Zoo Hannover gives animals a Halloween party
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Hanover’s zoo team gives animals a Halloween party
Look, the meerkats inspect their party favors.
© Source: Florian Petrov
Hanover. The actual Halloween day on October 31 is still to come, but the zoo has already organized an early pumpkin festival for its animals on Thursday. Polar bears, meerkats and raccoons enjoy the lovingly carved round shapes and their contents.
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In order to keep the animals occupied and to change into their everyday life, let their carers come up with a few ideas. They distribute scented bodies in the enclosures, craft special food containers or toys. The Halloween day already has tradition. Trainees carve grimaces into the pumpkins. It is not known exactly what the animals think of it. In any case, they will appreciate the content – there was something to eat.
It depends on the filling
The meerkats, for example, scurried in and around the pumpkins, pawing, scratching and finally mealworms. Polar bear Nana rolled her specimen around and then disassembled it to get to the fillings of nuts, grapes, lettuce, fish and cod liver oil.
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Halloween isn’t just for animals at the zoo, but also for children from Saturday, October 29th to Monday, October 31st, from 4 p.m. There will be handicrafts and a scary tour through the facilities. Remaining places are still available online shop.erlebnis-zoo.de bookable.
On the day of the Reformation, the summer season ends in the Tierpark an der Eilenriede. It will then be open from Tuesday, November 1st until mid-March next year, daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.