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live—have heated rocks that are turned on and receive more behavioral training and
seasonally. This ensures that the rocks stay enrichment, which provides them with
warm and free of snow and ice, giving the important mental and physical stimulation.
animals a place to safely luxuriate.
Because animals like giraffes are
Brookfield Zoo is also home to some browsers—meaning they eat primarily
animals that are native to areas that have a leaves and stems off plants—they naturally
warm climate year-round. These animals, spend much of their time consuming
including the giraffes and okapi, are food. Care staff place puzzle feeders in
brought entirely indoors during the coldest different locations and at different heights
months. But while they don’t have access throughout their indoor habitat. The
to all of the features of their “main” habitat giraffes have to work their agile tongue
space, it doesn’t mean they’re bored. Many to get to food in these puzzle feeders,
of these animals spend more time with replicating the types of experiences they
animal care specialists during the winter would encounter in the wild.
TROPIC WORLD uses natural
light cycles for its primates.
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