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‘Party for the Planet’ Draws Hundreds to Santa Fe Zoo

‘Party for the Planet’ Draws Hundreds to Santa Fe Zoo

People usually go to the Santa Fe Teaching Zoo to watch exotic animals like the white-handed gibbon. But at Party for the Planet on Saturday, it was the gibbons that were the watching the people.

The primates stared with fascination, and maybe a little bit of envy, as the children who attended the first day of the two-day Party for the Planet played on the zoo’s new playground, said Tarah Jacobs, a conservation education specialist and organizer of the event.

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-Gainesville Sun article by Samantha Franco, Correspondent