“…Various GI problems have been recorded for both wild and captive tigers (Panthera tigris), including trematode and nematode infection (Anderson et al, 2018;González et al, 2007), haemorrhagic enterocolitis as a result of Clostridium perfringens infection (Zhang et al, 2012), gastric dilatation with or without enterotoxaemia associated with C. perfringens (Anderson et al, 2018), and inflammatory bowel disease (Crook and Carpenter, 2014). Multiple historic reports exist of captivity-associated 'tiger disease, ' first observed in the early 1960s in a German zoo, which is generally believed to be caused by pancreatic dysfunction or disturbance of GI microbiota (Kloss and Lang, 1976).…”