スミソニアン国立動物園のインスタグラム(smithsonianzoo) - 8月12日 01時14分

"While the elephants enjoy breakfast in the barn, keepers and keeper aides clean the outdoor habitats and freshen up the enrichment feeders. Our daily maintenance of the elephant enclosures includes cleaning the pools, refilling divots the animals have made in the ground, and creating large mounds of dirt and sand. The elephants enjoy going for a swim—especially on hot summer days—and will often roll around the mounds, lean up against them for a rest, and toss the dirt and sand onto their backs to protect their skin from the sun. In addition to providing these natural enrichment elements to their enclosures, we also set up puzzle feeders and other large toys in the yard to encourage the elephants to explore, forage and play.Our keeper aides are Friends of the National Zoo (FONZ) volunteers, and they assist us in cleaning the enclosures. Each elephant eats between 100 to 125 pounds of food every day. Elephants defecate between eight and 10 times every day, and there are six or seven boli (poop) in a pile. That breaks down to about one pile per elephant every two hours! Thanks to the help of our volunteers, keepers can spend our time focusing on husbandry, enrichment and training to provide the best quality care for the elephants."- Paige Babel, elephant keeper #WorldElephantDay

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