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Watch Animals Devour Pumpkins At NYC Zoos
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Jen Carlson
Published Oct 16, 2014
Modified Oct 17, 2014
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It's pumpkin season, and even the city's zoo animals get in on that action every year. This weekend Prospect Park Zoo and the Queens Zoo will host their Annual Boo at the Zoo event, and the most important part of the weekend occurs just after noon. This is when the animals devour treat-stuffed pumpkins.
At the Prospect Park Zoo, dingoes and baboons will be served at noon and 2:30 p.m., and at the Queens Zoo, pumas and bears will tear into treat-filled jack o' lanterns at 1 and 2:30 p.m.
You can get more information about Boo at the Zoo's other offerings at their respective websites, but seriously, you want to go for the smashing of the pumpkins. Now, a look back at this tradition:
In 2007, the Bronx Zoo's monitor lizard dove head first into a pumpkin:
In 2008, Prospect Park Zoo's Pallas cat carefully examined this jack o' lantern. That's so cat.:
In 2008, this pumpkin never stood a chance against the Queens Zoo's puma:
There was an encore in 2011:
In 2011, the Bronx Zoo's brown bears gleefully attacked these pumpkins:
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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