All of the news related to Lowry Park Zoo President Lex Salisbury in the past 24 hours has sparked lots of chatter with tampabay.com readers. A number of breaking news stories invovled Salisbury yesterday:

• He stepped down as president of the zoo.

• Salisbury's wife was cited for animal cruelty after leaving 2 dogs in the car

• The missing monkeys that started the zoo investigation were found

• Columnist Daniel Ruth calls it 'Lex's menagerie of malfeasance

What do readers have to say? Here's a sampling:

"Lex Salisbury's resignation is the beginning of restoring trust within our community's zoo. The second step would be to hold all those zoo executives who assisted Mr. Salisbury in his animal and human "dealings" accountable for their actions," Jeff Kremer of Tampa's Zoo Advocates wrote on It's Your Times.

"The man should be put in a cage, the big cage on Orient Road. We would not be so lucky to only lose our jobs if found stealing as he has done," Debbie says.

Minnie wrote about the animal cruelty charge: "Just one more dreary, disgusting, revolting, ironic, descriptive detail in the saga of a couple who thinks they're above the law."

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