Captain Sam Mitchell from Wightlink said it was a “real joy” to see the giraffes enjoying the rings.<\/p>\n
“We always try to find a use for surplus materials rather than sending them away as waste,” he said.<\/p>\n
Marwell Zoo initially contacted Wightlink to ask whether it had any surplus equipment that could be upcycled for use with its animals.<\/p>\n
Keeper Erin Luter said the giraffes “loved” their new “fun snack feeders”.<\/p>\n
She said: “Enrichment is incredibly important for encouraging natural behaviours and keeping our animals active and engaged, so it’s fantastic to be able to reuse materials in such a creative way.”<\/p>\n
Wightlink has previously donated old supplies to Isle of Wight animal charities including the Wildheart Animal Sanctuary<\/a>, the Isle of Wight Monkey Haven and the Wight Squirrel Project, as well as Dorset’s Monkey World<\/a>.<\/p>\n It said it had also contacted Amazon World to explore whether any surplus equipment could benefit animals there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Sam Mitchell from Wightlink said it was a “real joy” to see the giraffes enjoying the rings.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-510395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}