Make a $15 donation to the Bronx Zoo's Name a Roach fundraiser and the zoo will name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after an ex. Donors receive a digital certificate to honor their not-so-loved one.

For a $15 donation a Madagascar hissing cockroach can be named. The names will appear on a naming board displayed outside the Hamill Family Play Zoo. Names must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Feb. 5.

The profits will go to the Wildlife Conservation Society and Bronx Zoo for the care and protection of its animals. The Madagascar hissing cockroach is a large, wingless cockroach native to Madagascar.

A male Madagascar Hissing Cockroach, to be even more exact. Males, Lemann explained, have two distinct protuberances on their shoulders. “They’re like rams,” Lemann said.

You can name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after your Valentine - or your ex-Valentine. “You don’t always have the right words, but you can still give them goosebumps,” the zoo says.

Zoo Knoxville is giving people a chance to name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after their former partners for $10. The fundraiser is called "Hiss and Tell," and people will be able to submit ...

Click here to watch For a $15 donation, you can name one of the Madagascar hissing cockroaches that lives in the Hamill Family Play Zoo after that un-special someone in your life.

Maureen Corcoran of Kalamazoo reacts to a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach that was placed on her shoulder by Jack Hanna during his show in Kalamazoo on Sunday. (Photo by John A. Lacko | Special to ...

Surely, they'll get the last laugh." Maybe naming a Hissing Cockroach for an ex can be seen as a kind of testimonial. The relationship may not last. But we learn, endure, and love all over again.

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