{"id":1302,"date":"2008-01-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/31\/tatiana-update\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T12:00:00","slug":"tatiana-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/tatiana-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatiana Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tatiana was the tiger that<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/tatiana_is_telling_us_somethin.php\"> leaped from its enclosure in the San Francisco Zoo,<\/a> killing one and wounding others.Details of the investigation have been released, and apparently, the tiger was taunted.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the three victims of a San Francisco Zoo tiger attack was intoxicated and admitted to yelling and waving at the animal while standing atop the railing of the big cat enclosure, police say in court documents.Paul Dhaliwal, 19, told the father of Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, who was killed, that the three yelled and waved at the tiger but insisted they never threw anything into its pen to provoke the cat, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained Thursday by the San Francisco Chronicle.&#8221;As a result of this investigation, (police believe) that the tiger may have been taunted\/agitated by its eventual victims,&#8221; according to Inspector Valerie Matthews, who prepared the affidavit. Police believe that &#8220;this factor contributed to the tiger escaping from its enclosure and attacking its victims,&#8221; she said.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/US\/01\/18\/tiger.attack.ap\/index.html?iref=newssearch\">[source]<\/a>[hat tip: CMF]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you go to that CNN site you can see a video regarding the first responders delayed response, and the usual chilling tape of one of the 911 calls.Don&#8217;t taunt the tigers, man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tatiana was the tiger that leaped from its enclosure in the San Francisco Zoo, killing one and wounding others.Details of the investigation have been released, and apparently, the tiger was taunted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[203,174],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-l0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}