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By CHRISTINE FREY
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

'Try to use a soft voice, and try not to run,' Peter Dang instructs a young boy and girl before opening the wooden gate to the Woodland Park Zoo's petting area. 'It'll scare the animals.'

The lanky 17-year-old Lake Washington High School senior patiently repeats the instructions to each group of children who visit the goats, demonstrating how they should touch the animals by patting the back of a nearby model that's covered with hair."