About the Event
The GLOBAL phenomenon is back! The El Paso Zoo & Botanical Gardens is ready to take those names for its annual Quit Bugging Me promotion!
Submit a name of anyone who has bugging you! An ex, boss, mother-in-law, we’ll take them all!
This year we are encouraging folks to donate to the El Paso Del Norte American Association of Zookeepers Chapter. A donation is not needed to submit a name but we do encourage if! The funds raised from this promotion will be used for to help fund their mission of providing support to wildlife organizations, acquiring enrichment for Zoo animals, and providing professional development opportunities to Zoo staff.
Zoo animals are regularly given enrichment to keep them stimulated both mentally and physically. Madagascar hissing cockroaches are ethically frozen and given to insectivores as determined by our zoo veterinarian staff. Insects are a normal part of these animals’ diets, in captivity or the wild. While in our care, we try to replicate this as much as possible.
Submit A Name
Only names submitted via the online form will be used for this promotion. All names submitted will be displayed anonymously as only first names will appear.
Please keep in mind that the animals’ can only eat so many cockroaches. Any names that we read out during our stream will be at random. All names we receive will be used to decorate the animals’ exhibits.