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Tucking into Pumpkins


A South American Coati mundi enjoys wrecking a pumpkin at Exmoor Zoo. Many of the 100-plus animals at the zoo have been given their own pumpkin stuffed full of Halloween treats.		Holly the gibbon uses all four limbs and explores her pumpkin. Tina Reynolds, a zoo animal conservation biology student, arranged the pumpkins for the animals. "Enrichment is something that goes on all the time in many BIAZA zoos," she said.


One ring-tailed lemur is thrilled to find bits of banana inside his pumpkin		One ring-tailed lemur is thrilled to find bits of banana inside his pumpkin


Pedro the armadillo just breaks his way in and forgets the niceties. Tina says having the pumpkins encourages exercise and behaviours that animals would use in the wild.