Day Around the Bay: SF Zookeeper Chased By Grizzly Bear In Near-Miss Incident

Day Around the Bay: SF Zookeeper Chased By Grizzly Bear In Near-Miss Incident

The Chronicle has a not-wildly-damning exposé on safety conditions for staffers at the San Francisco Zoo, which the zoo's board dismisses as "predicated on outdated or simply untrue information" and "uniformly objectionable and baseless." The piece includes a newly reported incident from May 2023 in which one zookeeper was chased by a grizzly bear that had gotten through an improperly closed gate, but was uninjured. [Chronicle]Alexander Martinez…