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Title: Tiger Security
Published: Tue, 25 Dec 2007
Description: Local animal keepers react to the latest mauling by an escaped Tiger at the San Francisco Zoo and discuss their safety precautions.
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" And as you mentioned the Bay Area did have a brush with danger last year that's when a Sumatran tiger named and solid escaped in her holding -- elaborate park zoo. The -- president killed the animal before can reach a common area. Tonight Claudia the council continues our team coverage of the local reaction to another story."
" We have a system here no one would never be cleaning around the lion -- tiger unless they -- with us for a minimum of two and a half years. Scott -- the big cat rescue incisions are simply put these -- the top -- predator there the biggest -- creditor in the world and they eat things easily the size of people if not bigger and when an accident happens there's no really going back the animal always loses."
" And a year and a half ago a big cat lost at the Lowry park zoo 200 pounds -- tiger known -- Salah was killed by zoo keepers when she escaped. This is president's shot the tiger while the park was still open with visitors on the grounds. It was determined that a door latch was left unlocked by zoo keeper who was later fired."
" But when you talk about shifting these animals we have to open the right doors shut the right door and becomes this maze -- you know a lot of times teachers are underpaid overworked there's a lot of stuff going on it. Here at this rescue group they have another method of securing their animals but we can shut the guillotine door replace all the food there on the block and then we let him come in and he. And visitors walk through the area with a guide no one is left unsupervised. -- to shut that door and lock him in like right now do you any kind of maintenance and were never having to worry about him."
" Do we know if you -- do we know if he's on the exhibit and this is that this is where he is. We're right here. It's not not an issue of so much of keeper air."
" And since this is not as soon Scott tells me these cages are equipped with what the animal leads to live here these are these animals are disappearing so fast in the wild."
" That very soon there's going to be no tigers left in the wild. So it's a big ethical debate do you do you save them just to make -- living pages or is it just a tragedy where there's no more tigers. I don't want to say."
" I called officials at the Lowry park zoo but they said no way to an interview about their safety procedures are even reaction to the San Francisco tragedy. Excuse. All right thank you Claudia NBC's Peter Alexander will have more on the story coming up tonight an NBC nightly news -- expired."
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