A look at the food used to feed a zoo

ST. LOUIS -- Here's the St. Louis Zoo's "grocery list" for one year to keep its animals well fed:--10 tons of carrots

--6 tons of primate biscuits

--20 tons of herring

--500 cases of bananas

--1.5 tons of squid

--520 cases of apples

--78 tons of herbivore pellets

--15 tons of mackerel

--13,000 bales of hay

--5 tons of smelt

--1.2 million adult crickets

--675 pounds of earthworms

--1,625,000 mealworms

--675,000 waxworms

--1,000 cases of kale

--22,000 adult mice

-- AP