By KEN BELSON

New Yorkers have plenty of reasons to be on edge when walking the streets, from armed thugs to reckless taxi drivers to aggressive hawkers.

Tigers, it is safe to say, would not be on the list. And for good cause: They are kept in zoos and are supposed to be kept safely away from people.

Except that what happened in San Francisco has raised the question of urban tigers.

Authorities there are still trying to determine how a tiger in the San Francisco Zoo got out of its pen and killed one person and seriously injured two others on Tuesday evening. The tiger, a 300-pound Siberian named Tatiana, was shot and killed by the police.

Still, in the New York area, plenty of zoogoers seemed unperturbed by the dreadful and extremely unusual episode. At Tiger Mountain in the Bronx Zoo, where seven Siberian tigers are kept, hundreds of visitors Wednesday paraded past huge windows that look into a wooded, hilly area where two of the tigers, Taurus and Norma, were roaming.

“I would be a lot more worried about my neighbors having all sorts of weird animals, or even dogs that their owners don’t control,” said Kate Szur, 39, who was visiting from Brooklyn with her husband and 4-year-old daughter. “I think the tigers escaping is a very rare occurrence.”

Indeed, they do seem to be rare, according to zookeepers and others who handle wild animals for a living. These professionals said tigers, even those that have lived in captivity all their lives, always act on instinct, particularly if they wander outside their territory, or safe zone.

“Tigers are a combination of strong instincts and strong emotions and no inhibition,” said Louis Dorfman, an animal behaviorist at the International Exotic Animal Sanctuary in Boyd, Tex., 30 miles north of Fort Worth. “Once this cat gets out, it’s immediately in its instinctual mode.”

Mr. Dorfman and others said accredited zoos had enough security measures in place to ensure that the only way a tiger was likely to escape was through human error, like a door left unlocked.

Experts say it is rare for an animal to escape from a professionally maintained facility in New York, but New Yorkers have been known to keep exotic pets, including boa constrictors.

At the Bronx Zoo, the tigers’ habitat is surrounded by a 20-foot-high chain-link fence with a 5-foot overhang that curls inward at the top. An electrified “hot wire” runs along the inside of the fence. The wire blends into the landscape, but it carries enough electricity to stun the tigers, so they have learned to steer clear of it, zookeepers say.

There are also metal rings around tree trunks to keep the tigers from scaling the trees and jumping over the fence.

Still, many of the children passing the window and looking into the tigers’ territory screamed with fear when they first saw them. They weigh as much as 650 pounds and are strong enough to crush their prey’s vertebrae in one bite.

Some adults were not taking chances. Sgt. Regan Kelly, a police officer from Mamaroneck who was visiting with his wife, joked that he was loaded for bear.

“I made sure I was armed with extra ammo today,” he said, nodding to his gun beneath his jacket. “And here everyone is training for terrorists.”

While tigers kept in zoos are typically well secured, there are other settings in which the animals have been a menace, or worse. In October 2003, Roy Horn of the magic and tiger-training team of Siegfried and Roy was mauled by a 400-pound white tiger during a show in Las Vegas. Mr. Horn had worked with the tiger for years, but is still undergoing rehabilitation and walks with a cane.

Just a day after the attack on Mr. Horn, New Yorkers had their own walk on the wild side when a 400-pound Bengal tiger and a five-foot-long caiman were discovered in an apartment in Harlem.

The police were alerted after the owner of the apartment, Antoine Yates, called to say he had been bitten by a pit bull. When they arrived, officers talked to neighbors who complained about large amounts of urine and a strong smell coming from the apartment.

To subdue the tiger, a police sniper rappelled down the side of the building and, as the tiger roared in the background, fired tranquilizer darts through an open fifth-floor window.

Keeping tigers in such confined spaces might be rare, and even cruel, but plenty of Americans feel comfortable keeping these animals in their backyards. Several years ago, there were more tigers in private hands in Texas than in all the nation’s accredited zoos, according to Palmer Krantz III, the chairman of the board at the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

“It would be highly irresponsible for some individual to maintain a large exotic animal as a pet,” said Mr. Krantz, who is also the executive director of Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, S.C. “You not only have to know what you are doing, but you also need the facilities for them.”

