Siegfried and Roy to perform for charity event

Las Vegas showmen Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn plan a one-off comeback show five years after a tiger attack ended their 30-year run in Las Vegas.

The single show will be part of a charity event to be held in February for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute.

Their publicist, Dave Kirvin, said they may be planning to perform with exotic animals.

"Siegfried and Roy and white lions and other endangered animals go hand in hand," he said.

The German-born duo started performing in Las Vegas in 1972.

In 2003, Horn, who had years of experience working with animals, was hurt when his white tiger Montecore took him by the neck and dragged him offstage.

Fischbacher and Horn now say they believe Montecore knew Horn was having a stroke and was trying to save him.

Fischbacher told Larry King in 2006 that Montecore may have been attempting to carry Horn by the scruff of the neck, as a mother tiger carries her babies.

Reports say Horn's long recuperation was not a result of blood loss from the tiger's bite, but brain damage from a stroke.

He suffered partial paralysis and had to learn to walk again.

The Lou Ruvo Brain Institute, designed by architect Frank Gehry, is set to open in downtown Las Vegas next year.