Showing posts with label Linton Zoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linton Zoo. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 January 2015

Linton Zoo lions play with old Christmas trees

Lions at a Cambridgeshire zoo are being given old trees to play with as a post-Christmas treat.
Real Christmas trees are "like catnip" to lions, Linton Zoological Gardens' director Kim Simmons said.

The trees are used as toys by the big cats while others are used in the zoo's bio-burner to provide additional heating for the buildings.
Zuri the lion with Christmas treePeople have been dropping off individual trees and a number of nurseries have donated unsold ones.

Monday, 6 January 2014

Linton Zoo lions 'recycle' discarded Christmas trees

A pair of African lions have gone wild for Christmas trees after a Cambridgeshire zoo appealed for people to donate them for recycling.

The trees are being reused by Linton Zoological Gardens as big cat toys, bio-fuel and, if they still have roots, to enrich the zoo's enclosures.

Manager Dawny Greenwood said the scented trees are "almost like catnip" for the resident big cats.


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