What Zoo Animals Eat Pumpkins

Tigers, orangutans, tortoises, elephants and jaguars at the phoenix zoo get in the fall spirit by playing with and eating pumpkins.

What zoo animals eat pumpkins. If there’s some meat stuffed inside, all the better! If you have leftover, unsold or unaltered pumpkins, ellen trout zoo will give them to the animals to play with them and eat them. It gives the pumpkins to its animals.

Elephants love to crush the fruits. Animals at the phoenix zoo eat pumpkins for a treat. Animals love eating pumpkins when fall comes around!

They eat and play with them. They love a good pumpkin. In states experiencing outbreaks of chronic wasting disease, attracting deer to a pile of pumpkins could lead to disease.

Gorillas, and elephants just love the simple taste of pumpkins,” the spokesperson of the zoo told us. Offers an incentive in the weeks surrounding halloween: The hippos enjoyed the treat as well, showing off just how.

But it wasn’t until about 25 years ago that the cincinnati zoo started involving the public. Pets & pumpkins go together like tricks and treats, especially this time of year when the smithsonian's national zoo provides their animals with plenty of pumpkins to help bring out the halloween spirit. 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.

And all kinds of animals love to search for treats hidden in them. Pumpkins are given as special toys and meals to animals, including prairie dogs and tigers, at amersfoort zoo as part of halloween celebrations.(photos:vcg) This clip of animals eating pumpkins is a delightful palate cleanser.