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Thailand Tiger Temple: Monks Live With Tigers (PHOTOS)
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ABC News: Tigers at Thai Temple Drugged Up or Loved Up?
They call it the Tiger Temple, and its story is the stuff of fairy tales.
The Buddhists believe in reincarnation and the abbot feels that these tigers are his family. As he told ABC News, "I think they are my babies: my son, my daughter, my father, mother. If not in the present life, in the past life."
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Every afternoon, up to 1,000 tourists from across the world flock to the Tiger Temple for their very own personal tiger experience.
And what they see is unlike any American zoo exhibit. Tiger Temple is hands-on, meaning visitors can pet the enormous cats and even hold their heads in their laps for photos.
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