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The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, alternatively known as the G.W. Zoo, Tiger King Park and formerly the Garold Wayne Exotic Animal Memorial Park, was an animal park displaying predominantly tigers and other big cats in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, United States.
Feb 23, 2022 · What has now become known as the ‘Tiger King Park’ dates back to 1999 when it was established in rural Oklahoma as the Garold Wayne Exotic Animal Memorial Park. The park was started by Joseph Maldonado-Passage (Schreibvogel), better known as Joe Exotic, and named the park after his late brother.
Apr 4, 2020 · After that, Joe bought a 16-acre farm in Oklahoma and opened the park as the Garold Wayne Exotic Animal Memorial Park. The first inhabitants of the park were Garold's two pets. And in 2000, Joe got his first two tigers, which he would feed with horses that were donated to him.
- Christine Persaud
Apr 5, 2020 · Exotic began the zoo as a refuge for rescued animals. He named the zoo after his brother, calling it the Garold Wayne Exotic Animal Memorial Park. However, locals all referred to it...
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Apr 8, 2020 · Originally named the Garold Wayne Exotic Animal Park, after the cat-loving brother killed in a drunk-driving incident who inspired him, then the Greater Wynnewood, it’s on North County Road in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, about 60 miles south of Oklahoma City and 150 miles north of Dallas, Texas.
- James Medd
Jan 5, 2024 · The park was initially named the Garold Wayne Exotic Animal Memorial Park in honor of Joe’s brother, Garold Wayne Schreibvogel, who had died in a car crash two years earlier in 1997. Besides...
Apr 2, 2020 · The subject of Tiger King, one self-styled Joe Exotic, created a zoo/wild animal park in memory of his late brother, the Garold Wayne Exotic Animal Memorial Park in Oklahoma. That morphed into the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park. Here's what it's like today.
