Animals at Brookfield Zoo celebrate National Watermelon Day
BROOKFIELD, Ill. (CBS) — In case you didn't check your calendar, it's National Watermelon Day.
To celebrate, several animals at Brookfield Zoo were able to get a taste of the summer fruit – each receiving their own watermelon.
The zoo said care staff sliced and cubed the watermelons for the western lowland gorillas, Galapagos tortoises, and Banana, a 3-year-old pygmy hippo, who also got a special slice shaped like the letter 'B."
Layla, a 12-year-old black rhinoceros, Axhi, a 28½-year-old brown bear, and the Zoo's two sloth bears- Kartik and Hani - received whole watermelons.
It's just one of the items most animals receive during the summer, but it also is enrichment for others, the zoo said.
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