Zoo of the Week

This week's zoo of the week is the Como Zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota

I attended this zoo as a youth, when zookeeping was just another possibility of career options along with locomotive engineer and researcher specializing in ochronosis.

In earlier times, there was a fish booth where for two dollars you could by a paper plate with five fish on it to feed to the sea lions.

The daily highlight is the Sparky the Seal show, although Sparky is soon to retire to be replaced by Chino a newly trained seal recently rescued from injury in the Pacific.

The current highlight of the zoo is a polar bear, although the zoo currently only has old water cooler jugs as play toys for the bear. If you'd like to donate other office supplies to the bear cage, the zoo can be contacted at
http://www.comozooconservatory.org/supp/index.shtml