Awesome Pawsome - Tiger Island P5

Documentary special that chronicles the first year of four Bengal tiger cubs -- Sita, Rama, Taj and Sultan. Born at Tiger Island at Dreamworld, on Australia's Gold Coast and raised in captivity to help preserve the species, the program captures the unpredictable moments of their infancy, from birth to feeding, living with their handlers, getting their first bath and even meeting dogs, children and learning to be adult tigers.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• tiger
• documentary
• bengal
• australia
• zoo
• preservation
• endangere

[IBroLLyISePhIrOtH]

i don't know how many times i saw that video but im still watching

[CelticAsian]

Lovely documentary thanks for sharing

[altochock]

Are they going to release them int he wild?

[0901Angela]

una joya el video !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrFartfresh]

Tigers r awesome

[littlesongbird1]

@HenryDavidT Actually they were hoping for a white cub when they bred the mom. One of her parents was white (it was not mentioned in the documentary but it is on articles about the park). But you are right, it is much healthier to breed a white tiger to an orange one than white to white.

[RescueALab08]

i would do anything to be able to live the life these guys are! they are doing amazing work and i pray people can do something now to stop the poaching and killing before it is too late.

[IBroLLyISePhIrOtH]

@CelticAsian

this video is just awsome

[HenryDavidT]

I normally don't commend people on their keeping majestic species who need hundreds of sq.km in the wild to thrive, but I think Tiger Island's folks have found a balance between "tiger education" & entertainment: doing daily active exercises, which tigers have to do in the wild to stay alive & healthy. But most important: they didn't breed for Whites. Mohan being White & his Mate being normal, Taj's Whitness is a simple classical Mendel statistics. That's genetically healthy for the offspring.

[IBroLLyISePhIrOtH]

@HenryDavidT

wow dude that was awsome

[HenryDavidT]

@IBroLLyISePhIrOtH When I recently saw the video of Sultan weighing 200 kilos & white brother Taj weighing 195 kilo... also with Rama, the smallest brother, weighing around their old 16-17 year-old dad Mohan, of 180 kilos ---- with their exquisitely colored sister, Sita, being around 135 kilos --- I was more than impressed. I checked their "tiger programs" and didn't see the FourSome's mother listed, so perhaps she died? Because Mohan, their father, was still active in some recent videos...

[IBroLLyISePhIrOtH]

@HenryDavidT

tears of joy in my eyes watching this majestic video

[HenryDavidT]

If the dad had really wanted take a serious bite out of the cub's head, he would have, could have, done it. In the wild, that's how the adults --- whether they are the dad, mom, aunt or grandmother --- discipline the cubs; they tolerate the cubs only to a certain point, and then they quickly tell them the pestering's over, by biting them harder than usual or take a swipe at them hard enough to send them scurrying away.

[2cool4torr]

luv ths vid