If you have a spare perfume, a zoo in Norfolk England will be very glad to take it off your hands. Banham Zoo has announced that it is soliciting fragrance donations. This is because the ocelots, jaguars, and cheetahs are enamored with the intoxicating scents of perfumes, and they are running out of their supply. Don’t worry that the large cats won’t like your perfume, as they are apparently open to different fragrances, as Time detailed:
The draw of a good perfume for both domestic cats but also wild cats is well-documented in various research projects. It can be positively enchanting for the big cats.
Chalk it up to the civetone, a natural perfume ingredient that comes from the animal civet (a small nocturnal animal) that labs can manufacture now, according to the Bronx Zoo’s testing.
“The keepers at Banham have noticed their stocks of old perfumes are running low and are hoping that visitors to the zoo might also want to drop off any old or unwanted scents when they visit,” as the announcement puts it.
“Our big cats definitely react positively when scents are used as part of their enrichment program. For some reason Calvin Klein perfume is a huge hit with all big cats but in all honesty, any perfumes work well and we do like to offer them a variety of different smells,” animal manager Mike Woolham said in the announcement.
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I had an Ocellot when I lived in Bolivia. He was crazy for Right Guard spray deodorant, he went after my arm pit when I went to bed. So I sprayed some on the floor so I could sleep. He rolled in it for 5 minutes and climbed the face of the door to go out through the skylight, smelling like a dandy. there were only neighorhood cats in the area but they flocked around him like groupies. I had to retrieve him before things got messy.
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