The dismal approval numbers facing Congress combined with the ups and downs of the 2012 Presidential race lead many Americans to compare politics to a zoo. Now one New England zoo is out to prove that politics really is for the birds, and gorillas and lions and anteaters too.

Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo is holding its third “PreZOOdential Election” next week to elect an animal as the new “president” of the zoo.  The election will, appropriately, begin on Monday, Feb. 20, President’s Day.

Franklin Park began the tradition in 2006 and found it so popular it did it again in 2008 and now in 2012, following the election calendar.

“We’re expecting high voter turnout,” Brooke Wardrop, the zoo’s director of communications, told ABCNews.com.

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