Susan Straight I first drew the attention of my future husband when we were fourteen, on the freshman school bus for an epic field trip from Riverside, Calif. to Los Angeles, where we were taken to the L.A. Zoo as well as the Natural History Museum. – Susan Straight
Seth Shostak Most of the things at the zoo don’t look like us. We’re one design that works. Our chimp pals sort of look like us, so that’s a different take on the same basic design. But fish don’t look like us, and giraffes don’t. They look a little like us, but not too much. And insects certainly don’t look like us, and they work just fine. – Seth Shostak
S Jay Olshansky Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing. – S Jay Olshansky
S E Hinton More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That’s where I got the looks like I was from the zoo. – S E Hinton
Nina Tassler Zoo’ further demonstrates our commitment to high-quality, year-round programming and to high-concept series that play to summer audiences in the U.S. as well as on a global scale. – Nina Tassler
Newt Gingrich More than just a zoo, the Animal Kingdom is an extraordinary experience of animals, rides and performances. The exhibits have the scale and creativity you associate with Disney. The African safari ride is terrific and worth riding several times. – Newt Gingrich
Miriam Shor My sister gave my two-and-a-half year old this book called ‘And Tango Makes Three,’ about the gay penguin couple at the Central Park Zoo. They cared for an orphan egg ’til it hatched and then raised the baby penguin as their own. I cannot get through this book without copious amounts of tears and snot running down my face. – Miriam Shor
Mike Quigley I’ve visited Lincoln Park Zoo more times than I can count because I believe the more the public learns about our animals, plants and environment, the better equipped we are to play a leading role in protecting our planet. – Mike Quigley
