Animals at Blair Drummond Safari park have been getting into the spirit of Halloween with pumpkins stuffed with their favourite foods.
The carved puumpkins were filled with the animals’ favourite foods, and visitors gathered to watch the park’s residents, including lions, bears and meerkats, enjoying the spooky snacks.
Dave Warren, education officer at Blair Drummond, near Stirling, said that while the activity is designed to be fun, it also helps the animals’ development.
He said: “We’ve just been having a little bit of fun carving up pumpkins and putting some of the animals’ favourite treats inside them, before dropping them into the enclosures for the animals to inspect.
“The animals are coming across something new so we’re encouraging their curiosity and inquisitive nature to explore a foreign object within their enclosure.
“The pumpkins are seasonal, but when it comes to enriching the lives of the animals we do it on a daily basis. We try to get some form of enrichment into the enclosures every day to keep the animals occupied.
“It definitely draws the crowd, it gets visitors guessing as to what we’re doing and they can see the purpose behind what we’re doing. It’s all a good bit of fun.”
Visitors can tour the park until 28 October, when it closes for winter, reopening in March.