With 1,500 animal-themed items available on Shopzoo.com, online holiday shoppers are bound to find the most swinging gift around while aiding the San Diego Zoo in its mission of conservation and education.

Shopzoo.com offers one of the largest selections of plush animals available anywhere, including critters most people have never seen like an okapi, but the fun doesn�t stop with bizarre animals like the naked mole rat. Large plush, like a 2-foot tall giraffe and a tiger rocker will surely delight children this holiday season. Kids can even decorate their rooms through Shopzoo.com. Add a crocodile beanbag chair or hang an exclusive �BORN TO BE WILD� or �THIS PLACE IS A ZOO� sign. Let your child�s imagination run with the wild animals this holiday season.

For the adult animal lovers, Shopzoo.com offers apparel and home d�cor items like a handcrafted ceramic panda, a whistling giraffe teakettle and custom animal blankets.

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the San Diego Zoo�s online store will even offer gift certificates for redemption on Shopzoo.com. Stay tuned for more details.

The not-for-profit Zoological Society of San Diego, dedicated to the conservation of endangered species and their habitats, engages in conservation and research work around the globe. The Zoological Society manages the 100-acre San Diego Zoo, the 1,800-acre San Diego Zoo�s Wild Animal Park (more than half of which has been set aside as protected native species habitat) and the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species (CRES), and is working to establish field stations in five key ecological areas world-wide.

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Media Contact: Paul Garcia +1 619-685-3291 pgarcia@sandiegozoo.org