SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Officials at San Francisco Zoo & Gardens sadly announce the passing of its Sumatran tiger, “Leanne,” yesterday. Leanne had lived at San Francisco Zoo for over 15 years and was an important ambassador of her species. At 18 years, 8 months, she was considered a geriatric animal, outliving by more than eight years her species’ life expectancy. Results from a necropsy are pending though her health had been recently declining.

“We truly are heartbroken over the loss of elegant Leanne, the matriarch of our Sumatran tiger breeding program,” said Tanya M. Peterson, CEO and Executive Director of San Francisco Zoological Society. “She was a wonderful animal in all ways and was instrumental in helping us and other zoos conserve this critically endangered tiger subspecies. Not only were her markings uniquely stunning, but she was a charismatic individual who captured the hearts of millions of SF Zoo visitors during her long tenure here. She will be sorely missed.”

Leanne, named after the late San Francisco Zoological Society donor and philanthropist, Leanne Roberts (the late first wife of billionaire George Roberts), was born at the Toronto Zoo in 2003 and transferred to SF Zoo & Gardens in 2006. Over her 15 years here , she had two male companions, but it was “Larry,” a male Sumatran, who was her longtime companion before his passing in 2020. Their daughter, “Jillian,” achieved local fame when the late comedian Robin Williams auctioned off her naming rights at a fundraiser in 2014.

Leanne was a devoted and successful mother from the beginning. In 2008, Leanne had a litter comprised of three male cubs, who have since sired 11 cubs all together at the different zoos they were ultimately transferred to, including the Berlin Zoo. One of these offspring later had five cubs, making Leanne a “great-grandmother.” Leanne and Larry were parents to “Jillian,” born in 2013 who recently transferred to San Diego Wild Animal Park to breed her own litter.

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens is home to the Animal Wellness & Conservation Center, which specializes in non-surgical alternatives for animals and worked with Leanne to condition her for “awake” ultrasounds throughout her pregnancies. The accumulated knowledge from working with Leanne over the years contributed greatly to what is known about tiger breeding and nutrition.

“Leanne was a favorite of staff because of her willingness to participate in conditioning exercises, yet Zoo visitors loved her because she would sleep on her heated rock located next to a viewing window. Even in her old age, she loved to play, and one of her favorite toys was a green boomer ball,” said Ron Whitfield, Curator of Carnivores.

Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) are native to Sumatra, on Indonesia island. According to the IUCN Red List, an estimated 400-600 Sumatran tigers remain in the wild, and they remain on a declining trend.

This press release was produced by San Francisco Zoo & Gardens. The views expressed here are the author’s own.

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Tiger King star Allen Glover is detained at the Beaufort County Detention Center in South Carolina after being arrested for driving an open container, driving with a license revoked and driving under the influence of alcohol.

The BC sheriff’s department pulled the former handyman from Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park Wednesday at 10 p.m. due to a “defect in his vehicle,” according to TMZ.

Allen – whose first prison term was at the age of 18 – was arrested in the parking lot of a strip club in Valley Brook, OK, just 14 months earlier for a DUI not driving.

Caught! Tiger King star Allen Glover is detained at the Beaufort County Detention Center in South Carolina after being arrested for driving an open container, driving with a license revoked and driving under the influence of alcohol

Joe “Exotic” Maldonado Passage famously paid Glover $ 3,000 to cut off the head of his archenemy – Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin – but he never intended to.

The 58-year-old former roadside zoo owner then offered an undercover FBI agent $ 10,000 to “follow the 60-year-old big cat rights activist into a mall parking lot and just lock her up and drive off.”

Joe spent the last three years in Grady County Jail in Chickasha, OK; but the Denver 10th District Court of Appeals ruled on July 14 that his 22-year sentence was reduced to 17 for technical reasons.

Maldonado Passage regularly updates fans on social media about his legal path to obtain a pardon and fully challenge his conviction.

Remember him The BC sheriff’s department pulled the former Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park craftsman Wednesday at 10pm because of a “defect in his vehicle.”

