Jabari Parker has a favorite friend at the local zoo
Milwaukee Bucks forward Jabari Parker is a big time prospect, but he's also a big time animal lover. Emphasis on big, apparently.
While other NBA athletes may have dogs or cats, Parker went the slightly more exotic route and developed a friendship with the oldest animal at the Milwaukee County Zoo: a giant Amazon river turtle that Parker can quickly spout off facts about.
Here's more from Parker, via Jimmy Carlton at OnMilwaukee.com:
"But on this subject, he opens up, reciting assorted facts about Onassis, the oldest animal at the Milwaukee Zoo, where she's been for more than 45 years. "It weighs, like, 120 pounds," he says. "I help feed it bananas. And the funny thing is it's estimated to be over 100 years old – that's what they told me." "
