What Zoo Animals Eat Pumpkins

This is when the animals devour treat-stuffed pumpkins.

What zoo animals eat pumpkins. Butternut squash or butternut pumpkin is safe for guinea pigs. Is Pumpkin Good for Wildlife. Gorilla Koko enjoys a pumpkin tossed into his habitat at the Detroit Zoo.

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. After a countdown keepers at the Kansas City Zoo rolled bright orange pumpkins into the elephant exhibit. Smaller animals might just use them more for going into and hanging out he said.

Even elephants love a. REMKO DE WAALAFPGetty Images That special season of autumn is with us again. Make sure the pumpkins arent rotting covered in candle wax or painted before feeding.

The fall season kicks off the nation-wide frenzy for pumpkin-flavored treats. Animals eat Halloween pumpkins in Zoo Budapest and Botanical Garden Source. Today animals at Brookfield Zoo were treated to some Halloween treatspumpkins.

Red Panda Cub Pabu Snacks On Grapes. Check out these pictures of all different species of animals from all over the world with one thing in common. But it wasnt until about 25 years ago that the Cincinnati Zoo started involving the public.

Some animals that have no interest in eating a pumpkin will receive one anyway. The elephants picked them up and within seconds the pumpkins were squashed. Plenty of zoo animals are also set to benefit from the bumper crop.