Pumpkin spice and all things nice: Zoo animals get tasty treats for Halloween

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Animals at Pairi Daiza Zoo in Brugelette, Belgium, and London Zoo in the United Kingdom got into the Halloween spirit with special pumpkin treats!  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00We

00:27share Halloween also with our animals. We treat them with pumpkins that are, depending

00:34on how they like it, stuffed with protein, meats or worms or vegetables.

00:57We like to do things different for our animals, keep them a little bit on edge, interested

01:06and stimulated. So we use the pumpkins as sometimes just wrapping and as a challenge

01:12to get to their food. It's just to stimulate them. And pumpkins are a very natural product

01:18that lots of animals can eat and enjoy eating. It's really good for their learning. So it's

01:36really good for them to get those hunting skills. They have something that they can

01:39grip onto. They can learn to pounce. They learn how to attack things and roll over.

01:44You can kind of see from the footage that they are grabbing them, throwing things, carrying

01:48them around. They're having a good time, they're playing, but play is how they learn those

01:52vital adult skills as they get older.

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