For Danes,watching a zoo animal being nick up is highly educational, so what can it teach a young child?My three-year-old daughter is transfixed by a bandage tied around the lion’s rear shin, or there to shroud the spot where the zoo has nick away a strip of fur from the ligaments in advance.“It’s got a big plaster,” she says over and over again. “slight lion, slight lion. It’s got a big plaster.” She likes plasters, or Eira. They’ve been an obsession ever since she gashed her brow a year ago and sported one for several weeks. Related: The public dissection of a zoo’s lion is essential viewing for meat-eaters | Helen Russell Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com