[QUOTE] NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The Bronx Zoo is offering entomology-minded romantics the perfect Valentine's Day gift: Naming a cockroach in honor of their love.
The [URL="http://bronxzoo.com/roach"]Bronx Zoo said[/URL] $10 allows a potential suitor to name a Madagascar hissing cockroach for the object of their affection and they will receive a digital certificate showing that one of the zoo's tens of thousands of roaches share their name.
The zoo said the next level of roach-naming gift, for $25, includes a printed roach name certificate along with a confection from the Nunu Chocolate company of Brooklyn.
"Your donation will also help us protect these misunderstood love bugs, along with a lot of other animals, both big and small," the zoo said. "As they say, roaches make the heart beat faster."
The zoo has run [URL="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/02/11/Zoo-Name-a-cockroach-for-your-Valentine/78921297416600/"]similar promotions[/URL] in the past, and the San Francisco Zoo took a page out of the Bronx Zoo's playbook last year and allowed scorned Valentines to adopt cockroaches and scorpions in honor of "your favorite ex."
Source: [url]http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2016/01/22/Bronx-Zoo-Name-a-cockroach-for-your-Valentine/5231453469798/?spt=sec&or=on[/url]
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hell no
firebomb the roaches
[quote]allowed scorned Valentines to adopt cockroaches and scorpions in honor of "your favorite ex."[/quote]
Oh thats fucking great.
That's not really fair. Something that eats garbage, randomly mates, manages to make a mess and forces you to rethink how you friggin' exist?
What a harsh thing to end up naming a roach after.
Instantly reminds me up The Oatmeal
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Madagascar hissing cockroaches are the shit, people are too scared to isolate something that's in a dumpster then these chill dudes.
Besides they sound like servos.
Isn't the point of a zoo to display creatures that are't native to the region, exotic to the viewer? Who the hell would look at roaches in a zoo in the Bronx?
[QUOTE=Ridge;49594000]Isn't the point of a zoo to display creatures that are't native to the region, exotic to the viewer? Who the hell would look at roaches in a zoo in the Bronx?[/QUOTE]
It may be a native region exhibit, there are lots of those at zoos in the US now to make people appreciate things that live in their town.
Probably from one of the insect exhibits, and knowing that roaches breed like motherfuckers, they probably use them to feed animals.
[QUOTE=Ridge;49594000]Isn't the point of a zoo to display creatures that are't native to the region, exotic to the viewer? Who the hell would look at roaches in a zoo in the Bronx?[/QUOTE]
Hipsters?
[QUOTE=Ridge;49594000]Isn't the point of a zoo to display creatures [b]that are't native to the region, exotic to the viewer[/b]? Who the hell would look at roaches in a zoo in the Bronx?[/QUOTE]
[Quote][b]Madagascar[/b] hissing cockroach[/Quote]
[sp]Granted, German, American, Brown-Banded, Smokey Brown and Oriental cockroaches, which are the main five species that invade houses (since most species actually don't, including the ones native to the USA), are actually invasive exotics as well. However, Madagascan roaches are renowned for their noise-making and larger-than-usual size[/sp].
Aren't roaches really clean due to some oil or something on them?
[QUOTE=Broguts;49594355]Aren't roaches really clean due to some oil or something on them?[/QUOTE]
not german cockroaches, they carry shittons of diseases.
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