In Wantage, N.J., Space Farms Zoo and Museum keeps its two Bengal tigers, Kimber and Khyber, behind a 10-foot-high heavy-gauge chain-link fence, and a 4-foot fence keeps onlookers from getting too close.

There are two sections in the tigers’ pen and a lock between them, so when zookeepers clean one side, the tigers are locked on the opposite side. Workers check the pen daily, and the state’s Division of Wildlife checks the zoo annually.

The security is not just about meeting regulatory requirements, said Parker Space, the park’s owner.

“I figure it’s easier to keep an eye on them than it is to chase them,” he said. “You can train a wild animal, but you can never tame them.”

(CNN) — A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the deaths of six people — believed to be three generations of the same family — in a rural area outside Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday, authorities said.The pair, who are in their late 20s, were being taken to the King County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday evening, deputies told CNN.

The bodies were found earlier in the day at a house in Carnation, about 20 miles east of Seattle.

The pair have not confessed to the deaths and do not yet have access to lawyers, King County Sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart said Wednesday evening.

“This couple was among the people that showed up at the [crime] scene,” Urquhart said. “And as we got to talking to them, we developed probable cause and made the arrests.”

The couple is expected to be charged with six counts of first-degree homicide, he said.

Urquhart said investigators have not yet determined a motive for the killings. He said the two suspects are girlfriend and boyfriend and are related to the victims.

A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that police arrested the property owners’ daughter and her boyfriend.

The victims were a man and a woman in their 50s, another man and woman in their 30s, and two children: a 6-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy.

They are believed to be three generations of the same family, and they appeared to have been shot sometime Monday, Urquhart said.

The bodies were found in and around the house, which is on a residential property in Carnation, Urquhart said. The house sits among a cluster of residences and is at the end of a long dirt road on the edge of woods. 

A colleague of one of the victims came by to check on the family Wednesday morning after one of the victims didn’t show up for work, King County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jim Laing said.

The colleague called deputies, who initially found the bodies of two adults and a child inside a house on the property.

A subsequent search revealed the other bodies.

Authorities earlier ruled out murder-suicide in the deaths.

News By Andrew Bulthaupt

Should colleges become media policemen? That’s what would happen if the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 is passed.

The bill, as written, deals primarily with federal college grants, loans and scholarships. It also includes a provision increasing the responsibility of colleges for stopping illegal downloads and peer-to-peer transfers over the Internet of copyrighted material such as music, movies and TV shows.

The bill states that all participating schools will inform students and employees of the “policies and procedures” related to the illegal sharing of various media. The bill also encourages institutions to develop plans to offer alternatives to or deter the use of their networks for these activities.

Fortunately, adherence to this new policy is not mandatory. The bill’s proponents have said that institutions and students will not be penalized for noncompliance. The Secretary of Education, however, will be empowered to give out grants on a competitive basis to schools that follow through on the procedures. This will likely entice many institutions that will then spend money and resources to implement such systems. Who are these costs going to be passed on to? The students, of course.

There are a number of reasons this bill should be opposed. It is a violation of student privacy. The government or any other surrogate organization should not be looking at the Web sites we go to. They should not be reading our e-mail and monitoring other Internet traffic because someone might be sharing a copyrighted song.

The main issue with the bill is that of enforcement: Why should the school be responsible for stopping media piracy? Shouldn’t the entertainment industry be stopping people from sharing music over the Internet?

The Motion Picture Association of America has given its support for this section of the bill. Perhaps the MPAA, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and other groups were pushing for its addition from the start.

The attempted enforcement by the music and movie industries has gone overboard. Recently Jammie Thomas was found guilty for making her music available on a peer-to-peer network on the Internet and was hit with a $222,000 fine.

Obviously, their new plan is to go after colleges and students where, in all probability, a large amount of this sharing takes place. Early this month, the RIAA sent pre-litigation notices to hundreds of college students giving them the choice of settling or meeting the RIAA in court like Thomas did. If the entertainment industry truly wanted to stop piracy, it would realize that lawsuits and federal bills are not going to cut it. A study done by the NPD market research group showed that four times as many people download music and movies illegally than those who use legal methods.

Even if sharing could be stopped over the Internet, the problem is not going to go away. College students are resourceful: Sharing media will just evolve and change. The industry needs to realize that the model of selling CDs with one song people want to listen to is out of date.

