Animals at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago have been eliminating the post-holiday blues by serving to employees recycle discarded Christmas bushes. Brookfield Zoo’s Grounds employees is chipping greater than 800 bushes, which had been embellished by group organisations, households, and firms for his or her Holiday Magic season. The mulch shall be used for landscaping across the 235-acre park. However, as in previous years, a number of dozen bushes are being repurposed and given to the animals for enrichment. Hudson, a 16-year-old polar bear, acquired a tree adorned with a few of his favorites greens and lard. The zoo’s African lions—Brutus and Titus—appeared to benefit from the uncooked meat hidden of their bushes in addition to the bushes themselves, which had been hung from bungee cords. Animal care specialists positioned bones and pig ears and snouts on the bushes given to the African painted canine. And, the zoo’s bison and reindeer used the bushes to rub their horns and antlers on and even toss round. Animal care specialists are at all times pondering of how to bodily and mentally stimulate the animals by offering them with enrichment objects they usually don’t obtain regularly which this January consists of the discarded the seasonal bushes.
Animals At Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo Help Recycle Discarded Christmas Trees
