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...names many zookeepers hear every day as children gazing at meerkats, warthogs and lion cubs recall the characters from Disney's 1994 hit The Lion King. "The popularity of these animals in the last three years has been amazing," says Greg Hudson, director of the Fort Worth (Texas) Zoo. "It's great. We can take that and educate [more kids] about the social structure of those animals...
...happy chance, warthogs and meerkats also make neat zoo animals. Unlike most desert creatures, including lions, both are busy during the day. Warthogs wallow in mud (it's their sunscreen) and throw clumps of it at one another. Meerkats, highly gregarious, dig and perch cutely on their haunches. While no zoo admits to choosing its new guests because of a movie, several will have suspiciously Lion King-appropriate exhibitions open this summer, notably Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Fla., which has an "Edge of Africa" safari based on the Serengeti, where the movie was set; and the Oklahoma City Zoo...
...said a victim's relative in disbelief. "Not in a town where people tip cows for fun." Franklin was a place where the local cultural establishment was the Mineral Museum, where the arrows for fun (ski resorts, zoo, theme park) point out of town. Now Franklin is the town where Thomas Koskovich, 18, and Jayson Vreeland, 17, allegedly spent part of Saturday night calling area pizzerias for two plain cheese pies, finally enticing two deliverymen to an abandoned house on Scott Road...
...National Zoo Deputy Director Mac Hudson yesterday on the health of Hsing-Hsing, the panda who was delivered to the United States exactly 25 years ago as a gift from the People's Republic of China...
...happens, a Harvard woman won the Hot Buns Contest at The Zoo this past week. This contest, (not so different from the other nights' wet t-shirt and bikini contests) entails getting on stage with several other women and showing most of your merchandise to a crowd of 300 or so; she who elicits the most grunts and yells, wins. There are male equivalents (though fewer of them) to these contests, such as the Hot Bod Contest. In sum, many students of both sexes, while away from their respective colleges, decide to "let loose" and party hardly in a most...