Potawatomi Zoo brings back Branch to Browse program

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Potawatomi Zoo is bringing back their program "Branch to Browse" for its fifth consecutive year.

Indiana Michigan Power has been helping Potawatomi Zoo with keeping their animals happy and healthy by providing leaves and branches from tree trimming crews in an order to keep the power lines protected.

This partnership between this power company and zoo continues to be useful in the winter when there aren't as many leaves.

"Our animal world-you've got browsers and you got grazers, and basically that's animals that eat grass. So, when you think about cows, cows are grazers; they're eating a lot of grass. And then you got browsers, and really you can tell it just by their lips and their tongue. If their lips can move and they have a tongue that can move, a prehensile tongue, that usually means they're a browser. So they're grabbing branches, they're pulling the leaves of off. So that's a good way to kind of distinguish it." says Executive Director of Potawatomi Zoo, Josh Sisk.