Tiger provoked
Thursday 16 June 1994 23:02 BST
CommentsA man was recovering in hospital after his finger was bitten off by a tiger at the Cotswold Wildlife Park, Burford, Oxfordshire. John Nike, 27, a resident of the Oxford night shelter, vaulted a fence into an enclosure and tried to stroke the 14-year-old Begum.
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