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Brazilian bugs: Metro Zoo officials are keeping male and female giant Brazilian cockroaches seperated so they don't multiply and possibly scare zoo visitors
Brazilian bugs: Metro Zoo officials are keeping male and female giant Brazilian cockroaches seperated so they don't multiply and possibly scare zoo visitors

Brazilian bugs: Metro Zoo officials are keeping male and female giant Brazilian cockroaches seperated so they don't multiply and possibly scare zoo visitors

Date5/20/1982
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Original Toronto Star caption: Brazilian bugs: Metro Zoo officials are keeping male and female giant Brazilian cockroaches seperated so they don't multiply and possibly scare zoo visitors.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0008978F
      A bit scary: Two Giant Brazilian cockroaches nestle on the hand of a keeper at the Metro Zoo
      A bit scary: Two Giant Brazilian cockroaches nestle on the hand of a keeper at the Metro Zoo
      Dunlop, Al
      11/29/1986
      A real Jungle beat? No, the animals don't have to play for their supper at Metro Zoo, nor go to this extent to amuse visitors. Two-year-old Billy Sand(...)
      A real Jungle beat? No, the animals don't have to play for their supper at Metro Zoo, nor go to this extent to amuse visitors. Two-year-old Billy Sand(...)
      Bull, Ron
      2/19/1978
      Bugs About Bugs, Masatoki Hirooka is a visitor to Toronto from Japan known for his hobby of fashioning insects out of paper with his scissors
      Bugs About Bugs, Masatoki Hirooka is a visitor to Toronto from Japan known for his hobby of fashioning insects out of paper with his scissors
      Dutton, Don
      1/30/1968
      Build a better roach trap. . . Jean McMath shows off the Japanese roach motel, a trap-door contraption that cockroaches find it difficult to get out o(...)
      Build a better roach trap. . . Jean McMath shows off the Japanese roach motel, a trap-door contraption that cockroaches find it difficult to get out o(...)
      Dunlop, Al
      10/10/1981
      Parkdale idea: Debbie Osachuk, left, and Emily Lawson seal Osachuk's bathroom against cockroaches
      Parkdale idea: Debbie Osachuk, left, and Emily Lawson seal Osachuk's bathroom against cockroaches
      Faught, Ken
      2/24/1988
      Cockroaches Crawl around the flat Rene Legault, his wife and their four children occupy in a dilapidated house in Montreal's inner city, but it costs (...)
      Cockroaches Crawl around the flat Rene Legault, his wife and their four children occupy in a dilapidated house in Montreal's inner city, but it costs (...)
      Bezant, Graham
      10/22/1970
      Mother and . . . Caroline, 11-year-old gorilla at Metro Zoo with her first baby which was born May 18 but whose sex zoo officials can't tell to this d(...)
      Mother and . . . Caroline, 11-year-old gorilla at Metro Zoo with her first baby which was born May 18 but whose sex zoo officials can't tell to this d(...)
      Metropolitan Toronto Zoo
      6/10/1983
      Bring in Dr. Seuss! Metro Zoo officials are corralling every idea they can come up with to boost zoo attendance.
      Bring in Dr. Seuss! Metro Zoo officials are corralling every idea they can come up with to boost zoo attendance.
      Bull, Ron
      2/14/1978
      Night for dancing . . . Brazilian style, Mrs. Valderes Lintz, member of the Brazilian Opera Company, Brazil consul Lars Bengston and Mrs. Bengston Join in the fun at garden party held by the Women's Opera Committee. Affair was held at the consulate, 301 Spadina Rd.
      Night for dancing . . . Brazilian style, Mrs. Valderes Lintz, member of the Brazilian Opera Company, Brazil consul Lars Bengston and Mrs. Bengston Join in the fun at garden party held by the Women's Opera Committee. Affair was held at the consulate, 301 Spadina Rd.
      Ross, Fred
      6/5/1969
      Visitors to Metro zoo, above, were disappointed by new early closing time, reader says in letter below
      Visitors to Metro zoo, above, were disappointed by new early closing time, reader says in letter below
      Loek, Dick
      8/15/1974
      One of two Koala visitors with Metro Zoo's Maria Franke
      One of two Koala visitors with Metro Zoo's Maria Franke
      Metropolitan Toronto Zoo
      5/16/1996
      This prehistoric sea reptile, an 11-metre (37-foot) elasmosaurus, arrives by truck at the Metro zoo yesterday to spend the summer impressing visitors (...)
      This prehistoric sea reptile, an 11-metre (37-foot) elasmosaurus, arrives by truck at the Metro zoo yesterday to spend the summer impressing visitors (...)
      Metropolitan Toronto Zoo
      5/18/1990