Photo: ZSL London Zoo
These big cats must be on Santa’s nice list.
Sumatran tigers Asim and Gaysha recently awoke to find their ZSL London Zoo habitat transformed into a holiday wonderland.
“Just like pet cats, both Asim and Gaysha love to seek out and roll around in strong scents, so for Christmas this year we created a scented candy cane forest for them out of giant wooden canes and recycled hessian ‘Santa sacks’ — perfumed with natural seasonal scents such as ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon,” ZSL London Zoo tiger keeper Kate Clark shared in a statement about the interactive decorations.
ZSL London Zoo
Unfortunately, only one of the tigers got to enjoy the whole experience. Gaysha was the first to discover the candy canes and other enrichment items and gleefully tore all the decorations down before Asim had a chance to play with them.
“It took Gaysha no time at all to reach up and tear down all our hard work — she’s this year’s Christmas Grinch, for sure! Luckily Asim still had a great time sniffing out each Santa sack before rubbing himself all over with his favorite festive spices,” Clark said of the incident.
Asim and Gaysha weren’t the only London Zoo residents treated to an early holiday surprise. The ZSL London Zoo also gifted theirmeerkats an advent calendar full of crickets, which the animals quickly gobbled up in minutes instead of enjoying the entire month of December.
source: people.com
