Life of Pi (film) supports his desire to grow, but his rationalist father tries to secularize him. Pi's family owns a zoo, and Pi takes interest in the animals, especially a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. After Pi gets dangerously close to Richard Parker, his father forces him to witness the tiger killing a goat. When Pi is 16, his father announces that they must move to Canada, where he intends to settle and sell the animals. The family books passage with the animals on a Japanese freighter. During a storm, the ship founders while Pi is on deck. He tries to find his
Dance of the Tiger people as more aggressive, practicing slavery and choosing violence to solve social problems. The Neanderthal society, based on a matriarchal system, is drawn as peace-loving with elaborate social rituals designed to resolve problems. The novel is known for its plausibility and accuracy. Kurtén's supposition that Neanderthals and ancestors of modern "Homo sapiens" occupied same areas in the same time in Europe has been confirmed by fossil evidence. Kurtén wasn't the first novelist to examine the subject; for instance author William Golding also examined the issue of Neanderthal extinction in "The Inheritors". Dance of the Tiger Dance of the Tiger (Swedish: