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Video: Toucan's kerplunk fun

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Video: Toucans play the
Kerplunk-style game. Footage from Youtube

This restaurant looks fun, but be warned - the bills are
huge.

Toucans are having a great time at Leeds Castle near Maidstone
thanks to the efforts of an ingenious keeper who invented a fun
lunchtime game.

Mairee Vincent designed this version of the children's game
KerPlunk to help enrich the lives of the castle's colourful and
rare Toco Toucans.

In the children's game, a canister has many
coloured straws stuck through it and several marbles balanced on
the top. The aim is to remove the straws without dropping the
marbles.

The birds have to work out how to remove chopsticks from a
suspended tube in order to release fruit contained inside.

But it's not just good for the birds - Toucan KerPlunk has
won praise for Mairee too having been voted ‘Best Environmental
Enrichment Device’ by animal experts at The Regional Environmental
Enrichment Conference (REEC) in May.

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