Geoffroy Cat Facts
Geoffroy's Cat
Common Name: Geoffroy’s Cat
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata (Vertebrata)
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Felinae (Oncifelis)
Species: geoffroyi
Misc.: Geoffroy’s cats are strong swimmers that regularly enter the water, and have been recorded frequently swimming fast flowing rivers 100 feet wide. Geoffroy’s cats were named after the French naturalist Geoffroy St. Hilaire.
Sub-species:
F.g. geoffroyi
F.g. salinarum (once believed to be a separate species)
F.g. paraguae
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TJ
Male Siberian/Bengal Tiger Hybrid
DOB 1999
TJ is the youngest of the four tigers and has the personality to prove it. He is more playful than the rest and loves to crash through all of the high grasses in his enclosure. TJ was rescued from Savage Kingdom.
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Listen in as Scott Lope introduces viewers to TJ the tiger! TJ was rescued in 2007 from a breeding facility that was shut down after someone was killed by a tiger there. He as quickly become a favorite cat for volunteers, staff and visitors
SASHA
Lioness
DOB 5/12/94
Rescued 10/21/07
Sasha has been declawed (and very badly, at that) and defanged) so she struggles to eat.
We provide a soft diet for her, but without her teeth it is hard to hold the food and even hard to contain her tongue.
You will often see her with her tongue hanging out as a result.
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A Lion Pride of a Different Stripe
It took the combined efforts of USDA, undercover
NIKITA
Male Siberian Tiger
DOB 8/20/95
Rescued 10/21/07
Nik, short for Nikita, is a very large tiger comparable in size to the massive Shere Khan. He is very shy and spends most of his time napping in the doorway to his large cave-like den. His best friend in the whole world is Joseph the lion and the two often lounge near one another always surveying their land. When Nik first arrived, he was very elusive and would often hide in his den when keepers approached his enclosure. Gradually he became 




