The sweet potato, an unusual treat, was the first to be consumed. The gibbon family spent over 3 hours foraging and then playing with the leaves, as well as eating them, when the food treats were gone. A mop head was strung with fruit loops on individual strings and hung in the white-handed gibbon exhibit, to encourage foraging.
Japan is shown here unstringing the fruit loops.
Micah, the youngster, is shown here hugging the mop. After the fruit loops were gone, he monopolized the mop. Micah spent the next 5 hours playing with it , by swinging on it, biting it, sitting on it and wrestling with it. On a different day, a one gallon juice block, with mixed fruit pieces frozen into it , was hung in their exhibit. The parents, Japan and Sandy, along with little Micah, spent over 3 hours licking the block and picking the fruit out it as the block melted.