This Zoo Will Name a Cockroach After Your Ex, Then Feed It to a Meerkat on Valentine’s Day!
This Zoo Will Name a Cockroach After Your Ex, Then Feed It to a Meerkat on Valentine’s Day!
Every so often someone has an idea that is pure genius. Something so clever that the rest of us wonder why this amazing new concept wasn’t already a thing. This is one of those times.
A zoo in Texas has initiated an absolutely genius promotion in time for Valentine’s Day. They will name a cockroach after your ex, add the bug’s new name to their Facebook hall of fame, then feed it to a cute little meerkat streamed live on the meerkat webcam on Valentine’s Day.
This is next level stuff, people.
“This is a fun way to get the community involved in our daily enrichment activities,” El Paso Zoo event coordinator Sarah Borrego told CBS News. “The meerkats love to get cockroaches as a snack and what better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than by feeding them a cockroach named after your ex!”
How to Participate:
- Submit names through the El Paso Zoo’s website at www.ElPasoZoo.org
- Names will be displayed anonymously, with only first names shown.
- The featured feeding of the Madagascar hissing cockroaches will take place at the Meerkats exhibit at 2:15 p.m. on Valentine’s Day.
The zoo calls it “the perfect Valentine’s Day gift” and we have to agree with them! Who needs chocolates and flowers when you can have the satisfaction of naming a roach after your ex, a boss, a mother in law, or anyone else and having it eaten by a sweet little meerkat as a treat?
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Source: Facebook/El Paso Zoo and Tenor
Jill Slater
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