The Newest, Cutest Baby Animals from the World's Zoos & Aquariums
While babies are our specialty, we just couldn't resist the Halloween Spirit, and hope you'll enjoy the furry (and-sometimes-not-so-furry!) festivities going on at zoos around the world this week…
Read on and see who else has a taste for pumpkin this year!
Hippity Hoppity Halloween!
Wow! Those are some great shots! I especially love the aquatic ones. Everyone deserves a little Halloween spirit!
I have a hard time picking out my favorite. These are precious!
I would like to know what little doggie has his paw on the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery pumpkin. Is that a wolf pup? A silver Fox? He’s so pretty.
Couldn’t you at least spell CINCINNATI correctly?
Love it. A good highlight just before it is halloween. Thanks.
This is my favorite holiday ever, and my favorite blog ever!!!!! It is a happy, happy Halloween! 😀
Very cute, but I note a definite difference in attitude between those critters who can actually eat their pumpkin, and those who can’t!
That cat (leopard?) in particular seems to be saying “what the heck is this thing?” while the lemur, chimp, and elephant look pretty psyched….
David – Great observation but I must point out that big cats definitely do eat their pumpkins. At the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, the Afghan Leopard ate three pumpkins last year (and then purportedly got sick all over the glass)!
Hmmm… do you think he did that again this year? 😉
But yeah, it’s not always obvious who’s gonna eat what. E.g., That critter at Boonshoft looks pretty carnivorous, but is visibly taking pieces out of his pumpkin. (What is it, anyway?) And of course, some of the other animals seem to be playing with their pumpkins!
And I see now that I managed to mix up the two big cats through overhasty commenting — it’s the tiger who looks more puzzled by his present, and is poking at it. I do wonder how the leopard’s got into the water….
Domestic cats, of course, are known for whimsical tastes — just today I brought mine outdoors for the first time (harness & leash), and she was nibbling at individual grassblades and bits of sorrel, but not the dandelions or various other plants. At home, she usually wants to smell whatever I’m eating, but if I offer her a sample, that’s a different question — she’s liable to ignore even chicken, if I put it in her bowl rather than hand-feeding it to her.
Anything they can do to keep these animals from being bored, must be done…..
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