Dinner is served. And there is just one merchandise on the menu – Christmas timber.
Elephants and different animals at a zoo and animal park in Berlin have been handled to a belated Christmas feast of unsold Christmas timber on Wednesday (December 29), clearly having fun with the publicity-grabbing recycling occasion.
The yearly custom throughout German zoos commonly attracts extra guests, who weren’t in abundance over the past two years as a result of pandemic.
The director of the Berlin zoo and animal park, Andreas Knieriem, mentioned that the fir timber have been like “sweets” for animals.
They usually tickle the tongues, as Knieriem’s colleague, press spokesperson Christiane Reiss, advised Reuters TV.
“These needles, the style of the resin, that’s one thing new, one thing thrilling, one thing thrilling. And that’s why it’s very fashionable not solely as an exercise but in addition as a scrumptious feast,” mentioned Reiss.
Though the annual Christmas tree feed is considerably of a practice, Reiss warns in opposition to non-public donations of used timber after the vacations. The zoo and the animal park don’t settle for tree donations, she mentioned.
And it’s not simply the elephants who bought a scrumptious post-Christmas deal with — bison, reindeers and Barbary sheep additionally bought to tuck in, visibly delighted with their present of unsold, recent Christmas timber.