Elephants Feast On Christmas Trees
The Berlin Zoo treated its elephants and some of its other animals to the donated pine trees for lunch Before gobbling the greenery, elephants young and old played with the trees, whose strong smell attracts them.
An elephant eats a Christmas
tree at the Berlin Zoo at the launch of the annual feeding of Christmas
trees in Berlin, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. Keeper Dr. Ragnar Kuehne told
reporters that today was the first day the elephants and some other zoo
animals were fed with Christmas trees after the holiday period. The
trees have not been used and were not sold, they were donated by the
vendors in the area.
An Elephant munchs on Christmas
trees in her enclosure at Berlin's Zoologischer Garten zoo on January 4,
2013 in Berlin, Germany. Traditionally, the animals get in the first
week of the year leftover Christmas trees.