Most people have no problem paying for something if they can do it in an easy, effortless and reasonably priced manner. Just look at iTunes for all the evidence you need. They, along with other online venues like Amazon, allow users to buy just the songs they want — not a whole CD — for a realistic price. The user can then use them on their computers, music players or put them on CDs. This removes the manufacturing and distribution costs and makes the customer happy. As a result, they have been incredibly successful. All the entertainment industry needs to do is embrace this paradigm shift and the customers will follow.

Will this new model eliminate media piracy? No, of course not. Since the first reel-to-reel recorders became available, there has been piracy. And yet since that time, the entertainment industry has increased in size enormously and continues to make money. Piracy obviously can’t be affecting the bottom line all that much.

The entertainment industry should not go around complaining about a problem, going after college students in court, or enticing colleges to become media police. The industry should be productive and fix it.

by Karen E. Klein

What’s on the horizon for venture capital investing? The founder of one Menlo Park (Calif.) firm predicts conflicting trends in 2008: the demise of a number of VC firms and healthy growth for others, especially those focused on the high-tech, biotech, and green-tech sectors. The founders of Rembrandt Venture Partners focus on early-stage companies with unique propositions and significant “unfair advantage” over their competition. General partner Richard Ling spoke to Smart Answers columnist Karen E. Klein recently about the future and how entrepreneurs might go about capturing his attention. Edited excerpts of their conversation follow.

Your firm has been around since 2004, you’ve invested in 19 companies, and you’ve returned all the capital from your initial fund. So you guys are doing well. But what do you see happening on the broader venture capital landscape in 2008?

We think there’s going to be continued shrinkage of VC funds out there. A lot of them started in the late ’90s, and they popped up solely to take advantage of the Internet bubble. Since the average VC signs 10-year contracts with its investing partners, many of them are reaching that deadline now. They will have difficulty raising new money if they haven’t had an exit or returned much capital in the last year.

We also think there’s a growing trend among smaller VC firms where they are reducing the size of their average fund, shortening their capital cycle from four years to two, and raising new funds more frequently.

What about trends you see in venture-backed firms and how they will fare in 2008?

We foresee a modest increase in IPOs, but we think that M&A activity will continue to dominate on exits, with lots of action particularly in the media sector. Traditional outlets are still struggling to develop new advertising models for the Internet, so they are consolidating their efforts by buying out these smaller niche media companies because they need them to move online. The other thing that’s driving the media markets is the convergence of different data types, including voice and video. Phone companies are becoming TV companies now, and cable companies, because they’re providing video on demand.

Teenagers now are spending more hours a week on the Internet than they are watching TV, but advertisers are still just scratching the surface of the Internet as an advertising medium, so there’s a lot of growth still to happen there.

You invest primarily in high-tech companies. What’s going on there?

We see two tendrils to every large technology disruption. In the early stages of adoption of a new technology, it gets hugely overhyped, way too many players try to get into the space, and there’s a massive crash within about two years. This happened with the PC when it was introduced. It happened with the Internet during the bubble. But it’s not that new: In 1929, there were 120 telephone companies in New York City alone.

After the crash, things shake out, and within about 10 years, it becomes obvious that the technology has had a huge impact in its own right. We think that’s about where we are now with the high-tech industry.

What’s the next big thing on the technology front?

We think there’s going to be much additional focus on clean-energy technology. A lot of funds are being raised in that sector and there’s been a shift in perception. It’s not just “greens” who are promoting clean tech these days, but also military and conservative people who are increasingly aware that we’re getting more of our oil from very unstable regions of the world. Clean technology is becoming important to the national security strategic discussion at many, many levels. The hawks are starting to see [importation of foreign oil] as a huge economic threat for the U.S., and that’s why we’re seeing many different constituencies getting behind the green energy movement. Once you see an issue like that being promoted into public policy, the real business deals start to happen.

Could it be that the same massive buildup will happen in that sector next, as it perhaps gets overhyped and overfunded?

Yeah, we might be in the early part of that two-year cycle with a crash on the horizon. There will be a lot of investments in that space in 2008, but a lot of the companies probably won’t survive. At that point, we’ll again see massive consolidation and a lot of write-offs. The best position to be in as an investor is to pick up the survivors or work with the people who have learned something after the fact and are willing to start over again in a few years.

What do you tell entrepreneurs or would-be entrepreneurs who are looking for venture capital funding?

