New York
Police arrested a Harlem man this week for keeping a 400-pound tiger and a 5-foot caiman alligator in his apartment. Antoine Yates, 31, got the tiger as a cub, and managed to raise it in his high-rise apartment, feeding it 25 chicken thighs a day. But when Yates recently brought a kitten home, the tiger, named Ming, tried to eat it, and Yates was bitten when he got between them. Surprised doctors who treated the wound tipped off police that there was something very large in Yates’ apartment. Yates admitted he had kept a string of exotic animals over the years, including hyenas and monkeys, and said he hoped to turn his home into an animal paradise. “I am trying to create a Garden of Eden,” he said, “something this world lacks.”
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