“'People ask, how many tigers are kept in Germany? And the answer is: we don’t know,' Mueller told me. “Which is not a good answer if someone asks how many tigers are there somewhere.'”

The tiger queen, the mauling and a German town on edge
When a privately owned 300kg tiger attacked one of its keepers before escaping into a residential town, police had no option but to shoot it dead. But that was just the start of the story…
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