A zoo is reusing Christmas trees as enrichment for their elephants and rhinos.
By Clara Bullock & John MaguireElephants, rhinos, meerkats and lions are enjoying "their own late Christmas" with recycled trees at a zoo."The whole point of this is to give our Christmas trees a second life," said Larry Bush, managing director of the zoo.
Mr Bush said: "Our elephants Janu and Shaka have have been smelling them and enjoying the aroma of the pine, they have been crunching them, eating them and tossing them around."The woodchip has many uses around the zoo, in both animal enclosures and the gardensBut in 2020, a zoo in the United States with the same name put out a plea for people's Christmas trees - and Somerset residents mistakenly thought it was their zoo.
"When we put the trees up in our homes, that first smell of the tree feels like Christmas has started.
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