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b"Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries.\\nIn recent weeks, we\\u2019ve entered a world without professional sports and where millions of people are forced to remain in their homes. In other words, we\\u2019re entered a world ripe for a weird Netflix show to become a cultural phenomenon.\\xa0\\nEnter Tiger King, a docuseries exploring the bizarre world of Americans who own dozens of\\xa0exotic animals, including tigers and lions.\\nSo what makes big cats so alluring to people anyways? Part of it is their unique intelligence, says Mike Mooring, a professor of biology at Point Loma Nazarene who studies jaguars in Costa Rica.\\u201cI think that from time immemorial, people have had both this primeval fear coupled with a fascination with the big cats because they're mysterious,\\u201d said Mooring. \\u201cThey come and go. You don't know where they are. They are elusive. They kind of pop out of the night and then they disappear.\\u201d\\nMooring joined digital media producer Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen to discuss whether big cats can be tamed, what makes these felines special, and how studying wildlife in Southern Africa led him to Christ.\\nWhat is Quick to Listen? Read more \\nRate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts \\nFollow the podcast on Twitter \\nFollow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen\\nRead God Loves Protected Species. And the Poachers Who Kill Them.\\nRead The Behemoth\\u2019s archives\\nMusic by Sweeps \\nQuick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder \\nThe transcript is edited by Bunmi Ishola\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"