tiger conservation and animal welfare, with cub petting being at center stage. Unfortunately, the documentary did not include any …
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EVERYONE has been asking my thoughts on Tiger King. I'm a wildlife biologist with 17 years of experience and a long personal history of doing research on animals in captivity. In fact, because it's …
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Everyone is watching Tiger King! This docuseries on Netflix explores the true crime story between between a tiger breeder and his big cat sanctuary owner rival. As I'm a wildlife biologist, people are …
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