Their potential markets have to be huge in order to attract VC investment. But that’s secondary to the people involved in a company. I always look for people who have a particular passion and who have something exceptional in their backgrounds. It could be that they’ve been part of a high-profile startup before, whether they started the company or just worked at it. It doesn’t really matter if it was massively successful or not. What’s more important is that they were exposed to that startup environment.

For instance, when I find people who’ve worked at Netscape, I just love it. I’d rather work with a midlevel guy from Netscape than a top guy who worked at IBM (IBM) for 20 years. I also like people who’ve gone to an exceptional school, because it shows me that at some point they were driven to accomplish something that was difficult to do.

I worked with a guy who was once a pro athlete. He did not graduate from college, yet he was a genius. I hired him for one of my companies just for his exceptional background. If entrepreneurs can show something like that, it makes them stand out and makes investors want to see them become successful.

How do entrepreneurs get your attention in the first place?

They must always have a personal introduction to us, because we will only look at sponsored deals. That means that somebody we know and respect in some way has introduced them to us. People we know from our past careers, professionally or personally, will send us e-mails and say, “This sounds like a great idea.”

If I got something like that, I would definitely take a look at it, and probably take a meeting on it. If it was a good deal, and we couldn’t do it, we might be willing to work with other VCs we know on it.

Is it always former colleagues who refer business ideas to you?

Not necessarily. A friend of mine got a deal from his barber. So you never know who has a good referral for you!

Do you get a lot of unsolicited business plans?

We probably get 500 plans a year, but we don’t read them. I did three startups and I never did a business plan. I just wrote a two-page executive summary, added detailed spreadsheets with the financials, and spent a massive amount of time on the PowerPoint presentation.

Why don’t you write business plans?

At the end of the day, VCs are sort of ADD [attention deficit disorder] in general, and most of us have the attention spans of 5-year-olds. If you show us everything in four bullets per page, we get it. But none of us are going to sit down and read 40 pages. Just make that PowerPoint incredibly compelling.

What kinds of deals does Rembrandt target?

We’re looking for early-stage companies who need $5 million to $8 million. Some of them are two to three guys with a great idea. For them, we may do $300,000 in seed-level funding so they can form their company, buy some computers, buy some whiteboards, and get started. We’re shooting for four- to five-year time frames, with seven to eight years on the outside.

You actually incubate some of the firms that you’ve invested in, is that right?

Yes. We’ve incubated, seeded, and started a third of our portfolio companies. I was the acting CEO of one of our companies for nine months while it got off the ground. It’s really rewarding, though it’s more an art than a science. The best part of it is that every company we’re involved in launching has gone on to somehow change the world through technology.

OBS, a new broadcast channel, opens at 11:00 a.m. on Dec. 28, Friday. The station will broadcast a 9-hour special to celebrate the opening of the new channel.

OBS is available on channel number 21 on analog televisions and channel 8 on digital ones. Check out the local cable/satellite broadcast service provider or OBS homepage (www.obs.co.kr) for more information.

BlackBerry owners may have noticed a new icon appearing on their devices in the past week: a link to Facebook. Some T-Mobile smartphones are getting the icon whether or not customers want them. Facebook spokespeople say users can still decide whether to download the software, but to privacy groups the unwanted icons spell intrusion, reports the San Jose Mercury News.  •  The Facebook link can be hidden but not deleted, a move that recalls the Beacon advertising system fiasco. Facebook says no information is shared among companies, but the head of the Center for Digital Democracy isn’t sold: “It illustrates a basic problem over at Facebook, which is their need to fatten their bank account is confounding their need to protect the privacy of their members.”

SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) — The person mauled to death by a Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas was 17-year-old Carlos Sousa of San Jose, California, the San Francisco medical examiner’s office said Wednesday.

The area where the 300-pound female named Tatiana killed the teen and attacked two men was declared a crime scene. The survivors, whose identities have not been released, are in stable condition, according to a surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital.

Ron Magill of the Miami Metro Zoo in Miami, Florida, told CNN that the Siberian tiger is “the most powerful cat on the face of this planet.”

Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Mollinedo was asked about an incident involving Tatiana last year. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the tiger chewed the flesh off a keeper’s arm during a public feeding demonstration. Mollinedo said Tatiana “was acting like a normal tiger” at the time, and that the zoo modified procedures to increase security.

