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Dallas Zoo intern creates homemade scratching device for long residing tortoise

Tortoises standing in the wild
Tortoises standing in the wild
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Sunny is a radiated tortoise in the Dallas Zoo with one special love in his life: his homemade scratching device.

It's made out of broom heads, and was actually created by Dallas Zoo intern Morgan Brem, and Sunny can't get enough!


Robin Ryan, supervisor of ambassador animal experiences at Dallas Zoo, told Good News Network, "She made it adjustable to see if our ambassador armadillo would also be interested, but so far, we have only seen Sunny use it."

The top brush was lowered twice to "maximize scratching abilities" for Sunny, who has been at the Dallas Zoo since 1980.

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