When you next visit us - you might see our carnivores enjoying a ‘super-sized’ meal!
To ensure the very best possible care for these big cats we provide them with large pieces of meat on the bone (portions or whole carcasses) to eat. This gives these animals the ability to express their highly adapted natural feeding behaviours – as they would in the wild.
As our carnivore team leader Lauren explains, “it really allows our big cats to use a lot of the musculoskeletal system that they have, especially in their heads and cheeks, for chewing and tearing meat off of bones. They’re also getting to use their carnassial teeth…which helps them to shear meat off of bone. It’s fantastic nutrition, sees them expending lots of energy physically and mentally, and for social animals like lions, otters and Tasmanian devils, greatly aids social dynamics.”
