Zoo Has a Valentine for Sweetheart Who Bugs You
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<i> Associated Press</i>
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Forget the candy and flowers. The Knoxville Zoo offered a different Valentine’s Day present for that special someone--a red-ribboned cockroach.
For $10, the zoo sells Valentine’s Day adoption papers for a pair of cockroaches aptly named Romeo and Juliet. Among the zoo’s 800 animals are 70 giant, hissing Madagascar roaches.
The adoption papers included a card, a T-shirt iron-on decal, a car window sticker saying “Zoo Parent” and a 3-inch-long black plastic bug with a red bow around it.
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