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Tanya Peterson

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    Banana-Sam: Cops Asking Questions After Zoo Claimed "No Questions Asked"

    ​The San Francisco Zoo may have made a monkey out of the man who graciously returned Banana-Sam, the celebrity critter who was brazenly snatched from the zoo on Friday. Just a few hours after the squirrel monkey was discovered missing last week, SF Weekly talked to Tanya Peterson, the executive di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Banana-Sam, Adorable Squirrel Monkey, Stolen from S.F. Zoo

    Did we mention he's on a special diet?​The San Francisco Zoo is scrambling to track down the person or people who brazenly stole an adult squirrel monkey from the zoo overnight. According to Tanya Peterson, executive director of the zoo, the monkey thieves cut through the outside gate of the zoo, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Martha, the New Tiger in Town

    Martha reportedly eats chickens and rabbits, not nachos ​Nearly four years after Tatiana the tiger was shot to death when she leaped from her cage at the San Francisco Zoo and went on a bloody rampage, mauling Carlos Sousa Jr. to death, the zoo has brought in a new big feline for onlookers to admi ... More >>

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