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...weeks ago the foot of San Francisco Chronicle Executive Editor Phil Bronstein was severely damaged in an attack by a 10-foot Komodo dragon at the Los Angeles zoo. Sharon Stone had arranged the visit to the zoo as a present for her husband. She talks to TIME's Jess Cagle about the accident...
Going to the zoo used to mean gawking at giraffes and, if you were really lucky, peeking at a panda. But the newest concept in zoos aims to connect kids to nature by encouraging them to get down and dirty with it: in between their animal encounters, the kids can slosh in mud, explore caves and hunt for bugs. Brookfield Zoo, outside Chicago, will open its play zoo this week, offering children (for a $2 fee; $4 for adults) the chance to dress up as lemurs as they swing alongside real ones, or build a house made of sticks...
...STARTED Like many parents, zoo curators are looking for ways to give kids unstructured playtime and a connection to nature...
...sense of the word, but it has a full keyboard and a pink-and-lavender mouse (with matching mouse pad), and it talks in that inimitable Barbie voice--it sounds like Britney Spears huffing helium. The B-Book comes preloaded with 50 educational games,including Search 'n' Spell, Zoo Clues and, uh, Shop 'til You Drop...
...After drawing their millionth visitor to the National Zoo, these pandas...