Rare tiger cub dies at Pittsburgh zoo
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The smallest of three rare Siberian tiger cubs born at the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium died Thursday, zoo officials said.
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A previously unknown elephant herpes virus killed the Woodland Park Zoo's youngest Asian elephant, zoo officials said Monday.
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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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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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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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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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All four white Bengal tiger cubs born this week at a traveling zoo exhibit died within a few hours of one another, a zoo official said. A cause of death was not immediately released.
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A rare Siberian tiger was shot and killed Tuesday after it escaped from a downtown zoo by climbing over a 16-foot electrical fence in southern Denmark.
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Seven tigers have died of starvation or fight wounds in the last four years at an understaffed Chinese zoo where a rare Siberian tiger was found beheaded and skinned last week, a news report said Wednesday.
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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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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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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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Two dead Bengal tiger cubs have been  found in a refrigerator at a zoo in China, where the animal's  body parts are prized as medicines, in the second such incident  within a week.
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A government official confirmed that 23 tigers have died from bird flu at a private zoo in Thailand. The animals had been fed the carcasses of chickens infected with the disease.
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SAN DIEGO - The only captive member of what may be the world&#39;s most endangered species of bird has died in Hawaii, zoo officials announced Tuesday.
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BEIJING  -Staff at a zoo in southwest China are in  mourning after a sleep-deprived panda dropped her two-day-old  baby and crushed it to death, local media reported on Friday.
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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.