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. 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. REMKO DE WAALAFPGetty Images That special season of autumn is with us again.

Gorilla Koko enjoys a pumpkin tossed into his habitat at the Detroit Zoo. The snow leopards sloth bears meerkats orangutans Rodrigues fruit bats. A wolverine eats a Halloween pumpkin in Zoo Budapest and Botanical Garden in Budapest Hungary on Oct.

Chimps share a pumpkin during Smashing Pumpkins at the Detroit Zoo. Today animals at Brookfield Zoo were treated to some Halloween treatspumpkins. The elephants picked them up and within seconds the pumpkins were squashed.

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. Just be sure not to feed animals old pumpkins that have been painted as the paint might be toxic. The zoos inhabitants were given pumpkins and other seasonal munchies to.

Plenty of the animals are enjoying the pumpkins Elephants goats capybaras and giant tortoises all love to eat pumpkins. Is Pumpkin Good for Wildlife. At the Cincinnati Zoo Evans says staff members let the animals decide what to do with the gourds.

See the whole list of animals lucky enough to get pumpkins. Animals Eat Smash And Play With Pumpkins. Gorillas and elephants just love the simple taste of pumpkins the spokesperson of the zoo told us.