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Why animals need a healthy diet

Zookeepers talk about the diet needed to keep a gorilla and a penguin healthy. A healthy diet gives the animals energy and helps them to recover from illness. Gorillas are vegetarian and eat a large variety of fruit and vegetables. Chestnut is a six-month-old penguin who has been hand-reared. He eats 20 to 30 fish each day and is very hungry and demanding. If the penguin did not eat he would lose body weight, become ill and eventually die.

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