Beasts prefer organic foods

  • 2003-02-06
COPENHAGENMonkeys at the Copenhagen Zoo are going ape over organic bananas and other fruits, rejecting traditional foods left in their cages, zoo keepers said last week."For one reason or another the tapirs and chimpanzees are choosing organically grown bananas over the others," keeper Niels Melchiorsen told the magazine Oekologisk Jordbrug (Ecological Agriculture)."Maybe they are able to instinctively tell the difference, and their choice is not at all random," he suggested."The chimpanzees are able to tell the difference between the organic and the regular fruit," Melchiorsen reported. "I...
 
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