The St. Louis Zoo is getting some national media, courtesy of National Geographic and thanks to some of its tenants.

For the April issue of the nature magazine, the zoo's Brazilian porcupine, Piper, will be featured on some covers for a story about endangered species. (There will be 10 different covers published for the edition, each featuring a different threatened animal.)

Piper lives at the Emerson Children’s Zoo, where she sometimes stars in summer stock, showcasing natural behaviors of exotic and domestic animals.

Then inside the magazine, pages 76-77, the Fennec foxes that live at our zoo also will be featured.

The magazine hits newsstands March 29.

The photos were taken by National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore, who is attempting to document about 12,000 species of animals. He was here in October.

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