Exclusive!! Most cats avoid bathtime but not these fearsome felines. Odin and Fedor are the Star Attraction at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, CA. Odin a seven year old, 435 lb, 10 foot long, White Bengal Tiger was born in captivity and was hand-raised at the zoo. After he was weaned, his British trainer, Lee Munro discovered something remarkable, when a lump of meat was thrown into a pool of water, Odin would willingly dive in after it and devour it. Munro hurls ball size chunks of meat into a glass walled pool and Odin pounces in after them while visitors can watch him gliding throu
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Exclusive!! Most cats avoid bathtime but not these fearsome felines. Odin and Fedor are the Star Attraction at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, CA. Odin a seven year old, 435 lb, 10 foot long, White Bengal Tiger was born in captivity and was hand-raised at the zoo. After he was weaned, his British trainer, Lee Munro discovered something remarkable, when a lump of meat was thrown into a pool of water, Odin would willingly dive in after it and devour it. Munro hurls ball size chunks of meat into a glass walled pool and Odin pounces in after them while visitors can watch him gliding through the water to retrieve his dinner. Odin learned his diving from a now 'retired' tiger named Kuma, and has since passed the trick on to much younger cub, Fedor, a three year old orange Siberian Tiger, who also calls Six Flags home. They are the only captive tigers in the world that are trained to hunt their food under water. Although Fedor still lacks Odin's underwater grace Munro says, "That's how Odin was when he first started out. He was klutzy, his butt was bobbing around in the air, and his tail hanging out, but now look at him". Chris Drelick, a new trainer at the park says "Someday parks like Six Flags may be the only places to see animals like these". The last known wild white tiger was shot in 1958. A century ago there were about 100, 000 tigers in the wild, now there are just 2, 500 adults, with the Bengal variety almost extinct. San Fransisco, CA, 8/3/08.