Tigers

Where are the tigers today?

Great Karoo

Have the tigers been released into the wild

not yet

Dave and John "showed that zoo-born tigers could" do what?

learn to hunt

When the tigers hunt Wildabeast, which tiger chases and drives the herd to the other tiger (male or female) and why?

The female tiger julie does because she is faster

Why was there a real buzz about the success of this project

they were proving the experts wrong

How fast can an ostrich run? And can the tigers keep up?

40mph and yes, they can keep up

How can a 140-pound Ostrich be dangerous to a tiger?

they have a very powerful kick

At this point, Tiger Ron weighed more than how much?

500 pounds

If a tiger is going to charge you, how will they have their body in relation to you?

straight lined to you

Once the tigers learned to kill, what does Dave have to worry about?

the tigers attacking him

According to dave, when you see a tiger in the wild, what do you never do

run

What did Dave have to do for male tiger Ron?

move him off his first kill so he could get the quills out

What was the tigers first kill

porcupine

They finally found a 90,000 acre sanctuary in South Africa that they called what?

Tiger moon

After the tigers chased a park ranger, John and Dave were forced to do what again?

find a new home

The trick about teaching tigers to kill was not becoming what?

the prey themselves

To try to teach Ron and Julie to hunt, what did Dave do with a dead Spring Buck?

mount it to the back of the truck

The plains of Hunter's Moon were difficult because tigers usually hunt in what kind of environment?

dense jungles

What did the floods at Pinda force John and Dave to do?

find a new place to live

When the tigers come across their first zebra carcass, what did they do with it?

play with it

What does Dave Salmoni use as positive reinforcement to train his tigers

meat

John chose Africa because it is the only continent succeeding in doing what?

saving its predators

What country was John Varty taking the tigers to?

South Africa Pinda

The tiger may be extinct in the wild how soon?

another 20 yrs

Tigers share their natural habitat in Asia with how much of the world's population?

more than a fifth of the world population

There are more tigers in captivity than where

in the wild

This was a daring new conservation project to teach zoo-born tigers to do what?

survive in the wild of the africa