{"id":377085,"date":"2026-04-06T01:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377085\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:06:08","slug":"a-chilean-zoo-stages-an-easter-egg-hunt-with-treats-for-the-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377085\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chilean zoo stages an Easter egg hunt with treats for the animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) \u2014 Step aside, children \u2014 this <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/easter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Easter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Easter&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Easter<\/a> egg hunt is for zoo animals only.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the largest private zoo in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/chile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chile;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chile&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Chile<\/a>, several of its animal residents \u2014 meerkats, monkeys, lemurs and others \u2014 searched on Sunday for their food packaged as Easter egg-themed treats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u201cegg hunt\u201d is an annual event at Bioparque Buinzoo in the country\u2019s capital, Santiago, meant to both entertain visitors and stimulate natural food-hunting behavior in various species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zookeepers placed small bags decorated like Easter eggs but packed with meat in the enclosures of small felines, such as caracals, who leapt up tree branches to get their snacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A meerkat had a basket with eggs placed in between some rocks in its enclosure. Monkeys and lemurs were treated to fruits hidden in brown paper bags decorated with bunny years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ignacio Idalsoaga, the zoo&#8217;s director, said that \u201cin nature, these animals spend much of their life looking for food\u201d so the zoo wanted to recreate that behavior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The treats and snacks were \u201cnot chocolate eggs,\u201d he added reassuringly but foods the animals would eat in their natural habitat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The annual even has been held for the past 16 years, Idalsoaga said. This year, sheep also had to forage for their food pellets inside a colorful sphere with holes in it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOur creative team has been very imaginative this year\u201d Idalsoaga said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) \u2014 Step aside, children \u2014 this Easter egg hunt is for zoo animals only. At&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11310,39833,180758,146,85,46,77623,66260],"class_list":{"0":"post-377085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-chile","9":"tag-easter-eggs","10":"tag-egg-hunt","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-santiago","15":"tag-zoo-animals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}