Tiger King star Joe Exotic wanted to bring back the extinct saber-toothed species by forcing his animals to mate across species.His obsession with freakish ligers – tiger and lion hybrids – is known, but he also dreamt his breeding experiments would one day recreate the Ice Age predator.The former zoo owner said: "I started out hybriding off of just the idea they all came from one cat – that was the saber-toothed tiger."So I built a little continent of my own here, put lions on one side and tigers on the other."And lo and behold they bred and that is how I got my first ligers.
We are the first in America."The telly star also falsely claimed he worked with genetics experts at Texas A&M University, who backed his creepy plans to engineer the.
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