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...Like monkeys at the zoo, tourists are at Harvard to be seen and laughed at. Don’t feed them dining hall scraps and please, don’t touch. Especially since the last thing they came into contact with was probably John Harvard’s foot...
...under all that pressure, the Sox continue to collapse. They don’t make the playoffs when they have talent up the wah-zoo. When they do, they come up with different ways of losing every year...
...They haven't eaten a Westerner for 40 years." Reg Barker, travel guide for a competition by British magazine Zoo Weekly. The winner will be sent with Barker to Papua New Guinea to live for two weeks with a tribe of cannibals
...trees with twisted roots, rubber plants sprouting bell-shaped flowers, raffia palms, orchids and periwinkles. As you pass a large tortoise hovering under a fern and shriek at a fruit bat flying over your head, you may wonder whether you are still in Zurich. And that's how the zoo's director, Alex R?bel, intended it. Opened in June 2003, after a decade of planning and construction, the j33.5 million project boasts such high-tech features as light-sensitive roof foil that maintains high temperature and humidity, a waterfall and man-made rain from sprinklers pouring...
Zurich is about the last place in the world you'd expect to see a red-ruffed lemur or panther chameleon-in the middle of the alpine winter, no less. But the city's zoo on Zurichbergstrasse is a tropical jungle all year round. The 10,000-sq-m greenhouse is one of the world's largest man-made rain forests: its humidity and temperature faithfully re-create the climate and ecosystem of the endangered rain forest on Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula...