# Sriracha Tiger Zoo

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Former zoo in Chonburi, Thailand

Entrance of Sri Racha Tiger Zoo

A tiger at Sri Racha Tiger Zoo

The **Sriracha Tiger Zoo** was a zoo in [Sri Racha](/source/Si_Racha), a city on the outskirts of [Pattaya](/source/Pattaya), a seaside city in [Chonburi Province](/source/Chonburi_Province), [Thailand](/source/Thailand). It was about 110 km (68 mi) from [Bangkok](/source/Bangkok). The zoo claimed a large population of tigers and crocodiles.

Due to the Thai economy's collapse in 2021 as a result of the [COVID-19 pandemic](/source/COVID-19_pandemic), Sriracha Tiger Zoo had to close its doors.[1][2]

## Internet meme

Shooting gallery

Photographs of a female tiger nursing [piglets](/source/Piglet_(animal)) wrapped in tiger skin, accompanied by a fictitious story about a zoo in [California](/source/California), were actually taken at Sriracha.[3]

## Controversy

Feeding an adolescent tiger at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo

The [Animal Welfare Institute](/source/Animal_Welfare_Institute) reported in 2004 that the zoo had been using tigers and elephants in circus shows, including tigers leaping through rings of fire, walking across a double tightrope, parading around a ring on their hind legs, and riding on horseback.[4] AWI reported "potentially dangerous human-tiger and human-elephant close interaction", "bizarre multi-species enclosures", tigers being struck with steel poles by trainers and implications that tigers were being bred for export to [China](/source/China).[4]

[World Animal Protection](/source/World_Animal_Protection) reported in 2016 that the tigers 'appeared in the poorest condition of all those observed in our research.'[5]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["สวนเสือศรีราชา" ประกาศเลิกกิจการ หาบ้านใหม่ให้สัตว์ 5,000 ตัว](https://www.thaipbs.or.th/news/content/306040)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [""สวนเสือศรีราชา" ปิดตำนาน 24 ปี ทยอยขนของออกจากพื้นที่ (Sriracha Tiger Zoo closes after 24 years, gradually moving things out of the area)"](https://www.thairath.co.th/news/local/east/2139621). *www.thairath.co.th* (in Thai). 2021-07-13. Retrieved 2025-06-28.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** snopes.com (1 Jun 2006). ["Tiger and Piglets"](http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/tigerpig.asp). snopes.com. Retrieved 17 July 2010.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-awi_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-awi_4-1) Roberts, Adam M. (Winter 2005). ["Too Close for Comfort"](http://www.awionline.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/1907/pid/2506). *AWI Quarterly*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-World_Animal_Protection:_Tiger_selfies_exposed:_a_portrait_of_Thailand’s_tiger_entertainment_industry_5-0)** ["The world's cruellest attractions | World Animal Protection"](https://www.worldanimalprotection.org/wildlife-not-entertainers/worlds-cruellest-attractions).

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