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With days to go until the Oct. 31 celebration
when children knock on their neighbors' doors asking "Trick or
Treat?", keepers at the London park got into the spooky spirit
by preparing fiendish surprises for the animals.
Giraffes Maggie, Mollie and Ellie found leaves in cut-out
pumpkins for their breakfast, while the zoo's Bolivian
black-capped squirrel monkeys played with small pumpkins
dangling from a rope.
Nearby Western-lowland gorillas woke up to and inspected a
display of carved out pumpkins, including one depicting the face
of U.S. President Donald Trump.
"A standard tradition is to let the animals enjoy a bit of
Halloween," Daniel Simmonds, head of primates at London Zoo,
said.
"The gorillas have got pumpkins to enjoy. Now, obviously (they
are) not part of that standard (gorilla) diet so the pumpkins
are actually hollowed out and we put some much healthier treats
inside ... encouraging them to go over and have a look."
(Reporting By Holta Celmeta; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian)
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