A five-year-old hit TV show about the self-titled “Tiger King” and his wildlife-exhibiting cohorts resurfaced this week with the sentencing of two men involved in the illegal chimpanzee trade.
Jason Clay, the owner of a private for-profit zoo in Texas, was sentenced Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of violating the Endangered Species Act. Clay admitted to selling a juvenile chimpanzee to South Carolina resident Bhagavan “Doc” Antle.
Antle owns the Myrtle Beach Safari and played a prominent part in the 2020 Netflix series “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.”
Clay owned the East Texas Zoo and Gator Park in Grand Saline, Texas. It housed captive exotic species and charged the public an entry fee to view and interact with the animals.
