‘You can be sure that the directors of other zoos have their tape measures out now.’

The Mercury News has a report on the oversight weakness at the nation’s zoos.

“With a wall only 12 1/2 feet high, he said ‘the tiger can almost stand up and reach it’ and would have little difficulty escaping ‘with a little bit of a hop.'”

In other words, tigers have been on good behavior at zoos and San Francisco’s inadequacies may or may not have been an exception.