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Bo-Bo the Tiger Shot and Killed in Florida

NPR

By Alex Chadwick

Published July 14, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Alex Chadwick speaks to Hertha Horner of Loxahatchee, Fla., about the death of Bo-Bo the tiger. Bo-Bo escaped from the home of a former actor who once played Tarzan in films. The tiger showed up in Horner's yard shortly after its escape.

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