What Zoo Animals Eat Pumpkins

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What zoo animals eat pumpkins. Gorilla Koko enjoys a pumpkin tossed into his habitat at the Detroit Zoo. Its good for you so you can bet all kinds of critters will enjoy it. See the whole list of animals lucky enough to get pumpkins.

Today animals at Brookfield Zoo were treated to some Halloween treatspumpkins. Animals that are lithe or small enough to go inside the pumpkins like snakes bats and birds eat the pumpkins from the inside out. At different times animals ranging from hippos to penguins will get pumpkin treats to play with.

REMKO DE WAALAFPGetty Images That special season of autumn is with us again. After a countdown keepers at the Kansas City Zoo rolled bright orange pumpkins into the elephant exhibit. But it wasnt until about 25 years ago that the Cincinnati Zoo started involving the public.

Sometimes the animals eat the pumpkins and sometimes they smash them stomp them scratch them up and roll them around. Smaller animals might just use them more for going into and hanging out he said. In 2009 the Minnesota Zoo shared footage of their grizzly bears tearing into a 500-pound behemoth as part of their Halloween celebration.

In the case of others like the lions bats geese and meerkats we use the pumpkins as feeding devices by carving holes into the pumpkins and hiding treats inside. According to Evans zoos have been giving animals pumpkins since the existence of zoos. When it comes to Halloween zoo animals just want the jack-o-lanterns.

Is Pumpkin Good for Wildlife. Many people think butternut squash is a vegetable but It is really a fruit. The snow leopards sloth bears meerkats orangutans Rodrigues fruit bats.