TNT Animal Kingdom Edition: Farewell to an Urban Tiger

ingilzce links to original English article

(New York Times, 3 October 2019)

//TNT, on assignment in Washington DC, came across 
this very interesting article.  Herewith the first few
paragraphs - to read the entire article click on 'ingilzce'
above.// 

Antoine Yates’s neighbors took notice of the exotic little pet he 

brought back one day to his Harlem housing project 20 years 

ago. “I remember him bringing home this little tiger cub,” 

Jerome Applewhite, a former neighbor, recalled in an interview 

on Monday. “When he told me what it was, I knew it was going 

to grow up to be some big animal.”

          NYPD rescuing a 400-pound 'hostage'.

Yes, it really was a Bengal tiger cub, and it indeed grew into a 

400-pound behemoth mostly during the three years it spent 

in Apartment 5E of the Drew Hamilton Houses under the 

loving care of Mr. Yates, a cabdriver who was then in his 

mid-30s.

Mr. Yates named him Ming and kept him, as he would later 

be quoted, “to show the whole world that we could all get along.”

                                     Fish out of water.