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...idea was to open a store that would sell children a good time along with their reading material. Wild Rumpus is part zoo, with a couple of chickens named Dalai and Elvis (which kids chase around), along with cats, tarantulas, fish and birds. Boys play poker in the store's Haunted Shack, which sits atop a Plexiglas surface that exposes a gray rat colony below. Saturday afternoons feature offbeat activities like sheep shearing. Customer Carrie Watson's toddler Isabel loves the Monday story readings and the animals. "I would much rather visit an independent than a large store anyway," says...
...replenish the animals' food supply. The best hope for the lynx is a captive breeding program, one of which may start soon in Doñana, where three female lynx await a suitable male. But these haven't proved successful in the past. "A national park is not a zoo," Delibes says. "The lynx are still wild animals who have to fend for themselves." To survive, though, they might need a little help from their friends...
...written poetry, essays, short stories and two appallingly bad novels. I'd failed at all branches of literature. At my place at 238 West Fourth Street, I typed on a massive old typewriter I had stolen--"liberated," I called it--from Western Union. In three weeks I produced The Zoo Story, based partly on some of the characters I met delivering telegrams...
...best maintained section of the wall surrounds Xuanwu Lake Park. The lake, which was once used for naval exercises during the Song dynasty, has five tiny islands connected by bridges and graced with elegant teahouses, restaurants, gardens, pavilions, an open-air theater and even a zoo. Although the main entrance to the park is on Zhongyang Lu, I like to go in through Jiefang Men (Liberation Gate) as it is less touristy. Inside, you'll find old men fishing and people picnicking, paddleboating or riding tandem bicycles. (Bicycles and paddleboats can be rented for just more than a dollar...
...could have become the hero of the floods." VIT KAHLE, Prague Zoo spokesman, lamenting the death by exhaustion of Gaston, a seal who escaped his enclosure as flood waters rose and swam 300 km before expiring...