Zoo animals in Athens at risk as crisis hits feed imports

Children look a giraffe at the Attica Park zoo near Athens July 11, 2013. REUTERS/John Kolesidis

ATHENS (Reuters) - Curious and noisy, a group of Madagascar lemurs surround Jean-Jacques Lesueur, founder of Attica Park in Athens, unaware that the special biscuits he is handing out to them are running low and they may soon not have enough to eat.

Three weeks after capital controls were imposed on Greece's moribund banking system, supplies of the special imported dietary supplements needed to feed 2,200 animals from 345 species at Athens' only zoo are under threat.