Christopher Mace
BBC News, West of England
Trees will be given to the zoo’s spectacled bears, rhinos and African bull elephants
A zoo is asking people to drop off their old Christmas trees so they can be used as “enrichment” for the animals.
Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm in north Somerset has accepted about 15,000 trees over the past five years.
Some of the trees will be turned into chippings that can be used by the spectacled bears, which enjoy the pine scent, and the rhinos, which enjoy foraging through them.
Others will be given to the zoo’s African bull elephants, who will eat the branches and forage through the
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