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. . . my zoo love gave to me:

Eleven hissing cockroaches,

These are Madagascan hissing cockroaches. There really are eleven; there's a few partial ones in the upper right corner. This is from the new bug house at the zoo. I love bugs.

Funny thing about these bugs. When I lived in the dorms, I had one for a pet in one of those plastic cages with slitted lids. I looked in the cage one day, and *poof* I had 30 baby Madagascan hissing cockroaches. Next day I had about half that many--seems the little buggers escaped. I found a few, but I never did find them all. My dorm-mates didn't exactly appreciate knowing that. Eventually the ones I had left all died because I fed them some flower that turned out to be poisonous to them.

pink flamingos,

If you count the close-up ones, there's ten. Yeah. The larger the number,the harder it is to find critters in that number, but there's always a ton of flamingos right at the zoo entrance.

Nine sable antelope,

These are still some of my favorite animals, but they're all the way up at the Wild Animal Park now, and much, much harder to get a good pic of. Not that I get to see any hoofed critters at the zoo for about another year, because they're redoing the whole horn and hoof mesa section.

Eight moray eels,

These are at Sea World. Very creepy. They're in an underground aquarium with equally creepy music playing.

Seven cormorants,

(There are two hiding in the nest on the right that are a bit hard to see. This would also be considered a gulp of cormorants. More fun names of animal groups.)

Six addaxes,