California ? It’s been a long wait for their fans but Tony the tiger, Kimani the lion and the rest of the big cat crew at the San Francisco Zoo will be back on display today.

Even Padang, the 18-year-old Sumatran tiger who is the oldest of the zoo’s big cats, will get her turn in the renovated outdoor grottoes. Padang has been in a separate exhibit while she recovered from hip surgery.

The big cats were stuck indoors after Tatiana, a Siberian tiger, escaped on Christmas Day and fatally mauled Carlos Sousa Jr. and injured Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal, all of San Jose.

After $1.7 million in safety upgrades to the grottoes and a successful re-introduction of the animals to their modified outdoor playgrounds, a zoo official said the big cats will be back on public display today, rain or shine.