(3 Oct 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Francisco - 28 September 2022
1. Close up Koala
HEADLINE: Zoos forage for food to help feed their animals
2. Various foraging for eucalyptus leaves in city parks
CAPTION: San Francisco Zoo staff regularly searches city parks for eucalyptus plants.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jorge Trujillo, Horticulturist, San Francisco Zoo:
"Sometimes we struggle very much, especially in the winter. It's kind of difficult to find that eucalyptus. In the summer, it's a little easier to find it."
4. Trujillo loading up eucalyptus branches into truck
5. Trujillo unloading eucalyptus branches at zoo
6. Fresh eucalyptus plant offered to koala
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ross Anthold, Animal Care Specialist, San Francisco Zoo:
"So eucalyptus is the only thing that they eat. It is their sole diet. But what a lot of people don't know, it's also where they get their water from. So most of the eucalyptus have between 40 to 70% water in the leaves. So a truly healthy koala will not need to drink from a water source. So we are very lucky here at San Francisco. Eucalyptus is a fast-growing tree, so around westward expansion in the gold rush, it was brought in thinking it would be great to help with the housing boom. However, it's a really horrible tree to build stuff out of. So it was just left to grow feral here in San Francisco and it is all over. So it makes it much more financially possible for us to raise koalas here at this zoo. That's one of the limiting factors with having koalas is just how much they eat because since they only eat that new growth, there's you offered them a lot and they eat very little of it. So it's a huge financial output if you live in a place that eucalyptus does not grow abundantly."
8. Various koalas in zoo exhibit
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oakland, California - 27 September 2022
9. Various tree-trimming company cutting acacia limbs off backyard tree and loading into truck
CAPTION: Across the San Francisco Bay in Oakland, a tree-trimming company donates fresh branches to the Oakland Zoo to help feed its giraffes.
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Trex Donovan, Owner, Buena Vista Tree Service:
"Today we're trimming a black acacia and that's in the giraffe's native diet. We also have African sumac that grow here."
11. Various unloading acacia at Oakland Zoo
12. Woman and child watch giraffes
13. Giraffe eats leaves from branch tied to tree
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Leslie Rao, Senior Keeper, Oakland Zoo:
"Giraffes out in the wild can eat about 75 pounds of food a day. And while we can't sustainably grow that here ourselves, we look to the community for help. We are very lucky here in the Bay Area that we have a plethora of trees growing in your own backyards at public parks. And surprisingly to most, there's a huge portion of what grows out there that we can feed these animals. Being a nonprofit, we're not able to expend a lot of finances that other facilities might be able to. We can buy browse online to feed the animals, but for a species that eats hundreds of pounds of food a day, it's just not something that we're able to manage. So through the community, support is what really helps us here be able to take care of these animals every day."
15. Various feeding acacia to giraffes
STORYLINE
For years, chefs at high-end restaurants have gone into the woods to gather greens and forage mushrooms to give diners a truly wild culinary experience.
Now zoos are putting a twist on this food trend by foraging to feed their animals.
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