US zoo baffled by tiger's escape
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A California zoo is shut while investigators try to find out how a tiger escaped to attack three visitors, killing one.
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The wall protecting the public from big cats at the San Francisco Zoo -- where a tiger escaped on Christmas Day and killed a teenager and mauled two brothers -- is below the minimum height recommended by the nation's zoo accrediting agency.
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A jaguar's lethal attack on a keeper at the Denver Zoo has renewed the debate over whether big predators should be kept in captivity in the first place.
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The San Francisco Zoo reopened on Thursday, nine days after an escaped 250-pound (113-kg) Siberian tiger killed one visitor and mauled two others before police shot it to death.
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Mayor Gavin Newsom says he hopes public hearings beginning Friday will produce answers about how a tiger escaped at the San Francisco Zoo and killed a teenager on Christmas Day.
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One person was killed and two others were seriously injured Tuesday evening after a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its cage shortly after the facility closed.
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GREENBURGH, N.Y. - Police sent to investigate a traffic accident found more than they expected - a small zoo.
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A Thai zoo workers sprays disinfect chemical as tigers look on at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi province, southeast of Bangkok, Thailand, after the zoo was ordered to close down Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004.
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RAPID CITY, S.D. - A buffalo that escaped from an auction ended up in a dressing room at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center where it spent a couple of hours staring into a mirror.
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There are no easy answers when it comes to keeping the world's largest land mammal in check.
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San Francisco police combed the city's zoo for clues as to how a tiger escaped from its enclosure on Christmas and killed one man and wounded two others, a zoo spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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The big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo was cordoned off as a crime scene Wednesday as investigators tried to determine whether a 300-pound Siberian tiger that killed a visitor escaped from its high-walled pen on its own or got help from someone, inadvertent or otherwise.
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Police believe the three people mauled by a tiger yelled and waved at the cat from atop a railing before it lunged at them, but experts say that's only a notch up from the type of taunting animals regularly endure at the nation's zoos.
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One of the three victims of San Francisco Zoo tiger attack was intoxicated and admitted to yelling and waving at the animal while standing atop the railing of the big cat enclosure, police said in court documents filed Thursday
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida -- The owner of a wildlife sanctuary was injured by a 160-kg Siberian tiger when the animal was startled by a 14-year-old boy, officials said yesterday.
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Police are investigating a shoeprint found on the railing of a San Francisco Zoo exhibit from which a Siberian tiger escaped and killed a man in a Christmas attack, the city's police chief said on Thursday.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Zookeepers, police and animal control officers followed five runaway wildebeests through a residential area Tuesday after they escaped from the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo.