What Should Be the Official Animal of Los Angeles?
Anyone Representing This Place Should Be Resourceful, Adaptable, Clever, and Maybe a Little Misunderstood
The bald eagle symbolizes the United States. The grizzly bear (though no longer found here) emblemizes California. But in spite of Los Angeles’s vast wilderness areas—from mountains, canyons, and lakes to the Pacific coastline—we lack an official animal icon. Can a single creature stand in for our area’s history, outlook, culture, and spirit? Would that living thing be a mammal, a bird, a water-dweller—or perhaps an insect? In advance of “Does L.A. Appreciate Its Wild Animals?”, a Zócalo/Grand Park event, we asked some locals the following question: What should be …
