Friday, June 22, 2012

Zoo news, part 2


Hmm. In contrast to the Bronx Zoo, which has had a problem keeping the critters inside its boundaries, the Oakland Zoo is taking in non-paying guests.

(You’ll recall that within a couple of months last year the Bronx Zoo lost both a cobra & a peahen. Both restored (so we’re told); but who knows what other exotic animals got out that the press never got wind of?)

No—Oakland Zoo has apparently become a destination for local fauna. Skunks, foxes, coyotes, wild turkeys & deer—they’ve all found ways to break into the zoo. & stay. & enjoy relative security & seemingly never-closing buffet.

I like the idea that the zoo co-exists with the natives. 

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