Kansas zoo serves feast fit for elephants

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- The Sedgwick County Zoo didn't forget about its elephants on Thanksgiving.

Several families turned out Thursday as African elephants Cinda and Stephanie were treated to a special feast.

Zookeeper Norma Gheen says she has prepared a Thanksgiving meal for the elephants for about six years.

The main course, turkey, is a paper bag with sweet potato slices as feathers.

Gheen says that because cardboard and paper are made from trees, eating them is much like eating tree branches, a regular part of an elephant diet.

The elephants weren't the only zoo animals to get a Thanksgiving treat. The gorillas got to tear up paper turkeys.