During the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, more than 100,000 children were abandoned in Romania's orphanages. Now the last of them are being shut down | The Economist

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Browsing conditions are tough right now — and we mean that quite literally. There is fresh vegetation everywhere, but the orphans’ favourite is a tough grass that is difficult to pull out of the ground using trunks alone. They have devised a clever workaround, stooping to their knees and taking a big bite, using their molars to cut the grass. It’s not the most dignified, but it does the trick! Mzinga and Shujaa demonstrate the technique here — volume up to hear a satisfying ‘chomp.’ (And if Kerr