Following the fatal mauling of a 17-year-old visitor and the serious wounding of two of his friends, the San Francisco Zoo has construction teams working 'round the clock checking the enclosures of all its large animal exhibits. It turns out the 4-foot wall protecting the public from the polar bears was deemed to low by experts. The zoo also has allowed visitors to pay their respects to Tatiana, (pictured right) the 350-pound Siberian tiger shot and killed by police after the attack. The thought of someone being attacked by a polar bear in the middle of San Francisco would have been, at one time, an absurd scenario. But then who could have envisioned what took place Christmas Eve? Incidentally, we're hopeful additional witnesses will come forward to either support or disprove one woman's account that the young men may have been taunting the tiger.
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