Monday, January 14, 2008

Tony the Tiger

A news item from the beleaguered San Francisco zoo:
Zoo officials hope to find a new partner for a Siberian tiger that has been locked alone inside a labyrinth of Lion House cages since its platonic mate was shot dead after it attacked three zoo visitors.

Tatiana, the 4-year-old tiger who escaped its enclosure on Dec. 25 and killed Carlos Sousa and attacked two other men before it was shot by police, was brought to The City in 2005 for an older male tiger named Tony, according to San Francisco Zoo chief veterinarian Jacquie Jencek.
All I could think of when I read that snippet was--the zoo named one of their tigers Tony?

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