The Daily Beast - 13 Spooky Pumpkin Eaters - Oct 31, 2012

Zoos around the world treat their animals to a little Halloween pumpkin treat.  Happy Halloween!

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Meerkats at the zoo in Leipzig, eastern Germany, inspect a carved pumpkin filled with flour worms and straw.

 

 

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Jimma, a 27-year-old male rhino, enjoys a Halloween pumpkin treat at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill.

 

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Almaz, a three-year-old male white African lion, plays with a pumpkin inside his enclosureat the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

 

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Aurora, a two-year-old female polar bear, plays with a pumpkin inside her open air cage during the Zoo Halloween Weekend event at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

 

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Rocky the Raccoon plays with a carved pumpkin at Bristol Zoo, Bristol, England.

 

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Glenda, a 7-year-old western lowland gorilla, examines a carved pumpkin at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens.

 

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A Lorikeets parrot pulls treats from a carved pumpkin during an animal enrichment program at the Oklahoma City Zoo in Oklahoma City.

 

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Raja, a Komodo Dragon, bites a carved pumpkin during a Halloween-themed media event at the London Zoo.  Raja appears as himself in the latest James Bond film "Skyfall."

 

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Jae Jae, a Sumatran tiger, plays with a carved pumpkin during a Halloween-themed media event at the London Zoo.

 

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Maggie, a giraffe plays with a carved pumpkin during a Halloween-themed media event at the London Zoo.

 

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The San Diego Zoo's  6-month-old jaguar, Tikal, enjoyed rolling a jack-olantern around his exhibit.

 

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Bantu, a lion cub born in captivity two months ago, leaves his pumpkin behind him at the zoo in Cali, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia.

 

AP Photo/Chicago Zoological Society, Jim Schulz

A meerkat attempts to crawl inside a carved out pumpkin to get at some tasty meal worms at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill.