Supermarket chain Carrefour Taiwan has launched a new initiative to donate fruits and vegetables that have passed their sell-by date, but are still safe to eat to Shou Shan Zoo in Kaohsiung for use as animal feed.
Under the program, which started on Tuesday last week, the zoo receives donations of leftover produce from Carrefour’s Dingshan store in Kaohsiung every one to two weeks, zoo director Chuang Hsuan-chih (莊絢智) said on Sunday.
The aim is to give the animals a more well-balanced diet by offering them new types of food, including burdock root, alfalfa sprouts, red oak lettuce, baby corn and baby
Kaohsiung, June 12 (CNA) Supermarket chain Carrefour Taiwan has launched a new initiative to donate fruits and vegetables that have passed their sell-by date but are still safe to eat to Shou Shan Zoo in Kaohsiung for use as animal feed.
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2021/01/01 17:29 Shou Shan is known to be abundant with Formosan macaques. (Tourism Bureau photo) Shou Shan is known to be abundant with Formosan macaques. (Tourism Bureau photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A cleaner at Kaohsiung s Shou Shan Zoo was recently attacked by a dozen Formosan macaques while having breakfast and as a result had a left hand fracture. The 60-year-old Taiwanese woman, surnamed Li (李), was eating bread at a plaza in the zoo when the attack happened, according to Shou Shan Zoo Director Chuang Hsuan-chih (莊絢智). The woman said she felt a sharp pain in her left hand before realizing that she had been wounded by a large group of hungry macaques.