Animals Perform Tricks for Halloween

Nov 1, 2010 0 comments

Zoos around Europe put carved pumpkins in animal enclosures to see what would happen. Here is what happened.

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Siberian tiger Ingrid and her four-month-old cubs, Rosa (left) and Zaria, investigate a pumpkin at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent

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Rosa pounces on the pumpkin

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Chimpanzee Blossom eyes up a pumpkin in her enclosure at Blair Drummond safari park in Scotland

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Foufou, a western lowland gorilla, with her two-year-old baby Louna, plays with a pumpkin at Port Lympne wild animal park

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A ring-tailed lemur inspects a pumpkin at the Bioparco zoo in Rome, Italy

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A northern plains grey langur plays with a carved pumpkin at Nyiregyhaza animal park in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary

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A Japanese macaque plays with a pumpkin at the Bioparco zoo

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Japanese macaques sit above a pumpkin at the Bioparco zoo

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An orangutan nibbles a pumpkin at the Tierpark Hagenbeck in Hamburg, Germany

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A red-crowned crane, also called a Japanese crane or Manchurian crane, takes a bite from a Halloween pumpkin at Nyiregyhaza animal park

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An orangutan eats a pumkin in her enclosure in the Tierpark Hagenbeck

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Two orangutans share a pumkin in their enclosure in the Tierpark Hagenbeck

[via The Guardian]

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