Roaches named for exes fed to zoo animals

A US zoo got a huge response to its Valentine's Day promotion with people naming cockroaches after their exes; the bugs would be fed to various zoo animals.

Not in the Valentine's Day spirit? A Texas zoo has a cockroach that can help.

The El Paso Zoo ran a promotion called Quit Bugging Me that allows people to name cockroaches after ex-spouses, former friends or anyone else on the nope list.

On Thursday, the cockroaches are to be fed to various zoo animals.

The zoo's Facebook page features dozens of pink-heart graphics showing black cockroaches and various first names or initials of people's exes.

Zoo officials say the response has been so overwhelming that they've had to cut off the submission period.

The zoo's meerkats exhibit will be decorated with the submitted names on Thursday. And later in the day, cockroaches will be fed to meerkats, tamarins, marmosets and other zoo animals.


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