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SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco officials have taken a step to try to ensure that the city is reimbursed for $75,000 in medical bills incurred by one of two brothers mauled by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo last Christmas. In a filing this week in federal court, officials said the city wanted to be compensated for the cost of treating Kulbir Dhaliwal, now 24, at the city-run San Francisco General Hospital after the attack. The document, a medical reimbursement lien, was filed Wednesday in connection with proceedings in a federal lawsuit filed against the city and by Dhaliwal...

Records: SF Tiger 'Frantic For Food' Before Attack SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / KCBS) ― The tiger that attacked and killed a teenager on Christmas day had lost 50 pounds since arriving at the San Francisco Zoo as a young and healthy animal two years earlier, raising concerns about whether she was getting enough to eat. A KCBS Radio investigation of zoo records shows Tatiana arrived in San Francisco in December 2005 weighing 292 pounds. She was entering the prime of her life at two and a half years old. When she was shot and killed by police in December...

Two months after a Siberian tiger mauled three men at the San Francisco Zoo - resulting in the death of one of them - two other men were allegedly caught late Thursday throwing pine cones and acorns at the zoo's two black rhinos. Both men were cited by San Francisco animal control for violating a park code that prohibits disturbing the animals, officials said. Zoo officials said the rhinos, which are endangered, did not appear agitated by the incident. "I heard one of the men took a branch from a tree and claimed they were trying to get their attention,"...

SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- Police are investigating whether several items found in the enclosure of a tiger who fatally mauled a 17-year-old man show that the animal was attacked or taunted, San Francisco Zoo spokesman Sam Singer said Wednesday. Police are examining a large rock, a tree branch and other items, Singer said. "They [police] are trying to make a determination that those items or any other things that happened on Christmas Day were part of some attack on the tiger or something that angered Tatiana, causing her to come out of her cage," the spokesman said. San Francisco...