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Keepers served the sprouts, a popular side dish
on festive tables in Britain, to the zoo's western lowland
gorillas.
Bactrian camels Genghis and Noemi got their breakfast of hay in
a large red stocking while Asiatic lionesses Indi, Heidi and
Rubi woke up to their own version of a Christmas pudding - a
cinnamon and nutmeg-scented ball.
"Big cats ... have got a great sense of smell...and here we use
some nice festive spices ... to encourage that kind of ability
for them to forage around and use that scent and follow some
scent trails around in their paddocks," Daniel Simmonds, head of
primates at London Zoo, said.
"We're only five days away from Christmas and it wouldn't be
right to not celebrate ...with the animals."
(Reporting By Ella Wilks-Harper; Writing by Marie-Louise
Gumuchian; editing by John Stonestreet)
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