10 Facts About Dave Salmoni

Dave Salmoni was born on September 4,1975 and is a Canadian animal trainer, entertainer and television producer.

Dave Salmoni has his own production company, Triosphere, which is based in South Africa and specializes in wildlife films.

Dave Salmoni studied zoology at the Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, and wrote his undergraduate thesis on tracking the hibernation of black bears.

Also while in university, Dave Salmoni was certified in the Chemical Immobilization of Wildlife and worked on an elk relocation project and at a white-tailed deer count station for the Ministry of Natural Resources.

In 1998, Dave Salmoni began his apprenticeship as an animal trainer at Bowmanville Zoological Park.

Dave Salmoni left Canada for South Africa in 2000 as part of the controversial Tiger "rewilding" project.

Dave Salmoni was attacked by one of his trained big cats named Bongo, a five hundred pound male African lion in August 1999 in Ontario, which inspired his making of After the Attack.

Dave Salmoni starred in the show Animal Face-Off as a host and expert.

Dave Salmoni started production of a short series named Deadly Islands which premiered in 2014.

Dave Salmoni hosted Expedition Impossible, a Mark Burnett show on ABC in 2011.