What Zoo Animals Eat Pumpkins

The fall season kicks off the nation-wide frenzy for pumpkin-flavored treats.

What zoo animals eat pumpkins. Gorillas and elephants just love the simple taste of pumpkins the spokesperson of the zoo told us. Even snakes may get them. Butternut squash or butternut pumpkin is safe for guinea pigs.

Is Pumpkin Good for Wildlife. 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. This is when the animals devour treat-stuffed pumpkins.

Some animals that have no interest in eating a pumpkin will receive one anyway. Many of the most prominent zoos including the Brookfield Zoo Detroit Zoo Smithsonian Zoo Oakland Zoo and Los Angeles Zoo have historically given their animals pumpkins for Halloween and engaged the public in the process. Check out these pictures of all different species of animals from all over the world with one thing in common.

At some zoos visitors will find birds with pumpkins polar bears with pumpkins owls with pumpkins. At the Prospect Park Zoo dingoes and baboons will be served at noon and 230 pm and at the Queens Zoo pumas and bears will tear into. If youre always watching funny animal videos on your phone put your phone down and see some live-action animal antics at the zoo.

After a countdown keepers at the Kansas City Zoo rolled bright orange pumpkins into the elephant exhibit. What animals can eat pumpkin. REMKO DE WAALAFPGetty Images That special season of autumn is with us again.

The wolves and bears made it a contest to collect and eat as much pumpkins as possible. 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. When it comes to Halloween zoo animals just want the jack-o-lanterns.