
photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar
Attendance was up at the San Francisco Zoo following a tiger attack that killed a young man on Christmas Day, a zoo spokesman said Saturday.
Twice as many visitors came to the zoo when the facility reopened Thursday as had visited the same day last year, spokesman Paul Garcia said...
...Despite the weather, work continued on a 3-foot fence being erected around the zoo's polar bear exhibit after zoo officials said they determined the existing barrier was too low...
...Other zoos that have endured mishaps have seen similar spikes in attendance, which zoo officials have attributed to publicity and morbid curiosity.
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