{"id":496797,"date":"2026-01-05T09:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/berlin-zoo-recycles-christmas-trees-and-serves-them-to-its-animals\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:24:47","slug":"berlin-zoo-recycles-christmas-trees-and-serves-them-to-its-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/berlin-zoo-recycles-christmas-trees-and-serves-them-to-its-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Zoo recycles Christmas trees and serves them to its animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Berlin.- <\/strong>The panda bears, elephants, bison, deer and ibexes of the Berlin zoo had a special breakfast this Monday based on <strong>Christmas trees<\/strong> that were not sold this year and that, before ending up in the trash, ended up as a particular feast for these animals.\n\nServed to the pandas with apple and sweet potato as if it were Christmas decoration, these Asian plantigrades from the Berlin zoo ate and frolicked next to several of the Christmas trees served as food and morning attraction.\n\nIn a completely snow-covered facility of the Berlin Zoo, the dean of Germany&#8217;s zoos and the one who claims a greater variety of animals from the world, <strong>the pandas left the trees in question without sweet potatoes or apples in a matter of minutes<\/strong> while they rubbed against the trees.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"589345\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7b1d4e62fcebd5183a67188e49c1ad1bd4a9aabep.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-589345\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">EFE\/EPA\/HANNIBAL HANSCHKE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"589346\" src=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e92685ef7bc44a52323d4f9724d3529282a5b440w-1024x674.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-589346\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">EFE\/EPA\/HANNIBAL HANSCHKE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\nThe Berlin Zoo has been organizing these breakfasts since eight years ago after Christmas, in which it acquires <strong> dozens of unsold Christmas trees <\/strong> in an action that, according to Philine Hachmeister, confirmed to EFE, has a lot of &#8220;recycling&#8221;.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Before the trees end up in the trash, we make our animals happy with them,&#8221; Hachmeister pointed out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/visitas-en-villa-navidad\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/visitas-en-villa-navidad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International visits to Villa Navidad: \u201cDominicans are warm and cheerful\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThis year, the big news was that the elephant family at the Berlin Zoo received this breakfast of conifers, trees in front of which the pachyderms were, above all, curious, although they preferred as food the usual vegetables they usually eat.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin.- The panda bears, elephants, bison, deer and ibexes of the Berlin zoo had a special breakfast this Monday based on Christmas trees that were not sold this year and that, before ending up in the trash, ended up as a particular feast for these animals. 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