Celebrate Halloween With Detroit Zoo Animals

ROYAL OAK, MI — Detroit Zoo animals will have a smashing good time Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018, when they receive pumpkins filled with tasty treats to eat, play with, roll around in, tear apart and smash.

Each year around Halloween, Detroit Zoological Society (DZS) staff provide the animals with seasonal munchies – including pumpkins, gourds, cornstalks and other fall harvest goodies – as part of its comprehensive program of ensuring environments for animals that are ever changing and appropriately complex.

All year round, food items are hidden throughout the animals’ habitats or prepared and placed in order to stimulate natural behaviors such as foraging or stalking.

“Around Halloween, seasonal fare from local Michigan producers gives this activity a special appeal for both Zoo visitors and the animals,” said Scott Carter, DZS chief life sciences officer.

Schedule:

10:30 a.m. – penguins
11 a.m. – anteaters
11:30 a.m. – vultures
Noon – great apes
12:30 p.m. – polar bears
1 p.m. – grizzly bears
1:30 p.m. – giraffes
2 p.m. – snow monkeys

For hours, prices, directions and other information, call (248) 541-5717 or visit detroitzoo.org. Image via Detroit Zoological Society