The zoo remained closed Wednesday while officials investigated, Mollinedo said. The zoo is expected to reopen Thursday, but the lion house, the zoo’s big-cat exhibit, will remain closed “until we get a better understanding of what actually happened.”

Police shot and killed the tiger Tuesday as she attacked her second and third victims, Fong said.

“We have deemed the site, as of last night, a crime scene,” Fong said Wednesday. She said fire and police responded to emergency calls shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday. When police arrived, they saw the tiger “sitting next to a person on the ground,” and the tiger turned back and began attacking the person again, she said.

Officers yelled for the tiger to stop, and didn’t fire immediately “for fear that they would not be able to contain their fire,” she said. “When the yelling was occurring, the animal turned toward the officers,” who then shot and killed the animal, Fong said.

Dicker said the biggest concern was infection, and the two would remain on antibiotics after their release. The men were doing well because emergency medical service crews got them to the hospital so quickly Tuesday, and because of their good health and ages — 19 and 23.

California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health determined last year, after the first incident with Tatiana, that the zoo was at fault because of hazardous conditions in the lion house and a lack of specialized safety training for employees, according to the Chronicle. The lion house was closed for more than six months after the mauling, the paper reported, and the zoo made changes that the state safety division ordered.

Along with Siberian tigers, an endangered species, the zoo has rarer and smaller Sumatran tigers.

The Association of Zoos and Aquariums issued a statement expressing sympathy for the victims and support for the zoo.

“The San Francisco Zoo is a great zoo, it’s an accredited AZA member in good standing, and it has our support during this difficult time,” the statement said.

“They rested overnight after they were taken to the operating room for cleaning and closure of their wounds,” Dr. Rochelle Dicker told reporters. “Right now, I can tell you that they’re in good spirits, and they look absolutely fantastic.”

San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong said police secured the area to gather evidence and witness statements.

Earlier, authorities searched the San Francisco Zoo four times and are certain that there are no more victims of the tiger, which escaped from her pen. They used infrared and heat-sensing tools and also walked the area between where the tiger is believed to have gotten out of her cage and a cafe — a route of one-eighth of a mile — where the attacks took place.

“There were no other tigers that were lose in the zoo and no more victims,” Fong said Wednesday.

Tatiana was held in an exhibit area that included a 20-foot moat and an 18-foot wall, said zoo director Manuel Mollinedo. It’s possible the tiger jumped from her enclosure, but authorities have not determined how the animal escaped.

“AZA-accredited zoos are safe. Until this incident, there had not been a visitor fatality resulting from an animal escape at an AZA-accredited zoo.”

The group said the zoo’s independent Accreditation Commission would review the tiger attack.

The television industry delivered another blow to the advertising community yesterday when NBC announced that they would be “giving advertisers cash back for prime time ratings shortfalls from last season.” Along with the writer’s strike, this represents the perfect storm - television inventory is lower quality AND now in lower quantity.

This is a horrendous outcome for all parties involved. Clients miss key marketing opportunities in the most important marketing period of the year, agencies miss their targets which is a disservice to their clients and tv networks miss out on significant revenue opportunities.

Additionally, this problem is only going to get worse. The writer’s strike has negatively impacted television content quality and ratings, but the real hit in both categories has yet to come. Many shows have strung along previously filmed content but are about to reach the end of that rope. If money is flowing back to agencies this quarter, expect a large chunk to be searching for a new home in Q1.

Fortunately, not all media channels are struggling. At BrightRoll, our video inventory is growing in both quality and quantity. We have significant Q4 and Q1 inventory available for broadcast buyers who have budgets previously allocated to under performing television placements.

Although we expect advertising dollars to follow their audience online regardless - sometimes it takes a shock to the system to accelerate the adoption.

In November internet search engine rankings by comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR (NASDAQ: ), GoogleGOOG) again lead the pack, with 5.9 billion core searches conducted — a 58.6% market share of all searches in the internet. This was almost the exact same level as October.

Coming up a distant second (as usual) was Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) with market share of 22.4%. The next three were Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) at 9.8%, IAC/InterActiveCorp.’s (NASADAQ: IACI) Ask.com at 4.6% and Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) AOL at 4.5%. In November (a seasonally weak month for web searches), U.S. web searchers conducted 10 billion searches — a 5% decline from October.

