Joseph's other credits include the fine off-Broadway "Gruesome Playground Injuries, " which tells a love story through lovers' scars, and Broadway's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, " a Pulitzer Prize finalist in drama about the Iraq war starring Robin Williams.

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McLane's other credits include the recent revival of "The Heiress" with Jessica Chastain, the current "Nice Work If You Can Get It" with Matthew Broderick, the last revivals of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" and "Follies, " the show "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" with Robin Williams, and the Tony winning revival of "Anything Goes, " which is currently on a national tour.

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Or so he thinks, until he hauls back the tarpaulin and discovers the zoo's tiger, Richard Parker, is sitting in there with him.

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New York (CNN) -- The 25-year-old man who jumped from a monorail car into the Bronx Zoo's tiger den was not drunk or insane, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

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At the time, some theorised that a male tiger shark kept at the zoo could have been the father - but the institution's three bonnethead females had none of the bite marks that are usually inflicted on their gender during shark sex.

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From there, we rode to Notre-Dame cathedral, which we explored before switching to even more exotic transport the Batobus, a boat that not only took us east to the Jardin des Plantes botanic gardens and a zoo (whose tiger Madeline tells, "pooh-pooh") but also beneath the Pont Neuf, the bridge Madeline teeters atop (in the first book) and falls from (in the second).

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Oz arrived at Hamilton Zoo from Auckland Zoo in 2013 to be matched up with a female tiger, Sali, who later gave birth to two cubs, according to TVNZ.

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The exhibit is called Tiger Mountain and houses Siberian tigers as well as Malayan tigers, according to the Bronx Zoo's website.

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