Four Bengal tigers freed from train carriage where they were trapped for 15 years
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After a transcontinental journey that began in Argentina and took more than 70 hours, four Bengal tigers are safe in South Africa after being abandoned by a traveling circus and kept in a filthy, cramped enclosure for more than a decade.
Inside the metal box, there is a Bengal tiger that was once forced to perform in a travelling circus, before being locked away in a train carriage.
"I don't think they will believe they are free," said Amir Khalil while peering into another crate. "It is difficult. Imagine you are closed for 15 years in a place and one time the door is open."
Khalil is a veterinarian and project director at an animal welfare organization called Four Paws International.
Along with his team, he helped rescue not one tiger, but four from deplorable conditions in Argentina.
