It is an interesting but little-known fact that although there are only about 5,000 tigers remaining in the wild, there are over 15,000 in captivity in North America, many of them in private homes.
Well, there’s one less in New York recently:
U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein dismissed a lawsuit brought by Antoine Yates, whom authorities discovered in 2003 was hiding a 10-foot-long tiger named “Ming” and a 6-foot alligator called “Al” inside his fifth floor apartment.
Yates, who was mauled and hospitalized by the tiger he had raised since it was a cub, claimed his constitutional rights had been violated by police searches.