After being locked in an abandoned train carriage in Argentina for 15 years, a family of four rescued Bengal tigers has finally seen the sky above and felt the grass beneath their paws.
International animal welfare group Four Paws was told about the captive “train tigers” in northwestern Argentina’s San Luis province in 2021 after authorities discovered their inadequate living conditions.
And then began the incredible mission to transfer the caged tigers to their new home over 20,000 kilometers (approx. 12,430 miles) away in South Africa.
(Courtesy of Hristo Vladev/Four Paws)
(Courtesy of Hristo Vladev/Four Paws)
In 2007, the now 18-year-old male and the 15-year-old female tigers were dumped by a traveling circus who asked a local farmer to care for the pair temporarily, stated Four Paws in a news release. The circus never came back, and since private ownership of wild animals is illegal in Argentina, the farmer “did not inform the authorities immediately.”
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