Where is everybody?
With most zoos closed around the nation, many animals miss the Human Visitors, finds Grumpy Editor.
As The Wall Street Journal puts it: “The animals appear to have noticed that they have the place to themselves. Some of them seem to miss people, staff say, while others don’t exactly seem to mind that no one is tapping on the glass.”
A Los Angeles zoo worker, for example, observes a black bear and red river hogs “seeming to peer around in the sudden quiet.” Many animals, with the absence of visitors, are less active and sleep more.
An Associated Press story notes lack of revenue from visitors hits animal food costs --- $55,000 a month at the Oakland Zoo, for example, putting the 100-year-old zoo in a dire financial situation.
That zoo and others around the country were ordered to close in March, start of the busiest season for most animal parks.
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