Brevard Zoo building retirement homes for animals
The Brevard Zoo is ensuring its older animals will likely be comfy of their golden years by building them ‘retirement homes.’
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Animals coming into their ‘golden years’ on the Brevard Zoo could have a snug place to retire.
The zoo says it’s creating new “retirement homes” particularly for its older animals.
The animal expertise curator says when animals attain 80-percent of their life expectancy, they will be moved to modified constructions. Some of the modifications is perhaps including steps or a artistic area.
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“As we have now animals that begin to attain these ages the place the traditional habitats or regular social teams aren’t as useful for them anymore, we work actually, actually exhausting to search out completely different locations within the zoo the place we are able to match them.”
The zoo says it’s going to construct greater than 10 “retirement homes” for the growing older animals.