“Long before I aspired to enter the field of politics, I wanted to be a zookeeper,” Gingrich writes in an introduction to the new book “America’s Best Zoos: A Travel Guide for Fans and Families,” reports dcgadfly.blogspot.com. “As I was growing up in Harrisburg, Pa., my relatives would take me to the big zoos… I fell in love with seeing animals in all their glory and diversity. I found animals fascinating.”

And then he picked government instead, which has a zoo/animal theme, no?

(Shout outs to Page Six and DCGadfly.