Mug shot 2020: Allen – whose first jail time was at the age of 18 – was arrested in the parking lot of a strip club in Valley Brook, OK, just 14 months earlier for a DUI not driving

Key witness: Joe ‘Exotic’ Maldonado-Passage famously paid Glover $ 3,000 to cut off the head of his arch enemy, Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin (R), but he never intended to

“The truth will land in President Biden’s lap. Thanks to Jeff [Lowe] for giving out everything he recorded while Agent Bryant and Amanda Green were obstructing justice, committed perjuries and conspired to kidnap me, ”the openly gay polygamist with guns wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.

“And Carole and Howard” [Baskin] are right in the middle. Thanks Jeff, James [Garretson], and Allen [Glover]. Now let’s add [John Reinke] to my witnesses and we got that done. Even my oldest brother performed. Pity [my ex-‘husband’] John Finlay doesn’t. ‘

Joe’s attorney, John M. Phillips, posted a video Tuesday of meeting her “secret weapon,” Jeff Lowe, who briefly took over Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park.

Joe’s mug shot from 2018: The 58-year-old former roadside zoo owner (pictured) then offered an undercover FBI agent $ 10,000 to follow the 60-year-old big cat rights activist “into a parking lot in a mall and simply cover her and “drive away”

‘I’m Done with the Carole Baskin Saga’: Joe spent the last three years in Grady County Jail in Chickasha, OK; but the Denver 10th District Court of Appeals ruled on July 14 that his 22-year sentence was reduced to 17 for technical reasons

“The truth will fall into President Biden’s lap.”

“#Freejoeexotic”: Joe’s attorney John M. Phillips (L) posted a video on Tuesday in which he meets her “secret weapon” Jeff Lowe (R), who briefly took over the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park

Despite its myriad of flaws, Maldonado Passage is certainly a colorful character who ran for both president and governor of Oklahoma in 2016.

Meanwhile, Hedwig and the Angry Inch’s John Cameron Mitchell is working hard on the Australian set of the limited Peacock series Joe Exotic, which is also streamed on NBC and USA Network.

Kate McKinnon of SNL produces and plays Carole Baskin alongside Dennis Quaid, Kyle MacLachlan, William Fichtner, Brian Van Holt, Joel Marsh Garland, Dean Winters and Lex Mayson.

Spin-off series is coming: Meanwhile, John Cameron Mitchell of Hedwig and the Angry Inch (pictured on Jan.

Accumulation of over 34 million viewers! Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness ranked first on Netflix’s Top 10 Most-Streamed Netflix Lists for 25 days between March and April 2020

Here, Kitty Kitty: The eight-part documentary series by directing duo Eric Goode & Rebecca Chaikli really became a pop culture phenomenon in the age of COVID-19 quarantine, spawning a number of spin-offs

Justin Tipping directs the series’ first four episodes based on 2020 Robert Moors Wondery podcasts, Joe Exotic and Over My Dead Body.

Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness ranked # 1 on Netflix’s top 10 most-streamed list for 25 days in a row between March and April 2020 – with over 34 million viewers.

The eight-part documentaries by directing duo Eric Goode & Rebecca Chaikli became a real pop culture phenomenon in the age of COVID-19 quarantine and spawned a number of spin-offs.

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Tiger Global Management, the New York-based investment powerhouse, is raising a new $ 3.75 billion venture fund called Tiger Private Investment Partners XIV, which is slated to close in March, according to a recent letter to its investors.

Despite its title – partners may be superstitious – the fund is Tiger Global’s thirteenth venture fund, and it follows the company’s twelfth venture fund, which closed exactly a year ago and also has $ 3.75 billion in capital commitments Has.

A company spokesman declined to comment this morning on the letter or Tiger Global’s broader fundraising strategy.

It’s a lot of capital to target even in the midst of a sea of ​​huge new venture vehicles. New Enterprise Associates closed its newest fund for $ 3.6 billion last year. Lightspeed Venture Partners announced $ 4 billion in three funds shortly thereafter. Andreessen Horowitz, the youngest of the three companies, announced in November that it had closed two funds totaling $ 4.5 billion.

At the same time, Tiger Global apparently has a strong argument to introduce potential limited partners. In the past year alone, numerous portfolio companies went public or were taken over.

Yatsen Holding, the nearly five-year-old parent company of China-based cosmetics giant Perfect Diary, went public in November and is now valued at $ 14 billion. (Tiger Global’s involvement didn’t deserve a mention in the company’s regulatory filings.)

