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Elephants eating pumpkins
The Houston Zoo invites all little ghouls and goblins to its final days of the family favorite Zoo Boo through Oct. 31. Guests will enjoy animal-themed carved pumpkins throughout the zoo, which are perfect for a fall portrait, and walk through a pumpkin tunnel made up of 500 pumpkin lanterns, located near the lion exhibit.
New this year, stay late and enjoy Zoo Boo After Hours every Friday in October. On Fridays, the Zoo will close at 8:30 p.m., with last entry at 7:30 p.m. and guests will enjoy thrills and chills at the Bug House – a walk through the spooky-themed lights in the African Forest and jump onto the interactive dance floor at the John P. McGovern Children’s Zoo.
Guests are encouraged to wear their best costumes and enter the Zoo’s frightfully delightful weekly Halloween digital costume contest.
The animals will also be joining in on the fun. They will receive fall-themed enrichment including carved pumpkins, cinnamon scented paw-zzles and fall favorite treats. Enrichment plays an important role at the Zoo. The zoo’s dedicated animal care teams provide animals with a variety of daily enrichments to help keep them physically and mentally stimulated. Each day, the enrichment will help animals exercise their cognitive, behavioral, or sensory skills.
All Zoo Boo activities are included with general admission. Tickets and reservations must be made online at houstonzoo.org.
By visiting the Houston Zoo during Zoo Boo, guests help save creatures – including bugs – in the wild. Invertebrate species all over the world are in decline due to habitat loss. The Zoo provides support for replanting trees in Asia, Africa and South America and uses recycled content toilet paper to protect bugs, and other animals, forested homes as trees are not used in recycled content toilet paper.
The Houston Zoo is located at 6200 Hermann Park Drive.