SRIRACHA TIGER ZOO TOUR


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ITINERARY
Discover the greatest Tiger Zoo in the entire world. From the moment you stepped in, you can feel the natural atmosphere and watch hundred of tigers in our tiger playground, which will entertain you and your family. Hold the baby tiger in your arms, feeding milk and take a memorable picture. Make some new friends as you pet and feed camels, deers, wallabies, elephants, peruvian guinea pigs, ostriches and especially the baby tigers which were born in the zoo. Happy family - the friendship between tiger, pig and dog and see how they can live together peacefully. In our well-kept, beautifully landscaped gardens, you can quietly stroll among flower beds, enjoying the profuse colours and fragrance of millions of flowers, as well as the well-trained chimpanzees and elephants in the natural surroundings. You can easily spend a whole day in our gardens. Once you get hungry, there are excellent restaurants to choose from, with fresh seafood, Chinese, European, Thai and authentic Korean cuisine on offer.

Company Background
Sriracha Tiger Zoo is opened for tourists on April 23, 1997. It is situated at no. 341 Moo 3, Nongkham Sub-district, Sriracha District, Chonburi Province, with the area of more than 100 acres. The zoo consists of more than 200 Bengal tigers and 100,000 crocodiles. In addition to various kinds of animals, it also provides many activities for tourists to enjoy. Visitors can experience natural touch and enjoy the company of tamed animals closely.

Company Objective
- To conserve wildlife species that are closed to extinction for future generation, such as tiger and some wildlife species.
- To build consciousness for the society to reserve nature and environment, especially among the youth to care and concern for wildlife animals and take part in preserving activities.
- To breed wild animals which are specified by Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES ) that they can be exported.
- To response to the 8th national economy development plan and social by developing quality of life and educating the society on wildlife knowledge.

Show
Amazing Circus At the amazing Circus, you will be amused by tiger shows: jumping through fire loops, walking on a rope and many other shows. In addition, there are bear and chimpanzee shows. The circus can have more than 1,500 visitors per show.
Crocodiles Show We are the first and only place presenting crocodile lady fighters, wrestle the crocodiles with barehand. Seven shows are available daily.
The Bear Show Tourists will be impressed by the intelligence of chimpanzee and bear. You are entertained with these animals playing ball, dancing and riding a bicycle.
Elephant Show Enjoy watching our elephants massaging, dancing, fashion show and playing basketball. You will definitely impress by thier intelligence.

Tiger Education Center
This place consists of nursery, photo taking with tiger cubs corner, tigers with African people and tiger education room.
’Nursery’ Visitors will meet with sow feeding tiger cubs in this room, which is an experiment at Sriracha Tiger Zoo. The sow will feed the newly born cubs after feeding by their own mother for seven days. From the experiment, it is found that the cubs grow 20-25 percent faster then usual when feeding by the sow.
’Photo taking with tiger cubs’ Experience a rare chance of carrying and feeding tiger cubs in your arm and add this memorable picture to your album.
’Tiger education room’ Exhibit valuable information on tiger’s development, species, behavior and a lot more.

Learning about tiger
Tiger is found on earth for more than 2 millions years ago. In the earliest era, tiger has long fang which is called smilodon. Smilodon is the origin of various kinds of tiger today. They are put into 4 categories.
1.1 Panthera: Big size tiger that roar, such as lion, tiger, leopard and jaguar.
1.2 Felis: Small size tiger, such as cat, leopard cat, jungle cat.
1.3 Neofelis: Medium size tiger that cannot roar, and there is only one kind, which is clouded leopard.
1.4 Arsinarnics: Species that cannot keep its claw, and the only species is cheetah, which is the fastest animal on earth.

Tiger
Majority of tigers has similar size and hair color. There are some differences that can be categorized into 8 kinds of subspecies. (IUCN, 1994)
1. Bali tiger * (Panthera tigris balica)
2. Caspian tiger * (Panthera tigris virgata)
3. Indo-Chinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti)
4. Javan tiger * (Panthera tigris sondaica)
5. Royal Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)
6. Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)
7. South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis)
8. Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae)

There are 8 species of tiger, but 3 species have extinct, they are Bali tiger, Caspian tiger and Javan tiger. These tigers are distinguished by size, color and body pattern.

The biggest one is Sumatran tiger and the smallest one is Bali tiger. Tigers that live in the north have lighter hair color than those in the south. For example, Siberian tiger has the lightest hair color, while Bali tiger has the darkest color.

Each subspecies has different stripe and pattern. For example, South China tiger has fewest stripes, while Siberian tiger and Indo-Chinese tiger have the most stripes. Bali tiger, Javan tiger and Sumatran tiger live on island and have the most stripes. Furthermore, some species of tigers have longer hair with different pattern on the body and head size.

At present, Bali tiger, Caspian tiger and Javan tiger have been extinct. Tigers found in Thailand are Indo-Chinese tiger.

Tigers found at Sriracha Tiger Zoo are Royal Bengal tigers. We started breeding tiger since 1989 and are the largest tiger zoo in the world.