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				<title>Victims' attorney: Zoo knowingly kept tiger in exhibit that 'couldn't hold a housecat'</title>
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				<description>The attorney for the two brothers who survived the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo has accused officials there of knowingly maintaining a tiger grotto that &quot;couldn't hold a house cat&quot; and demands that city officials apologize for waging a &quot;cha</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-01-08 08:14:53</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
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					<rating>Interesting [6]</rating>
													<credibility>60</credibility>
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				<title>New signs, loudspeakers await zoo visitors, but several questions about attack remain unanswered</title>
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				<description>The San Francisco Zoo will reopen at 10 a.m. tomorrow, with new signs asking patrons to leave the animals alone and loudspeakers that will be used to tell visitors to leave promptly at closing time.

Manuel Mollinedo, the zoo's executive director, said</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-01-03 08:14:14</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
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					<rating>Interesting [8]</rating>
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				<title>Victims may have dangled leg over tiger's moat, says report</title>
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				<description>The mother of a 17-year-old boy killed by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo said the attack has forever ruined Christmas for her, while police reportedly are investigating whether one of the victims taunted the deadly jungle cat. Sources close to the inves</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-12-27 08:23:45</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/27/tiger.attack/index.html</link>
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					<rating>Shocking [8]</rating>
													<credibility>75</credibility>
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				<title>Zoo's panda cub named Zhen Zhen</title>
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				<description>The San Diego Zoo's panda cub finally has a name: Zhen Zhen, or Precious. Following Chinese tradition, the zoo waited until the cub, which was born August 3, was 100 days old before giving her a name Monday.

According to zoo officials, Zhen Zhen won ou</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-11-28 10:45:01</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/11/27/panda.cub.name.ap/index.html</link>
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					<rating>Interesting [6]</rating>
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				<title>Atascadero zoo tiger killed by exhibit mate</title>
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				<description>A zoo tiger was killed by his longtime exhibit mate.

Hoshi, an Indochinese tiger who joined the Charles Paddock Zoo in fall 2000, was found dead in his den Sunday.

Zoo director Alan Baker said the tiger died from asphyxiation caused by exhibit mate</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-06-26 12:38:20</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
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					<rating>Interesting [6]</rating>
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				<title>Plague kills monkey at Denver Zoo</title>
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				<description>A capuchin monkey at the Denver Zoo has died of plague and officials are trying to prevent an epidemic by isolating the primates and treating them with antibiotics.

Zoo officials learned late Friday that the 8-year-old animal that died Wednesday tested</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-05-22 11:22:07</pubDate>
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					<name>USA Today</name>
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					<rating>Interesting [7]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>SF Zoo raises height of lion and tiger exhibit walls</title>
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				<description>The San Francisco Zoo announced today that it has completed the first phase of improvements to its four big-cat grottos, which have been closed since a lethal Christmas Day attack in which a Siberian tiger named Tatiana killed one patron and mauled his tw</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-02-07 08:14:56</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
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								<credibility>95</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>24-foot snake staying at Columbus Zoo</title>
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				<description>Fluffy, a 24-foot python billed as the largest snake in captivity, is staying put to lure visitors into the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

The zoo paid $35,000 to the snake's breeder in Oklahoma to keep the reticulated python on permanent display. While on</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-01-14 08:14:04</pubDate>
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					<name>Yahoo News</name>
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								<credibility>93</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Did San Francisco give up too much control, let its zoo run wild?</title>
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				<description>San Francisco leaders are considering changes to the 15-year-old agreement that turned over control of the city's zoo to a nonprofit group, effectively relinquishing the city's direct oversight of an institution that at the time faced the loss of its accr</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-01-08 08:12:43</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
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								<credibility>95</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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				<title>Zoo opens to tourists and curious onlookers</title>
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				<description>It's cold, rainy and windy in the Sunset District today - not a good day to go to the zoo.

But a small crowd of curious residents and tourists gathered at the gates this morning as the San Francisco Zoo reopened, nine days after an escaped tiger killed</description>
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				<pubDate>2008-01-04 08:46:00</pubDate>
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					<name>SF Gate</name>
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				<title>Tiger victim's parents speak out</title>
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				<description>Same tiger mauled zookeeper's arm

The same tiger, a 4-year-old female named Tatiana, ripped the flesh off a zookeeper’s arm just before Christmas a year ago while the woman was feeding the animal through the bars. A state investigation faulted the zo</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-12-27 08:29:23</pubDate>
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					<name>MSNBC</name>
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				<title>Tiger Mauls Texas Zookeeper</title>
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				<description>A zookeeper was in critical condition after he was attacked by a male Sumatran tiger at the San Antonio Zoo.

The keeper was attacked about 2:30 p.m. in a nonpublic area, said zoo spokeswoman Dawn Campos. The zoo, open every day of the year, was closed</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-07-15 11:37:51</pubDate>
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					<rating>Interesting [3]</rating>
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