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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Emmanuel Camarillo

Brookfield Zoo offers opportunity to name hissing cockroach after an ex for Valentine’s Day

A Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Julie Larsen Maher, AP)

Roses are red. Violets are blue.

You can name a roach after an ex,

at Brookfield Zoo.

This year, the zoo is once again offering spurned lovers the chance to name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after a not-so-special someone in honor of the traditionally romantic holiday.

For a $15 donation to support the zoo you’ll get a certificate of naming as a reminder that the roach now bears the name. It will also be displayed on the cockroach naming board posted outside the Hamill Family Play Zoo.

Names and donations can be submitted online.

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