A zoo in Denmark is asking for donations of small pets as food for its predators to help their larger predators have a diverse diet.

Aalborg Zoo, in northern Denmark, said they’re attempting to mimic the natural food chain of the animals housed there ‘for the sake of both animal welfare and professional integrity’.

The zoo said pets offered would be ‘gently euthanised’ by trained staff, and suggested guinea pigs, rabbits and chickens as possible donations.

Aalborg Zoo’s big predators include Sumatran tigers, Asiatic lions, and European lynx.

In a Facebook post, they explained: ‘Chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs make up an important part of the diet of our predators – especially in the European locust, which needs whole prey, which is reminiscent of what it would naturally hunt in the w

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