Posted By: romey on 2007-12-28
In Reply to: Well, tigers in zoos now never knew life in wild and - could not survive there after generations of zoo l

Just because you grew up in a cage, does not mean you want to live out your life in one. And of course they cannot live in the wild after a life of captivity. The whole situation is just very sad for the big cats, that is all.

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