The National Tiger Sanctuary is a nonprofit rescue in Saddlebrooke, just outside Branson — home to more than 80 rescued animals, most of them big cats. Its page is built from the two strongest behind-the-scenes films in the catalog.
Behind the scenes
Manager Brian Jones walks Branson Shenanigans through the sanctuary in two parts. Part one: Truman, the 625-pound tiger renamed for the University of Missouri vet school the sanctuary works with; a black leopard (a 'panther' is a coat, not a species); a tigon; wolves and an arctic fox. Part two is the white tigers — Dakar and Bashir — with leucism explained: white tigers are not albinos, and every captive white tiger descends from Mohan, captured in 1951. The feeding math: roughly 10 pounds of meat a day in summer, 14 in winter.
The sanctuary's own films
The sanctuary's web series closes its white-tiger run with Bashir, rescued from the circus in 2017. A family visit film shows the public tour, feedings included. And an intern's two-month video diary shows the working sanctuary — running tours, learning diets, cleaning habitats — the program that mixes guest services with real animal care.
Sources: the 5 videos on this page. The sanctuary's own channel is mostly livestream archives, which this site excludes; these five are the substantive record.
Watch: National Tiger Sanctuary, guided
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