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Ananova
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World's
First Salad Bar For Giraffes Opens
Netherlands -- The
world's first salad bar for giraffes has been set up at a zoo in the
Netherlands.
Amersfoort Zoo is
hanging baskets filled with vegetables and hay in the tops of trees
for the animals.
They want to encourage
their giraffes to eat like they would in a natural habitat, by using
their necks and straining for food up trees.
Zoo keepers were
worried the animals were getting lazy and bored with just having their
food served up by staff everyday.
Mark Hoedemaeker,
zoo manager, says a salad bar will help encourage the giraffes to work
for their food and keep them occupied.
"Having a saladbar,
the giraffes have to search for their meal since the baskets are hung
50 meters from each other," he said.
"They are filled
with food a few times a day."
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