Following news that the University of California, Berkeley’s on-campus bar the Bear’s Lair is closing in May 2025, comes another closure that’ll hurt deep for alum at another Bay Area school. San ...

In the mid-1940s a lion attacked a keeper, and in 1949 a different polar bear mauled a house painter who tried to stick a sugar cube through the bars; his arm was amputated. The San Francisco Zoo ...