Issue 143

Winter & Spring 2013

Nonfiction Dinty W. Moore Nonfiction Dinty W. Moore

Of Striped Food and Polar Bears

I met my first zebra the summer I worked at the Erie Zoo as a fill-in zookeeper. My duties included chopping apples and carrots for the elephant breakfast one week, thawing foul-smelling slabs of mystery meat for the lions a week later, and on the third week, throwing frozen mackerel across a wide moat to a pair of jaded polar bears.

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