America's Most Dangerous Pets
Travelling to America's heartlands, Louis Theroux spends time with people who have private collections of tigers and chimpanzees.
Including a special introduction from Louis Theroux, who is live-tweeting along with the episode using #watchwithlouis.
According to some reports, there are now more tigers in captivity in the US than in the wild in the whole of Asia, as well as large numbers of lions, bears and chimpanzees.
Travelling to America's heartlands, Louis Theroux spends time with an Oklahoma man who has bred and collected over 150 tigers, visits the woman who privately owns one of America's largest collections of chimpanzees, and finds himself in uncomfortably close contact with a number of big cats and dangerous primates.
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Louis meets Tatiana the baboon
Duration: 02:44
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Louis visits a lion & tiger breeding pair
Duration: 02:20
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Louis meets Tukem the chimpanze
Duration: 01:54
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:12
Lou Reed
Walk On The Wild Side
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Louis Theroux |
Director | Jamie Pickup |
Executive Producer | Nick Mirsky |
Broadcasts
- Sun 30 Oct 2011 21:00
- Tue 1 Nov 2011 23:20±«Óãtv Two Wales & England only
- Tue 1 Nov 2011 23:50±«Óãtv Two Northern Ireland
- Wed 2 Nov 2011 00:20±«Óãtv Two Scotland
- Sun 3 May 2020 21:50±«Óãtv Two except Scotland
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