Otterly amazing – Halloween at the Zoo

This week is “Boo at the Zoo!” at Whipsnade zoo. On Otter Island, five of the males have their favourite meat treats hidden inside these pumpkin lanterns and visitors can watch them scavenge for the treats.

Apparently its good for their health - Otter keeper Alex Pinnell said: “They use their sense of smell first and once they realise there’s food inside they use their paws – which are really sensitive – to play with the pumpkins and forage for the meat inside with their claws. It’s a great enrichment activity for them.”

There’s only one thing cuter than otters digging into pumpkins, and that’s lion cubs:

You can see the lions eating pumpkins at London Zoo. The keepers are hiding the food around the lion’s enclosure so the cubs hunt for it. Head Keeper Tracey Lee said: “The cubs are really mischievous animals and I’m sure they loved having something new to investigate.”

FYI: Lemurs are known as the “ghosts of Madagascar”

London lions go Boo at the Zoo

Whipsnade otters go Boo at the Zoo

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