What happened to all the tigers at Joe Exotic?

To avoid legal trouble, Joe Exotic agreed to give up the 19 tigers to the Wild Animal Sanctuary and chose to surrender 20 tigers and three black bears of his own a short time later. Drotar said that Joe Exotic's decision to surrender the other animals came shortly after his husband Travis Maldonado died.



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He was keeping a mixture of lions, tigers, and a rare lion-tiger crossbreed called a liger. Theroux said many of the animals were rescued from private owners who could no longer look after them. Later in the documentary Exotic reveals he has 176 tigers kept at the zoo.

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Thankfully, the 141 Lions, Tigers, & Bears that have been rescued, now live and roam freely inside beautiful large acreage habitats at one of our three accredited sanctuaries.

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And while his alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill Carole was one of the most riveting parts of Tiger King, it was the revelation that Joe killed five of his tigers and buried them in the back of his park that shocked viewers.

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Jeff Lowe of the hit Netflix show Tiger King is relocating to Mexico with his wife Lauren Lowe. Lowe told TMZ he secured a contract to construct a zoo on 35 acres of property between Tulum and Playa del Carmen. He will do so with the help of a longtime friend who already has a small zoo in there.

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There is no evidence of human remains at the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, an animal refuge once owned by Joe Exotic.

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