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Comedian posts some brilliant animal facts across Los Angeles Zoo

Gibbons love soup apparently.
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Tim Chester
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Did you know there's a bird that can see ghosts? That gibbons love soup? Or that ducklings play a mean tune on the trombone?

The Los Angeles Zoo was a font of interesting factoids this week after prankster Jeff Wysaski, the man behind the Obvious Plant Tumblr and Facebook pages, left some completely true and not at all made up nuggets on signs across the grounds.

Visitors got the chance, briefly, to learn some very new things about owls, bears and meerkats.


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Here are some of the best signs he placed in the zoo on Thursday.











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Tim Chester

Tim Chester was Senior Editor, Real Time News in Los Angeles. Before that he was Deputy Editor of Mashable UK in London. Prior to joining Mashable, Tim was a Senior Web Editor at Penguin Random House, helping to relaunch the Rough Guides website and other travel brands. He was also a writer for Buzzfeed, GQ and The Sunday Times, covering everything from culture to tech and current affairs. Before that, he was Deputy Editor at NME.COM, overseeing content and development on the London-based music and entertainment site. Tim loves music and travel and has combined these two passions at festivals from Iceland to Malawi and beyond.

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