Tiger Global also tacitly invested in cloud-based data warehousing company Snowflake, and while it wasn’t big enough to be included in the company’s S-1, even a tiny ownership stake would be valuable as Snowflake is now on Estimated $ 85 billion.

Tiger Global backed Root Insurance, a nearly six-year insurance company based in Columbus, Ohio that went public in November and currently has a market cap of $ 5.3 billion. Tiger owned 10.3%, which went into the offer.

The story goes on

As for mergers and acquisitions, Tiger Global saw at least three of its companies swallowed up by larger tech companies in 2020, including selling all of Postmates’ shares to Uber for $ 2.65 billion; the sale of $ 7 billion in cash and stock of Credit Karma to Intuit; and the sale of Kustomer, which focused on customer service platforms and chatbots, to Facebook for $ 1 billion.

Tiger Global, with roots in hedge fund management, launched its private equity business in 2003, led by Chase Coleman, who previously worked for Tiger Management for hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson; and Scott Shleifer, who joined the company in 2002 after three years with the Blackstone Group. Lee Fixel, who was supposed to be an important contributor to the business, joined in 2006.

Shleifer focused on China, Fixel focused on India and the rest of the company’s support team (which now employs 22 investment professionals) helped find business in Brazil and Russia before it began to look more aggressively on opportunities in the US focus

Each investment decision was ultimately made by each of the three. Fixel left the company in 2019 to start his own investment firm Addition. Now Shleifer and Coleman are the sole decision makers in the company.

Whether the company will eventually replace Fixel is an open question, though it doesn’t seem like the plan. Tiger Global is known for encouraging investors into its operations rather than hiring outsiders, so a new top lieutenant would almost certainly come from its current team.

Meanwhile, the company’s private equity arm, which has written everything from Series A (Warby Parker) checks to checks for hundreds of millions of dollars, currently manages $ 30 million in assets compared to its 49 Billions of dollars, the Tiger is being handled more broadly.

A year ago, Tiger Global, which has 100 employees, reportedly managed assets of $ 36.2 billion.

According to the company’s investor letter, the company’s gross internal return for its 12 previous funds is 32% while the net IRR is 24%.

Tiger Global’s investors include a mix of sovereign wealth funds, trusts, trusts, pensions and its own employees who, taken together, are currently considered the company’s largest investors.

Tiger Global’s biggest wins to date included a $ 200 million bet on e-commerce giant JD.com, which grossed the company $ 5 billion. It also settled more than $ 1 billion on China’s online services platform Meituan, which went public in 2018, according to WSJ.

Tiger Global also reportedly raised $ 3 billion from the majority sale of India’s Flipkart to Walmart in 2018, although the Indian government has recently attempted to reclaim $ 1.9 billion from the company, claiming it did have outstanding taxes on the sale of their stake in the company.

A finding that might surprise even Tiger Global’s investors, who are affiliated with the related fitness company Peloton, which at the time of Peloton’s 2019 IPO (a deal that Fixel allegedly brought to the table with Flipkart) was 20% owned. With the addition of new users during the pandemic, Peloton – which was valued at $ 4 billion by private investors and instantly doubled as a public company – now has a market cap of $ 48.6 billion.

Tiger Global has invested its current fund in around 50 companies over the past 12 months.

The latest bets include Blend, an eight-year-old San Francisco-based digital lending platform, which yesterday announced $ 300 million in Series G funding, including Coatue, with a post-money rating of 3.3 Announced billions of dollars.

It also spearheaded the newly announced $ 450 million Series C Round for Checkout.com, an eight-year-old London-based online payments platform now valued at $ 15 billion. And it wrote a follow-up check to Cockroach Labs, the nearly six-year-old New York-based SQL distributed database that has just raised $ 160 million in Series E funding valued at $ 2 billion just eight months after raising $ 86.6 million Round D.

Another of their newest and biggest bets is focused on the online education platform Zuowebang in China. Back in June, Tiger Global spearheaded a $ 750 million Series E round at the company.

It came back last month, spearheading a $ 1.6 billion round in the distance learning company.

Pictured: Scott Shleifer, Partner and Head of Private Equity at Tiger Global Management, right, speaks to an attendee during the UJA-Federation of New York Wall Street Dinner in New York, on Wednesday, December 14, 2011.

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