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A zoo in America is pioneering an unusual form of exercise for its animals and their trainers. Going for a swim. Together.
Tigers at the Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (Tigers), in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, are taught to swim with their trainers from an early age in a specially designed pool.
When two white tiger cubs were born during a hurricane they had to be separated from their mother after their sanctuary flooded.
However they have since found an unlikely surrogate mother in chimpanzee Anjana, who has taken on the role of caring for the cubs
The two-year-old chimp has been helping keeper China York care for the 21-day-old cubs at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species, T.I.G.E.R.S., in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.