Malkia was didn’t tear into the food from her enrichment activity right away, “She was really just watching us and eventually curling around to guard the food,” Zookeep Dan Johnson told The ...

Malkia is a little more cautious, and a little more stressed by the numbers. “Just in terms of practicalities of what we can spend, I don’t think I’d say more than $5,000,” she said.

Enrichment is very important in a zoo animal's life. It's the same as how people try do something different every once in awhile. Malkia the lion at the Lake Superior Zoo likes paint.