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In the wake of a deadly tiger attack in California, how safe is the Houston Zoo?

6:11 AM Thu, Dec 27, 2007 |
Stacy Fox
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After you enter the Houston Zoo, you'd have to get through three locked doors -- two of them made of heavy reinforced steel -- in order to get to the Malayan tigers.

More importantly, those doors and heavy steel cages are there to keep the tigers from getting to you.

Houston Zoo curator Hollie Colahan said the Houston Zoo's Lexan barriers, sheer unclimbable rock walls and a secondary electrical system are installed to keep Houston Zoo visitors safe.

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