Product Details

• Format: NTSC, Color
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Discovery Communications Inc.
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000HMGQ36
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,394 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A new hope for vanishing tigers in the wild, September 20, 2007

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Kyle Tolle (Phoenix, Arizona USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living with Tigers (DVD)

Fewer than five thousand tigers are left in the wild today and that number drops at an alarming rate each year. This prompted renowned naturalist and filmmaker John Varty to attempt a radical experiment in hopes of preserving this majestic cat species. Along with expert cat handler Dave Salmoni and two tiger cubs named Ron and Julie who were adopted from a Toronto zoo, they begin the adventure of a lifetime.

Although indigenous to Asia, India, and Siberia, this experiment will attempt to colonize and train tigers in an African environment for the first time in hopes of eventually repopulating them back into their primary habitats someday. Criticized by many as an impossible undertaking, John and Dave set out to prove them wrong.

Spanning a timeline of three years, Discovery Channel Quest takes a very comprehensive look at the many challenges and occasional setbacks that were a part of this experience. As the tigers grow more adept at hunting prey and surviving on their own, their sanctuary is expanded and surrounded with a fence to keep them protected from outside dangers.

At the conclusion of the experiment, John Varty and Dave Salmoni defy their critics in that they have successfully trained tiger cubs from a zoo environment to hunt and survive in the wild. The ending segments show them attaching radio collars to the now full grown tigers to monitor progress and they discuss their plans to hopefully breed these cats in the future.

`Living with Tigers' is an outstanding Discovery Channel documentary in my opinion. The cinematography of Africa is beautiful to look at and the animal interaction and hunting segments, although a bit graphic in some areas, were very well done. The research and training portions of the program were educational, in-depth, and interesting throughout.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best wildlife documentary ever, September 15, 2006

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Behramjee Ghadially (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living with Tigers (DVD)

this is one of those documentaries that will amaze you to no limits, entertain you to the extreme and in the end put a sincere smile on your face on what the John Varty accomplished with his tigers in Africa. he took them as cubs from Toronto zoo to Africa where tigers have never roamed before, in order to train them to live there and hunt-kill animals for food. this dvd documents all the ups and downs of his struggle in training them. it also showcases amazing scenes of him and his team swimming and hunting side by side with the adult tigers, playing football with them, giving them medication and even taking away their food from them.

trust me, you will perhaps never see a better wildlife documentary than what is included in this dvd. it will truly amaze you what he accomplished in africa in this dvd.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous nature story!, September 25, 2009

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D. Siktberg (Wayland, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living with Tigers (DVD)

One of the most interesting videos I've ever seen - the story of how domestic-bred Bengal tigers are re-conditioned to live in the wild, in the African grasslands instead of the jungles of India. An incredible effort put forth to create the (huge) physical environment and the conditioning program. Highly recommended.