The Night the Zoo Burned
Save this story for later. Shortly after midnight on the first day of 2020, five paper lanterns floated over the Krefeld Zoo, in western Germany. The lanterns drifted from a nearby neighborhood, where three women had lit their wicks and watched them lift into the stars. “They even wrote their names and wishes for the new year on the lanterns,” Wolfgang Dressen, the director of the zoo, said. In the morning, the police recovered four lanterns from the trees around the ape house. They believed that the fifth landed on the roof. Dressen and his wife were ringing in the New Year with old frie...
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