there are more tigers in cages than in the wild: about 5,500 wild; over 5,000 in the united states alone, thousands more on chinese farms. in south africa about 8,000 lions live on breeding farms, more than twice the country’s wild lions.
method WWF wild tiger estimate; US captive tiger estimates (Nowell 2007, later NGO counts); Born Free / EMS Foundation for south african captive lions.
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