Emily, a Siberian tiger dies in SF zoo
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Emily, a 343-pound Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo, has died of cancer of the spleen at the age of 12. The tiger&#39;s keeper Ron Bernardi said Emily started vomiting
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An African elephant, which  collapsed and died at the Los Angeles Zoo this week, suffered a  heart attack, officials said on Wednesday, and animal rights  activists said the death underscored the risks of confining the  large mammals in urban zoos.
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Two endangered Siberian tiger cubs are found dead at a Chinese zoo after an adult female is killed and beheaded.
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DENVER - A male jaguar killed a zookeeper at the Denver Zoo on Saturday and employees put the animal down, police said.
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A three-week-old baby elephant rejected by its mother at the Calgary Zoo has died, the zoo said Wednesday. The Asian elephant, who had yet to be named, had been fighting an infection, and slipped into a coma Tuesday afternoon.
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Investigators are trying to figure out how a Siberian tiger escaped from her enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day and killed a zoo visitor. Two other visitors were injured. The tiger, a 300-pound female named Tatiana, did not get out through an open door, Robert Jenkins, the zoo's director of animal care and conservation, told The Associated Press.
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Nine days after a tiger mauled three visitors, the San Francisco Zoo reopened Thursday with safety improvements and more signs warning people not to pester animals such as the 350-pound Siberian tiger that killed a teenager.
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Four tigers escaped their cages at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring two others, a newspaper reported.
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Two baby Bengal tigers have been  discovered dead in a refrigerator at a central Chinese zoo, the  second incident involving dead tigers at that institution in  less than a week.
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A young Asian elephant that had delighted visitors at the Woodland Park Zoo since her birth died Friday, about a week after she began showing signs of abdominal pain, zoo officials said.
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A rare northern white rhinoceros died Wednesday at the San Diego Zoo, dwindling the critically endangered species' population to as few as 13 worldwide, zoo officials said.
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Yielding to pressure from animal-rights groups, the San Francisco Zoo is giving up its last elephant, marking the first time in the facility's 75-history that it will be without at least one pachyderm.
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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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CALGARY (CP) - A three-week-old baby elephant that had been rejected by its mother has died at the Calgary Zoo. Zookeepers and veterinarians had been providing round-the-clock care to the unnamed Asian elephant
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A 24-year-old Komodo dragon given to U.S. President George H.W. Bush as a gift from the Indonesian government has died of an abdominal infection at the Cincinnati Zoo &amp; Botanical Garden. Naga, who sired 32 offspring, died Sunday, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported in Tuesday editions.
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A 55-year-old Sumatran orangutan, believed to be the world's oldest, has died, a Miami zoo spokesman said.
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By CHASE SQUIRES DENVER - A zookeeper died Saturday after a 140-pound jaguar mauled her in the doorway of its exhibit, and the big cat was fatally shot when it approached emergency workers treating the injured woman, the zoo said.