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Ming was a young tiger, approximately three years old at the time of his capture in October 2003. He lived in a five-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor of a large public housing complex in Harlem, New York. His owner, Antoine Yates, had several pets in the apartment, both normal and exotic. At the same time that he was keeping Ming in one of the bedrooms, he was raising an alligator named “Al” in another bedroom. ==History== Yates purchased Ming at eight weeks of age〔 from the BEARCAT Hollow Animal Park wildlife sanctuary in Racine, Minnesota. The owners of BEARCAT Hollow were sentenced to prison in 2005 for falsifying records to conceal illegal animal trafficking, following several complaints in 2001 where a tiger on-site had escaped its enclosure and mauled a child and a bear had escaped before being spotted at a neighboring house's porch. Records indicate that BEARCAT Hollow had previously sold a lion cub to Yates,〔 but Yates found another home for the lion prior to his mauling by Ming.〔 After Ming was discovered in the apartment, subsequent questioning of the neighbors determined the existence of the tiger was widely known for at least three years.〔 One fact that turned up was that Yates regularly bought large quantities of raw chicken at the local supermarket, and it was a standing joke in the building that he could eat so much chicken every day. In addition, Yates had taken roommates, unaware at first of the animals in the home. According to the ''New York Daily News'', 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ming of Harlem」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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