Thrown to the lions: a purrrfect use for old Christmas trees
A Cambridgeshire zoo has a new mane attraction … its big cats just love playing with old Christmas trees.
What to do with the old Christmas tree? Bin it? Burn it? Try, and fail, to replant it? If you happen to live in Cambridgeshire you now have another option: you can throw it to the lions. Local families and nurseries have donated their unwanted trees to Linton Zoological Gardens, where they are being used as fuel in the bio-burners, replanted in the snowy owl enclosure, and given to the lions as toys.
According to the zoo’s director Kim Simmons, real Christmas trees are “like catnip” to big cats. They also, rather pleasingly, make the lions look toddlers who are refusing to accept Christmas is over. As you can see...
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They are indeed.
) and I couldn't remember the layout :thumbs: I might pop over tomorrow regardless of the weather.
I was there last week but didn't see the cubs - both parents were outside together without cubs & the inside area window was boarded up as usual.
Snap but I am not popping over to see the Lion cubs,in my case its trying to get some decent shots of the White-collared Lemurs still!Ah, thanks for that. I've only been there once (just realised it was 2 years ago and I deleted most of my photos from the visit
With 4 enclosures of them, hopefully you'll manage at least one decent shot.
Does it say how many they have or where they came from?
