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What is it about animals and pumpkins? They seem to like them, and we like looking at them. Newt, a Rodriguez fruit bat, climbs on a pumpkin at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Jim Schulz//Chicago Zoological Society/AP
A kangaroo checks out a pumpkin at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Jim Schulz/Chicago Zoological Society/AP
A group of meerkats explores a Halloween pumpkin at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Ted S. Warren/AP
A monkey reaches out to a carved pumpkin at the Bioparco in Rome. Rome's Bio-park press office/AP
Lemurs are interested in a carved pumpkin offered them at the Bioparco in Rome. Rome's Bio-park press office/AP
Baby elephant Malee plays with a pumpkin at the Oklahoma City Zoo in Oklahoma City. Sue Ogrocki/AP
Arthur the tiger chows down on a pumpkin that was given to him for enrichment at the Big Cat Rescue, a non-profit sanctuary on Easy Street in Tampa, Fla. Octavio Jones/St. Petersburg Times/AP
A drill eats pasta that was stuffed inside a pumpkin at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich. Carlos Osorio/AP
A wolf explores a Halloween pumpkin at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Ted S. Warren/AP
Orangutan Zora snacks on a pumpkin at the zoo in Hanover, Germany, on Oct. 7. The gourd was stuffed with goodies such as honey, grains, and parsley. Jochen Luebke/Newscom
Five-month-old baby leopard Kian guards a Halloween pumpkin filled with beef at the zoo in Hanover, Germany. Holger Hollemann/Newscom/FILE
Charly, a polar bear, chews on a jack-o-lantern at SeaWorld San Diego's Wild Arctic attraction. The 11-foot bear shredded the pumpkin in seconds, according to keepers. Mike Aguilera/SeaWorld San Diego/AP/FILE
Talluah, a chimpanzee, plays with a ghost costume during the San Francisco Zoo's 'Boo at the Zoo' Halloween celebration. Russel A. Daniels/AP/FILE
A river otter at Sea World San Diego holds his own 'otter-sized' jack o'lantern. Instead of candy, Halloween treats for the otters consist of shrimp and capelin.
A Chimpanzee licks gelatin off a pumpkin at the San Francisco Zoo. George Nikitin/San Francisco Zoo/AP/FILE
A young boy dressed in a Halloween costume gestures to a walrus as it comes close to the glass, which has been decorated for the holiday at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Wash. Janet Jensen/The News Tribune/AP/FILE
Hippos Mimi (l.) and Carlo approach a carved pumpkin, which was fed to them as a Halloween treat at Rome's Bioparco Zoo in Italy. Rome Bioparco Zoo/AP/FILE
Two ring-tailed lemurs play with a Halloween pumpkin at the Tropical Aquarium in the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany. Uwe Wilkens/Newscom/FILE
A python slithers through a jack-o-lantern at the Bronx Zoo in New York. Julie Larsen Maher/Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo/UPI/Newscom/FILE
A King Vulture investigates a pumpkin at the Bronx Zoo in New York. Julie Larsen Maher/Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo/UPI/Newscom/FILE
A tarantula crawls on a Halloween pumpkin in the Tropical Aquarium in Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany. Uwe Wilkens/Newscom/FILE
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