15th October 2011
We were planting some new vegetation in Chandru's enclosure today and as animals tend to thoroughly investigate something new in their enclosure, I always wonder whether the plants will survive their first meeting with the cats. To be fair the cats have quite a good track record at the moment, as when Chiquita the jaguar was moved into her new enclosure, she had quite a collection of pretty looking but very fragile plants that I was wagering might not see the next day. However all those plants are still standing and her enclosure still looks very attractive.
With the handful of new plants going into Chadru's today, I wondered if he would be any more destructive. Todays photos show the precarious situation these plants find themselves in as the same plant that is seen being planted here, is also seen in the background of the set of photos from today of Chandru's feeding session and you can imagine that once these cats get focused on food, all regard for the gardening goes out the window! Luckily for this helpless bamboo, Chandru was far enough away to spare it from his onslaught of tackling his food down from the rope and it lives to survive another day!
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