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Tiger King star Carole Baskin has sold Joe Exotic's former zoo for $140,00, in a deal that bans the property from being used as a zoo for 100 years

The documentary that ties the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and former director Jack Hanna to the exotic animal trade will make its Columbus debut in September. The documentary's filmmaker and zoo officials addressed the film's controversy Thursday morning on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher.

The "Conservation Game" claims the zoo and Hanna had ties to the big cat trade across the country.

Let’s return to a time when the sponsor’s name was still built into the show’s title and kids across the land tuned in to watch Marlin Perkins’ weekly animal adventures on Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. Young Tim Harrison was one of the flock inspired by Perkins — and later, his undersea counterpart Jacques Cousteau. Among his unsparing accomplishments: without assistance, erstwhile Ohio police officer (and firefighter and paramedic) Harrison, an expert in the field of exotic animals, has captured and salvaged a veritable menagerie of extraordinary “pets” from America’s ba...

It highlights the practice of trading exotic animals.