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Tiger, Tiger

Creatures Great and Small Live Together on Noah's Land

By Kate X Messer, August 4, 2000, News

Sugar came from the Russian circus and lived for the most part off candy apples and cinnamon rolls. Life in a two-by-four-foot enclosure under the big top is no romance for a bear. Sugar was beaten regularly, severely enough to have become blind in one eye. One day she swatted at her keeper, an instinctive act for which she was left in Oklahoma and abandoned.

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