【Explanation】June 25 is the traditional Chinese Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi is a traditional festive food for Chinese families during the Dragon Boat Festival. Located in Heilongjiang, China’s high latitudes, the animal nutritionists and animal dietists of the North Forest Zoo are uniquely creative, and have developed and processed a variety of special dumpling fillings for different animals’ diets and tastes.

  [Explanation] Zongye, Malian, Jujube, Candied Date, Apple, Banana, Melon, Carrot, Lamb, Beef, Peanuts... Enriched fillings wrap fresh zongzi leaves, making them "exclusive Zongzi" for animals . Monkeys love to eat rice dumplings, African elephants love fruit dumplings, hippos who just gave birth to cubs, its full moon dumplings are nutritious and delicious, and gray wolves like to eat pure meat dumplings.

  [Same period] Cao Li, breeder of the North Forest Zoo Wolf Dispersion Area

  We feed this wolf every day. The average wolf is 3 pounds of meat, which is beef and mutton, but they are an extra meal today. They have already eaten a dumpling of meat. I have seen it when I fed it. Almost this meat will not fall to the ground, the wolf just dangled away, especially like to eat this dumpling.

  [Commentary] On the day, Liu Xiaomi arrived early to work with colleagues to make dumplings for the "animal family" and spend the Dragon Boat Festival. Liu Xiaomi told reporters that the raw materials used in the dumplings are strictly arranged according to the nutritional needs of the animals, and they are inlaid with the fruits they usually eat. The reporter saw that in addition to the rice dumpling feast, there are also traditional boiled eggs, persimmon small gourds, colorful lines of fruits and vegetables, and gourmet color purses and other festive elements.

  [Same period] Liu Xiaomi, Senior Engineer of Animal Feeding, Northern Forest Zoo

  In fact, our zoo has always been committed to giving animals, animal welfare, that is not only to pay attention to the physical health of animals, but also to pay attention to their mental health, so that they can express their nature more freely, in fact, they are in the wild, such as monkeys Picking fruit on the tree, it also requires labor to get enough, not to say that a pile of holding and eating, we are hiding the food, hiding in this bamboo tube, for example, hiding in our zongzi leaves, and then by peeling This process can get exercise. For monkeys, it is also very interested, and it also likes this link.

  Reporter Wei Lai from Harbin, Heilongjiang

Editor in charge: [Fang Jialiang]