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PHOTO ESSAY/Kaohsiung zoo serves up animal-friendly 'zongzi' for Dragon Boat Festival

06/20/2026 08:18 PM
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Two coatis -- a raccoon relative with a long snout -- enjoy iced zongzi featuring diced mango, corn and carrots, and other ingredients. Photo courtesy of Shoushan Zoo
Two coatis -- a raccoon relative with a long snout -- enjoy iced zongzi featuring diced mango, corn and carrots, and other ingredients. Photo courtesy of Shoushan Zoo

Kaohsiung, June 20 (CNA) A public zoo in Kaohsiung on Friday laid out a wide array of "zongzi" featuring vegetables, hay and other ingredients for its animals to mark the Dragon Boat Festival.

The city's tourism department said that unlike human zongzi, which are mainly made of rice and pork, the zoo prepared special zongzi tailored to the eating habits and characteristics of different animals at the Shoushan Zoo.

A Kunekune, a small breed of pig from New Zealand, curiously sniffs a zongzi wrapped in shell ginger leaves filled with carrots, bok choy, dried alfalfa and oats. Photo courtesy of Shoushan Zoo
A Kunekune, a small breed of pig from New Zealand, curiously sniffs a zongzi wrapped in shell ginger leaves filled with carrots, bok choy, dried alfalfa and oats. Photo courtesy of Shoushan Zoo
A Bengal tiger plays with a specially made giant "tiger-striped" zongzi made of pasture grass. Photo courtesy of Shoushan Zoo
A Bengal tiger plays with a specially made giant "tiger-striped" zongzi made of pasture grass. Photo courtesy of Shoushan Zoo
A black bear wolfs down a zongzi made of duck meat and boiled eggs and wrapped in shell ginger leaves, including the leaves themselves. Photo courtesy of Shoushan Zoo
A black bear wolfs down a zongzi made of duck meat and boiled eggs and wrapped in shell ginger leaves, including the leaves themselves. Photo courtesy of Shoushan Zoo

(By Lin Chiao-lien and Teng Pei-ju)

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