Without SF parks, these zoo animals wouldn't have anything to eat.
Jorge Trujillo was hanging precariously off the high branches of a tree near Lake Merced when he was scouted.
Trujillo is part of one of the zoo’s horticulture teams, which spends their days searching for eucalyptus in San Francisco parks that looks tasty enough for a koala. It’s part of the “browse” program — a zoology term for animals eating off the leaves of foliage — which supplies more than 60 tons of plant life per year for the zoo’s animals to enjoy. The group of six employees has more than 100 years of collective experience in the field, estimates horticulture manager Greg McCoy.
The SF Zoo currently has two koalas, a 5-year-old male named Cobar Wollemi and a 2-year-old female named Stacey, and they wouldn’t have enough to eat without SF’s many parks. Trujillo has learned over the years that koalas are very picky eaters — they’ll only eat new growth eucalyptus, selecting just the tips of the branches cut for them. They get all their water intake from the plant and prefer a few different species of eucalyptus each day .
Today, the browse team cuts about 5% of the plants it needs from Golden Gate Park and gets the rest from spots like, Stern Grove and even smaller parks like Golden Gate Heights. McCoy said he and his team know the city’s greenery better than anyone, and they’re always scouting for new places to cut. They may even stop when they spot a good-looking tree on the street or inquire at a construction site to save some soon-to-be cleared trees.
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