Do these rankings surprise any web surfer? They shouldn’t — Google continues to dominate internet searches and Yahoo!’s Project Panama — although technically a job well done — is probably too late to the party to put any significant pressure on Google. Microsoft’s Live Search push has garnered it about the same market share as in the past (a decent third place). The power of first-mover advantage is quite evident in Google’s placement, and I’d suspect it’s not going anywhere soon.

SAN FRANCISCO -Steve Rubenstein- One zoo visitor was mauled to death and two others severely injured when a Siberian tiger escaped from its grotto at the San Francisco Zoo early Christmas evening and went on a bloody rampage in front of terrified zoo patrons.

The tiger - the same animal that chewed a keeper’s arm during an attack last December - was shot to death outside a zoo cafe by four officers who managed to distract the animal as it mauled one of its victims.

The horrifying violence, which occurred just after the zoo’s 5 p.m. closing time while dozens of patrons were still inside, began when the tiger somehow managed to gain its liberty from the grotto.

The animal, a 4-year-old tiger named Tatiana, did not leave the grotto through its only door, zookeepers said. The grotto is surrounded by a 15-foot-wide moat and a 20-foot-high wall.

“We don’t know how it was able to get out,” said Robert Jenkins, director of animal care at the zoo. “The tiger should not have been able to jump (out). This is the first thing we will be investigating.”

Police officers refused to rule out carelessness or criminal activity as possible means for the tiger’s escape.

The two injured men, ages 19 and 23, both underwent surgery Tuesday evening. The man who died, also thought to be in his 20s, was found near the tiger grotto, police said.

After the initial attack, the tiger proceeded about 300 yards to the Terrace Cafe restaurant, where it assaulted the other two victims with its claws and teeth.

Alerted by frantic calls from the zoo, four officers arrived in two police cars and tracked the tiger to the cafe. The tiger was sitting next to one victim but, when the officers arrived, it resumed its attack.

“The tiger jumped back on top,” police Sgt. Steve Mannina said. “The victim had blood on his face.”

The animal, distracted by the four officers and by the flashing red lights of the patrol cars, abandoned its victim and advanced toward the officers, Mannina said. The officers all fired their .40-caliber handguns, striking the tiger an unknown number of times.

John Brown, an emergency room physician at San Francisco General Hospital, said the two injured men suffered deep bites and claw cuts to their heads and upper bodies. They were able to talk about the attack, although they were not thoroughly questioned Tuesday evening. The men could be released from the hospital as early as today, officials said.

The zoo will be closed today out of respect for the unnamed victims. At daybreak, officers and firefighters will comb the 1,000-acre zoo grounds. Officials said they could not rule out the possibility that there were other victims, even though there were no initial reports of missing persons.

In the hours after the attack, the scene at the zoo was surreal, with shotgun-toting officers marching outside the south entrance. Firefighters stood atop tall ladders and shined bright arc lights into the treetops and foliage, searching for victims and animals. Zookeepers who had been evacuated from the grounds stood together in small groups outside the gate, quietly consoling one another and weeping.

Despite earlier warnings, the other zoo tigers never escaped into the public areas, said San Francisco Fire Department spokesman Lt. Ken Smith.

At the time of Tuesday’s attack, the zoo had two Siberian and three Sumatran tigers. According to the zoo, more humans die each year in tiger attacks than in attacks by any other animal, although such incidents are still rare because tigers normally avoid people.

On Dec. 22, 2006, the 350-pound Tatiana chewed the flesh off Lori Komejan’s arm during a public feeding demonstration. A state investigation later ruled that the zoo was at fault for the attack because of the way the cages were configured.

A June report from the state Division of Occupation Safety and Health blamed the San Francisco Zoo for the 2006 attack, stating that the tiger cages were configured in a way that made it possible for Tatiana to bite the zookeeper’s arm. The state found that Komejan was attacked after she reached through a drain trough to retrieve an item near the tiger’s side of the cage. The tiger reached under the cage bars and grabbed her right arm, but the zookeeper tried to push the tiger away using her other arm, the report found.

Both of her arms were under the cage at that point and her face was pressed against the cage bars, according to the report. Another employee grabbed a long-handled squeegee and hit the tiger in the head until it released the injured zookeeper.

The public feedings at the Lion House resumed in September after about $250,000 in safety upgrades.