Zoos secretly buy rejected 1-day-old male chicks from egg farms: it’s the cheapest live meat for carnivores. I wonder if that’s how the chick got near the tortoise.
It’s not really a secret, it was reported on public radio in my country recently, zoos admit to it when asked. But they don’t actively spread this information: during beasts’ of prey public feeding hours, they are given something less gory but more expensive, like a skinned pig you might see at a butcher’s.
Zoos secretly buy rejected 1-day-old male chicks from egg farms: it’s the cheapest live meat for carnivores. I wonder if that’s how the chick got near the tortoise.
How’d you get in on the secret?
It’s not really a secret, it was reported on public radio in my country recently, zoos admit to it when asked. But they don’t actively spread this information: during beasts’ of prey public feeding hours, they are given something less gory but more expensive, like a skinned pig you might see at a butcher’s.