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The Memphis Zoo's Annual Grocery List. 3,000 hungry mouths each day
Fresh Foods:
15 tons carrots
15 tons apples
7 tons oranges
9,000 eggs
8,500 heads of lettuce
1,200 pounds onions
60 miles of bananas
Prepared and Frozen Foods:
100 tons calf feed
50 tons horse feed
12 tons feline diet
10 tons dog feed
20 tons herring
18 tons dry primate diet
5 tons bird of prey diet
8 tons smelts, sardines & other seafood
15 tons canine diet
2.5 tons bird seed
600 pounds shrimp
Grasses:
60 tons grass hay
55 tons alfalfa hay
1,200 bales wheat straw
30 tons alfalfa cubes
Other foods:
800,000 crickets
40,318,000 meal worms
200,000 minnows
97,680 rats and mice
30 pounds other worms
The Memphis Zoo's Annual Grocery Bill: US $300,000
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