The son of a zookeeper is stranded on a 26-ft. lifeboat with zebra, hyena & tiger in this 2002 book
[DOC] [TLE] Life of Pi  heyjamie [PAR] The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal ... an 
orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger.