A colony of excited banded mongooses at the Houston Zoo gleefully splash around in a kiddie pool filled with colored balls, an activity that encourages their natural instinct to dig.
What do you get when you make a ball pit out of a kiddie pool and put it in the mongoose habitat at the Houston Zoo? Watch to find out!This is a type of enrichment for our animals – mongooses dig as a part of their natural behavior, and a ball pit encourages digging. And well, it’s a heck of a lot of fun for every species.
