Japanese Zoo has a Cockroach Exhibition

 

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Madagascan Hissing Cockroach at Bristol Zoo, Bristol, England.

Photographer :Adrian Pingstone, Public Domain

 

Shunanshi Tokuyama Zoo in Yamaguchi, Japan is putting on a Cockroach exhibition

Some highlights of the exhibition include a five-way race among cockroaches and letting visitors to touch the Madagascan Hissing Cockroach.

 

Staff at the zoo say the cockroach gets a bad press, but actually performs a vital job in the food chain by eating rotting carcasses and dead plants on forest floors.

 

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http://www.euronews.com/travel…n-cockroach-pr-role/

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