Elephant Nursing a Baby
Today’s squiggle by Norma Brown
The network that brought you Swamp People, Pawn Stars and Ax Men is about to take reality TV to the next don’t-forget-to-breathe, won’t-believe-your-eyes level. Here are the freakish, the brutal, and even the heartwarming stories of what goes on behind the fences — all on Strange But Zoo, premiering tonight on the History Channel. In our first bizarre episode, meet Mindy, the 700-lb. elephant raising a human child as her own after snatching the infant from an abandoned stroller at her zoo in 1995. This mother-daughter relationship, though unconventional and an affront to nature itself, will be disturbingly familiar to any mother who has desperately tried to keep her teenage daughter from running away to join the circus. And don’t miss tomorrow’s all-new episode about Pascal, the African lion who has a strange penchant for Skechers footwear and will stop at nothing to satisfy his craving. * * * Tomorrow’s squiggle by Xavier Jones A LION
