Four-year-old bearcat Ellie has been tucking into her favourite snack ahead of Dudley Zoo and Castle's open-air cinema nigh
DUDLEY Zoo and Castle’s sweetcorn-loving bearcat has been enjoying a taste of typical cinema snacks ahead of this week’s open-air film screenings.
As an enrichment treat, zoo keepers popped sweetcorn kernels in the microwave before serving the unflavoured treat to four-year-old binturong Ellie.
Senior keeper Joshua Luxton said: “Sweetcorn is Ellie’s favourite food and we often spot her stealing it from her den mate, Connie, the Asian Palm Civet, when she’s not looking.
“Ahead of the zoo’s cinema events we thought we’d try popping some sweetcorn kernels and see what she thought of those, as you can’t beat popcorn and a film and she did taste a couple, although Elliot, our male binturong, wasn’t keen.