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Thứ Hai, 5 tháng 1, 2015
These Lions Have Been Given Old Christmas Trees To Play With Because They're "Like Catnip"
Don’t just chuck your tree away, make a big cat happy!
Here's Zuri the lion enjoying a Christmas tree at Linton Zoo.
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Its director, Kim Simmons, told the BBC that the trees are "like catnip".
The broadcaster reported: "Catnip, sometimes known at catmint, is a plant of the mint family and can cause many cats euphoria."
The zoo has put out an appeal for more trees.
Before you throw your Christmas trees on the rubbish pile please spare us a thought. Greenery is very important to our animals, so live rooted and growing trees can be given a second chance at life by being planted in one of our animal enclosures or our new woodland area.
Trees without roots are used to decorate our aviaries and as enrichment for many of our animals including the lions, tigers and snow leopards.
18 Human Problems Delightfully Illustrated By Animals
Or why you need to follow Animal Problems on Tumblr immediately.
These splendid illustrations are the work of Geoffrey Hewer-Candee.
He's recently collected them in a book, which you can get here.
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He tells BuzzFeed News: that he "started the series as a challenge to myself to come up with a new one daily."
He's had to scale back so he can concentrate on other work. He says: "My day job is a graphic designer, and I'm also working on a picture book that I desperately want to finish so that I can start looking for an agent/publisher."
He says he "loves animals, and finds them more interesting to draw than people."
He says: "Given the choice, I'd never draw people if I could draw an animal instead."
"By using animals it allows me to address human issues that are part of daily life, but in a recontextualized way."
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