LOOKING AFTER ELEPHANTS IN A ZOO
Elephants love having a bath and (1)______ regular daily care includes a two- hour shower and brush in summer, and a dust bath in winter, to (2)_______ old skin. Their feet must also be looked at every day as stones get stuck (3)________ their toes. That´s easy (4)_____! Their eating habits, however, demand a lot more attention, according to zoo owner Michael Booth, (5)_______ once described the elephant as an enormous fire that needs (6)______ of fuel. This is (7)_____ elephants in the wild (8)______ most of their time eating. The ones in Booth’s zoo eat large (9)_______ of vegetables and fruit but their favorite food is bread. It cost about $25 a day to (10)______ a fully-grown elephant. A male elephant is roughly the same size as a bus, so isn’t a good (11)______ to make (12)_____ elephant angry!