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Is your past significant other more of a snake or a cockroach? Well, you can name either after your ex this Valentine's Day! AND you'll be helping out animals.

It only costs $2!

The John Ball Zoo wants to show their thanks and gratitude to our teachers!

Are you and your partner looking to spice things up this Valentine's Day or maybe you're single with no plans? Why not watch zoo animals do each other? It's a real event that The Detroit Zoo is hosting on Valentine's Day called Love Gone Wild...

Funicular, now there is a word I have never heard before.  At first I thought it may have been a made up word.  But no, it's for real.  Funicular: is a motorized tram on a track and it just came to the John Ball Zoo.

This is the closest many of us will ever get to seeing animals in a somewhat natural habitat.  At least they are protected and won't be hunted down like so many animals in the wild. Rhino's in South Africa were the animals most recently in the news. So if you want to see animals that are protected, loved, and nurtured we have two zoos in our area that are now officially open.  The John Ball Zoo in

What mother wouldn't save her child in time of danger?  No one, or thing, I can think of. In human terms it's easy to understand.  But, in animal terms?  They love their young just as much as we do.

This story reminded me of the one that Catherine Behrendt brought up on WZZM 13's Take Five and Company a couple weeks ago.  Small pockets of legislature around the country are trying to rule in or rule out the use of elephant hooks.  Another argument for why they have to STOP being used on these intelligent, caring, loving animals...

Have you seen the video of the little girl looking at a lion in a zoo when he suddenly jumps and begins pawing the safety glass where the girl is standing?  You jump, right?  She, seemingly, just take it in stride.

And Grand Rapids has a new addition to the zoo this year.  It's Kilo.  He's a bobcat that was rescued from a drug smuggling operation out of Oklahoma City.  He is the sole survivor in his litter and wasn't in the best of shape when he was rescued...

I don't normally think of an Opposum as "cute".  I've seen them on the side of the road and they don't look particularly friendly.  And they're not.  They have some pretty sharp, razor teeth.  But this fuzzy, little, cross-eyed, Opposum in Germany is not only making people smile, but she has become a star in her own right...