Reaching High
This illustrates one of the ways that the animal keepers at the Houston Zoo try to enrich the lives of their animals. In this case, the keeper is using a meat stick to feed the tiger through the wire mesh. She holds the meat up high in order to get the tiger to rear up on its hind legs, a behavior it would do in the wild. This also illustrates the size of this Malaysian tiger, which weighs about 200 pounds and is much smaller than a Siberian tiger, which can get up to 600 pounds.
Reaching High
This illustrates one of the ways that the animal keepers at the Houston Zoo try to enrich the lives of their animals. In this case, the keeper is using a meat stick to feed the tiger through the wire mesh. She holds the meat up high in order to get the tiger to rear up on its hind legs, a behavior it would do in the wild. This also illustrates the size of this Malaysian tiger, which weighs about 200 pounds and is much smaller than a Siberian tiger, which can get up to 600 pounds.