PHOTOS: Animals explore donated Christmas trees at Austin Zoo

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Christmas is just starting for some in Central Texas, and you can help them celebrate with your holiday leftovers.
The Austin Zoo is collecting Christmas trees to give to its animals to play with and hunt through for food. You can donate your tree — once you remove all the ornaments, tinsel, and other non-natural items — from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day at the front of the zoo’s gift shop, and employees will re-purpose it into a treat for the animals there.