Word: sriracha
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Welcome to the World's Largest Tiger Farm,'' says the green-and-blue sign outside Somphong Temsiriphong's new zoo. The Sriracha Farm Zoo and Resort Co. is certainly a breed apart. Down a country road 2 1/2 hours from the roar of Bangkok traffic, the private reserve is home to an eclectic collection of wallabies, deer, camels and 20,000 Asian crocodiles. But the budding zookeeper's pride--and the source of considerable controversy among conservationists around the world--is his menagerie of 35 hybrid Asian tigers. ``Some of these animals are becoming extinct, and I want to have...
Meanwhile, the Sriracha Farm Zoo and Resort Co. keeps expanding. Somphong hopes to earn millions of dollars from legal trade in crocodile skins and crocodile meat, which he claims is the best to be found in Thailand. He wants his tiger population to swell to 200 within a couple of years, and has opened a petting area for tiger cubs, which at three months old cuddle like house cats. The nagging question, says Leonie Vejjajiva, a founder of the Wild Animal Rescue Foundation of Thailand, is whether a petting zoo--the feeding costs alone come...
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