Not So Creepy Halloween: How Animals Deal With Pumpkins

As Halloween is being celebrated in most countries, staff in zoos around the world have decided to please their fosterlings and treat them to the most autumnal of all possible delicacies - a pumpkin.

Explore Sputnik's photo gallery to find out how lemurs, tigers, meerkats and even penguins are dealing with pumpkins. 

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A lemur feeds on vegetables hidden in carved out Halloween pumpkins at the Dierenpark zoo in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.

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Achilles and Karis, Sumatran tigers, eat pumpkins at a Halloween event at ZSL London Zoo, London, Britain.

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A group of Humboldt Penguins and two carved pumpkins at a Halloween event at ZSL London Zoo, London, Britain.

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Meerkats gather around a pumpkin at the zoo in Hannover, Germany.

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A newly born eastern black rhino plays with a pumpkin in its enclosure at the zoo in Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic.

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A group of squirrel monkeys play with a carved pumpkin at a Halloween event at ZSL London Zoo, London, Britain.

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Himalayan brown bear cub eats a pumpkin in the open-air cage of the Primorsky safari park, Russia.