Fruit-Eating Birds: A Guide to Toucans' Diet in the Wild

Rocko Eating Fruit | Toucan Diet

🧡 Happy #ToucanTuesday from Tuki the Chestnut-mandibled Toucan! 🥭 Tuki loves eating papaya, and she is not alone. Papaya makes up a huge part of the diet of almost every animal in our care, and with over 500 mouths to feed, you can imagine that is a lot of fruit! 🥗 Our animal kitchen goes through roughly 1 ton of papaya in just ONE week. And that’s just papaya! For each specialized diet, we must supplement a variety of other fruits and vegetables, as well as fish, meat, seeds, leaves, and oth