A male American mink has settled in the Moscow Zoo
A male American mink named Cheburashka has settled in the Moscow Zoo for the first time in more than 40 years. This was reported in the press service of the Moscow Department of Culture on January 15.
The animal was placed in the exposition "Fauna of Russia". It was brought to Moscow from the suburban forestry. Cheburashka quickly got used to the new place and even managed to get used to the staff and visitors, reports the agency of city news "Moscow".
He has a personal comfortable enclosure with a swimming pool, where he has the opportunity to bathe and hunt. While he lives there alone.
"Cheburashka is fed with fish, including live fish - it is specially launched into the pool, and often the prey is almost the same size as the hunter himself. Also the predator is given to eat pieces of chicken and beef", - Life.ru quotes the words of the Director General of the capital's zoo Svetlana Akulova.
He is almost three years old, his weight is 2.2 kg, clarifies the site kp.ru.
January 4, it became known that two Malay bear cubs - Luchik and Zvezdochka - were delivered to the Moscow Zoo. The animals arrived at the end of December and are now in quarantine in the playroom, where they are separated from each other by a grate for security purposes.
