PRAGUE: At first, their elephant dung was sold to gardeners as fertiliser. Now Prague Zoo has come up with a new use for it: making paper. The zoo has joined forces with the country's famed hand paper mill in Velke Losiny to process the manure to be used in traditional paper-making techniques. Petr Foucek, a director from Velke Losiny, says the 420-year-old mill has made paper from all sorts of materials but elephant dung 'is something new for us.' Visitors will be able to make their own paper at a new zoo facility starting Friday. The announcement comes almost five years after the zoo began selling elephant dung in 1-kilogram (2.2-pound) containers. The brains behind the project is zoo director Miroslav Bobek, whose surname literally means 'dung' in Czech.