Zoos review housing after SF mauling
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Officials at zoos around the country say their housing for big cats is safe, but in light of the fatal mauling in San Francisco some are reviewing their procedures and even taking new measures of steep pen walls.
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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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Wildlife agencies are re-examining some longstanding approaches to cultivating waterfowl populations.
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Visitors can now see the Los Angeles Zoo's newest attraction, but he can't see them.
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A wildlife park is widening its collection of animals to include Japanese macaques.
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A humpback whale and her calf that have captivated the San Francisco Bay area for two weeks made progress in finding their way back to open waters.  Late Tuesday night, the U.S.
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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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Officials on Sunday were trying to determine why a zookeeper killed by a jaguar had opened the door to the animal's enclosure when zoo policies ban staff members from entering exhibits when big cats are inside.
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MIAMI -- One curious Florida panther left tracks as it peeked into a home window. One poached four emus from a petting zoo. Others crept into exurban backyards and slinked away with squealing family pets.
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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 teenager in a Christmas attack, the city's police chief said on Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Zoo paid $4,500 to an expert in the ancient Chinese art of feng shui to ensure three endangered golden monkeys on loan from China can have a strong life force.
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Calif. judge says that the San Francisco Zoo may look for incriminating photographs on cell phones owned by two men who were mauled by a tiger last month.
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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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Researchers are studying a colony of bats that live in an underground concrete structure at the Hanford nuclear reservation in hopes of determining how to provide a new home for them once the structure is demolished.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pulled two species be pulled from the endangered list on Monday and recommended that four be downlisted from endangered to threatened on Monday, saying there's been much progress toward wildlife recovery in California.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. - All over one suburban subdivision, wild pigs have left their mark.  There was a dead cat. Ruth Strahosky's lawn was shredded when she was on vacation.
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The National Zoo in Washington, plagued by a string of animal deaths including red pandas poisoned by rat bait, is improving but staff still needs basic animal care training, the National Research Council said Wednesday.