Tiger play at private zoo in Vietnam
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DI AN, Vietnam  - A bespectacled man in a   wide-brim hat slips his hand between the blue iron bars and   casually ruffles the orange and black fur of a tiger's head.
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The endangered Siberian tiger gets a boost, with the birth in captivity of 84 cubs since March this year in China.
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The San Francisco Zoo reopened a little over a week after a tiger escaped and mauled three visitors, killing one.
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Thai authorities say tests have confirmed 23 Tigers have died of bird flu at a private zoo in the eastern province of Chonburi. Thirty other tigers at the zoo, which houses hundreds of big cats, are said to be ill with the disease.
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Seven more tigers have died at a private zoo in Thailand where 23 others succumbed to bird flu, an official said Wednesday. In addition to the 30 tigers who have died, 23 others remain
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The animals died at Sriracha Tiger Zoo after being fed the carcasses of chickens infected with the disease. The zoo has been forced to close its doors to the public while authorities investigate.
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An escaped tiger attacked and killed a zoo patron Tuesday in a cafe at the San Francisco Zoo, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Fire Department told CNN. Two others were transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, she added.
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The bird flu epidemic which has killed 31 people in Southeast Asia so far this year, may have also killed 23 tigers at a zoo in eastern Thailand, according to officials in Thailand.
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Two tiger cubs have been found dead in a fridge at the same zoo in central China where a rare Siberian tiger was illegally slaughtered, state press reported Tuesday.
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The bird flu epidemic, which has killed 31 people in southeast Asia this year, has killed 23 tigers at a zoo in eastern Thailand, a senior government official says.
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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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The owner of a wildlife sanctuary was injured by a 350-pound Siberian tiger when the animal was startled by a 14-year-old boy, officials said Sunday.
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Bamboo, a 38-year-old elephant with no close friends at Woodland Park Zoo and a limited tolerance for the high jinks of baby Hansa, is packing her trunk and heading for the zoo in Tacoma, which welcomes prickly pachyderms.
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Three rare white tiger cubs  delighted visitors at the Buenos Aires zoo on Thursday,  tumbling in the grass of their enclosure in their first public  appearance since being born late last year.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. - The owner of a wildlife sanctuary was injured by a 350-pound Siberian tiger that was startled by a 14-year-old boy at a county fair, officials said Sunday.
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Four tigers escaped from their cage at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, and one of them killed a visitor and injured two people, according to local news reports.
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An endangered Sumatran tiger that lost  one of its paws, probably while trying to escape from a snare,  has been photographed in an Indonesian wildlife park, global  conservation group WWF said on Friday.