Taking a game break

12:31 PM, April 16, 2008

A chimpanzee rests in the shade at the Ramat Gan Safari Park outside Tel Aviv, Israel, this week.

Photo: Ariel Schalit / Associated Press

Posted by Tony Barboza on April 16, 2008 in Chimpanzees , Photo treats , Zoos | Permalink

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Tony Barboza, a Colorado native who moved to Southern California as a college student, is a reporter for the Times' Orange County Edition, where he covers the beaches and the city of Irvine. A lifelong animal lover, he lives with his 2-year-old cats Mario and Vincent.

Carla Hall, a general assignment reporter, has covered animals and their people across the state of California (and occasionally beyond.) She chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby African elephant and followed the Los Angeles Zoo's LA-born gorilla, Caesar, on his trek to a new home at Zoo Atlanta several years ago. Preferring to get up close and personal with her subjects, she once fed corn cobs to the LA Zoo's now-deceased elephant, Gita (no connection between her demise and the feeding) and spent hours interviewing pit bulls at the Laurel Canyon Dog Park. Currently animal-less, she still insists on plying people with anecdotes about her cat, Arnold, who died ten years ago.

Francisco Vara-Orta has been a staff writer at the Times since 2006, writing about birth control for squirrels in Santa Monica and pigeons in Hollywood, the hidden culture of TV pet adoptions, and puppy theft. . Although he grew up with pet dogs, he realized the sad realities of neglected animals after spending a summer in high school volunteering at a local shelter. An L.A. transplant, Francisco graduated from St. Mary's University in his hometown of San Antonio, Texas, where his dog Diego now keeps his mother company.

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