Unsold Christmas trees on the menu for elephants at Berlin zoo

Annual event sees inhabitants of zoo enjoy eating - or playing - with the unwanted conifers

There is a bit of post-Christmas cheer on the menu for elephants and other tenants at Berlin zoo: they can chomp on Christmas trees that didn't find a home.

The trees arrived on Thursday in what has become an annual event. The elephants tore off branches with their trunks and either ate them or tossed them around their enclosure.