What Zoo Animals Eat Pumpkins

Is Pumpkin Good for Wildlife.

What zoo animals eat pumpkins. The Cincinnati Zoo has its annual HallZooween the Detroit Zoo holds a yearly Smashing Pumpkins event and the Woodland Zoo puts on a Pumpkin Bash. Animals that are lithe or small enough to go inside the pumpkins like snakes bats and birds eat the pumpkins from the inside out. Some animals that have no interest in eating a pumpkin will receive one anyway.

Even elephants love a. 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. Animals eat Halloween pumpkins in Zoo Budapest and Botanical Garden Source.

10292010 0851am EDT Updated May 25 2011. From the smallest of fish to the largest rhino animals at Chester Zoo were given pumpkins filled with treats to eat and play with and in some cases explore. But it wasnt until about 25 years ago that the Cincinnati Zoo started involving the public.

If youre always watching funny animal videos on your phone put your phone down and see some live-action animal antics at the zoo. Never cook fruits or vegetables before feeding them to your pet. Forget the sugary candy and throw-away costumes.

Smaller animals might just use them more for going into and hanging out he said. At some zoos visitors will find birds with pumpkins polar bears with pumpkins owls with pumpkins. The snow leopards sloth bears meerkats orangutans Rodrigues fruit bats.

Make sure the pumpkins arent rotting covered in candle wax or painted before feeding. A wolverine eats a Halloween pumpkin in Zoo Budapest and Botanical Garden in Budapest Hungary on Oct. Just be sure not to feed animals old pumpkins that have been painted as the paint might be toxic.