What Zoo Animals Eat Pumpkins

A wolverine eats a Halloween pumpkin in Zoo Budapest and Botanical Garden in Budapest Hungary on Oct.

What zoo animals eat pumpkins. The snow leopards sloth bears meerkats orangutans Rodrigues fruit bats. Red Panda Cub Pabu Snacks On Grapes. 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.

Sometimes the animals eat the pumpkins and sometimes they smash them stomp them scratch them up and roll them around. Animals have the right idea. REMKO DE WAALAFPGetty Images That special season of autumn is with us again.

Guinea pigs have very sensitive stomachs and cannot digest cooked food properly. Make sure the pumpkins arent rotting covered in candle wax or painted before feeding. Is Pumpkin Good for Wildlife.

Even elephants love a. Never cook fruits or vegetables before feeding them to your pet. You cavy can eat butternut pumpkin when it is ripe.

Chimps share a pumpkin during Smashing Pumpkins at the Detroit Zoo. According to Evans zoos have been giving animals pumpkins since the existence of zoos. If youre always watching funny animal videos on your phone put your phone down and see some live-action animal antics at the zoo.

At the Cincinnati Zoo Evans says staff members let the animals decide what to do with the gourds. 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. Its good for you so you can bet all kinds of critters will enjoy it.