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U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 19, 2008 @ 8:06am neoform

CNN -- An organization that accredits zoos says the San Francisco Zoo had an "impressive" response to a tiger escape on Christmas Day but could have done more initially, according to a report the zoo released Tuesday. A Siberian tiger got out of its enclosure on.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 8, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- 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 "couldn't hold a house cat" and demands that city officials apologize for waging a "cha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 7, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- Pit bull. Hollywood. Showboat. All of these have been used to describe Mark Geragos, the attorney who jetted up from Los Angeles last week to represent the two brothers who were mauled in the Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo. And doe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 3, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 27, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

SF Gate -- Carlos Sousa Jr.'s parents watched news coverage of the gruesome Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo, but had no idea one of the victims was their son. "Someone called their house this morning," Patricia Fagunves, the teen's cousin, sai.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 27, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

CNN -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 12:38pm neoform

SF Gate -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 21, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- The younger of two brothers who survived a Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo was charged Tuesday with five felony counts accusing him of shoplifting video game equipment from Target stores in the East Bay, authorities said. Paul Dhali.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 7, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 11, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Personal property seized from the victims of a tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo may contain evidence that they taunted the animal, provoking it to escape its pen, the city attorney's office argued in court documents. City officials believe that cell.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 4, 2008 @ 8:46am neoform

SF Gate -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 27, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

MSNBC -- 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.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 27, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

SF Gate -- San Francisco police are investigating the possibility that one of the victims in the fatal tiger mauling on Christmas Day climbed over a waist-high fence and then dangled a leg or other body part over the edge of a moat that kept the big cat away from th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 15, 2007 @ 11:37am neoform

FOX News -- 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.. Read More