Myrtle Beach Safari — the T.I.G.E.R.S. preserve, The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species — is a guided-tour-only operation: visitors walk 50 acres with the team who live on site among more than 100 animal ambassadors. A necessary honesty note that the lead film states itself: Safari footage is hosted media footage, filmed on hosted visits — encounters this close are the product being sold, and the page presents the preserve in its own terms.

Jay Prehistoric Pets Visits Myrtle Beach Safari!

Myrtle Beach Safari

Reptile YouTuber Jay Brewer (Jay Prehistoric Pets) brings his daughters for a full day at Myrtle Beach Safari, and the preserve's own film of the visit is the most complete look at the experience: a welcome from the T.I.G.E.R.S. team — The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species — who live on site with more than 100 animal ambassadors, then encounter after encounter. Like all Safari footage, this is a hosted media visit: guests on the Wild Encounters Tour don't film — the preserve's photographers document it, and the flood of photos is part of what Jay raves about.

Key takeaways
  • T.I.G.E.R.S. = The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species
  • 100+ animal ambassadors live at the preserve with the Antle family team
  • Guest cameras stay away on tour — the preserve's own photographers shoot your visit

Walking 900 Pound Liger with Jay Prehistoric Pets | Myrtle Beach Safari

Myrtle Beach Safari

Jay Brewer walks with the preserve's liger — a lion-tiger hybrid of roughly 900 pounds, among the largest in the world — while the handlers talk through what a liger actually is and why the animal sparks the arguments it does. Filmed on the preserve's grounds with the apes and big cats around them.

Key takeaways
  • The liger weighs about 900 lb — among the largest anywhere
  • Handlers address the liger debate head-on in the film
  • Filmed during a hosted visit to the preserve

Kody Antle Walks With A 600 Pound Tiger! | Myrtle Beach Safari

Myrtle Beach Safari

Kody Antle walks a 600-pound tiger on the preserve and turns it into a field lesson: the fully retractable claw that pops out 'like a switchblade' on a tendon strong enough to hold the tiger's own weight, and the paw pad that stays soft like a kitten's. The tiger is five years old and, in Kody's words, still a cub at heart. Up-close anatomy you can't get from a tour path.

Key takeaways
  • A 600-pound tiger, walked and examined claw by claw
  • Tiger claws are fully retractable and ride on a tendon rated for the cat's full weight
  • The preserve films its own animals — guest tours are camera-free

The encounters

Reptile YouTuber Jay Brewer's full-day visit is the most complete look: welcome from the T.I.G.E.R.S. team, then encounter after encounter. His second film walks the preserve's liger — a lion-tiger hybrid of roughly 900 pounds, among the largest in the world — while handlers explain what a liger is and why the animal sparks the arguments it does. Kody Antle's tiger walk turns into a field lesson: the fully retractable claw that pops out 'like a switchblade' on a tendon strong enough to hold the tiger's own 600 pounds, and a paw pad that stays soft like a kitten's.

The facts and the case

The CVB's overview supplies the structure: a guided Wild Encounters Tour meeting tigers, wolves, leopards and chimpanzees; over 60 big cats, trained falcons, Bubbles the elephant and the liger; tours running March through October. The conservation film makes the Rare Species Fund's argument — mountain gorillas, about 900 left where Rwanda, Uganda and Congo meet, survive only if surrounding communities share in the work. The closing film is the preserve at its most vulnerable: the October 2015 'thousand-year flood' moving through its grounds.

Sources: the 6 videos on this page, from the preserve's own channels and Visit Myrtle Beach.

Watch: Myrtle Beach Safari, guided

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

T.I.G.E.R.S. Myrtle Beach Safari

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Visit Myrtle Beach's overview of T.I.G.E.R.S. Myrtle Beach Safari, from a lifelong local who calls it one of the most remarkable things he's ever seen. The facts: a guided Wild Encounters Tour walking 50 acres of preserve to meet tigers, wolves, leopards and chimpanzees; a preserve home to over 60 big cats, trained falcons, Bubbles the elephant and a liger; tours running March through October.

Key takeaways
  • Wild Encounters Tour: guided walk through 50 acres
  • 60+ big cats, plus Bubbles the elephant and a liger
  • Tours run March through October

Gorilla Conservation With Rare Species Fund Takes a Community

Myrtle Beach Safari

The conservation case behind the preserve, from its Rare Species Fund: mountain gorillas — about 900 left, in the one corner of Africa where Rwanda, Uganda and Congo meet — survive only if the communities around them are part of the work. The film argues conservation is politics and people, not just animals, and connects the Fund's field work to the tigers at home, a few thousand of which remain in the wild.

Key takeaways
  • Rare Species Fund backs field conservation, including mountain gorilla work
  • About 900 mountain gorillas remain in the wild (as filmed)
  • Conservation framed as community work, not fences

1000 Year Flood At the Myrtle Beach Safari

Myrtle Beach Safari

The preserve under water: footage from the October 2015 'thousand-year flood' that swamped coastal South Carolina, showing the Safari's grounds, enclosures and animals in the deluge. A document of the place at its most vulnerable rather than a tour. Loaded as watch content — the film has no narration track.

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