What Zoo Animals Eat Pumpkins

Some animals that have no interest in eating a pumpkin will receive one anyway.

What zoo animals eat pumpkins. Many people think butternut squash is a vegetable but It is really a fruit. This is when the animals devour treat-stuffed pumpkins. Plenty of the animals are enjoying the pumpkins Elephants goats capybaras and giant tortoises all love to eat pumpkins.

Animals Eat Smash And Play With Pumpkins. REMKO DE WAALAFPGetty Images That special season of autumn is with us again. 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.

Smaller animals might just use them more for going into and hanging out he said. At the Cincinnati Zoo Evans says staff members let the animals decide what to do with the gourds. According to Evans zoos have been giving animals pumpkins since the existence of zoos.

Animals such as elephants chimpanzees baboons goats and camels enjoy eating and playing with the pumpkins. The zoos inhabitants were given pumpkins and other seasonal munchies to. In 2009 the Minnesota Zoo shared footage of their grizzly bears tearing into a 500-pound behemoth as part of their Halloween celebration.

Animals have the right idea. 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. Today animals at Brookfield Zoo were treated to some Halloween treatspumpkins.

The elephants picked them up and within seconds the pumpkins were squashed. Never cook fruits or vegetables before feeding them to your pet. Chimps share a pumpkin during Smashing Pumpkins at the Detroit Zoo.