Animals at this zoo are getting into the Halloween spirit.
Monkeys, sloths, capybaras and beavers were among the animals treated to carved pumpkins as a seasonal snack at Drusillas Park near Alfriston.
Keepers carved the fruits and lined them with snacks and treats, creating brilliant pumpkin head photo results.
“It’s really important for us to give our animals stimulation and enrichment every day, and many of them already have pumpkin as part of their natural diet. Each day we try to mix it up and provide a new form of enrichment for them,” said zookeeper Claudia Farley.
“In the wild food wouldn’t just be handed to them every day, so this is a great way to make them work for it.”
The leftovers of the pumpkin decorations will be offered to many of the zoo’s 800 animals once the celebrations are over so they will not go to waste.
This is part of a week of spooky events at Drusillas Park for its Halloween Shriek Week.
Over the half term, visitors will be able to enjoy a live-action haunted house, a mummy maze and creepy crawly encounters.
Shriek Week is on now and continues until October 30.
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