Hello Halloween 2011

Pirates from Knoxville love it...

Photo: Jim Schulz

And Asha, an Asian elephant at the Oklahoma City Zoo, with her 6 months old daughter Malee too...Halloween is smashing time...


Ghosts can be seen everywhere...

African lions Isis, right, and Zenda eye a rope of pumpkins in their enclosure at Brookfield Zoo...

Lion mother Binta (L) and her babies Joco and Zari inspect a jack-o-lantern filled with pieces of meat on Oct. 27, 2011 at the zoo in Hanover, central Germany.

Curious meerkats swarm around a pumpkin
as part of an enrichment program at the Brookfield Zoo.

Here courageous meerkats mob a pumpkin spiced up with meal worms placed in their exhibit by San Diego Zoo Safari Park keepers.

A meerkat climbs out of a carved pumpkin on Oct. 27, 2011 at the zoo in Hanover...

This photo taken Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011 and provided by the Chicago Zoological Society, shows a pair of African wild dogs enjoying Halloween treats at Brookfield Zoo.

Photo: Jim Schulz

A kangaroo checks out a pumpkin - also at the Brookfield Zoo.

A red river hog sniffs a pumpkin at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The keepers like to keep the animals happy by putting some greens in the pumpkins.

Tony Franceschiello, the senior keeper at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, says bat-eared foxes get pumpkins that have mice and crickets crawling throughout.

A wolf takes a look at a Halloween pumpkin, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle - I wonder if there is a chicken inside...


In this case it's a Bronx Zoo snake....))

Photo: Toby Melville/Reuters

Much to my surprise, even fish celebrate Halloween...
Divers Gareth Calvert (L) and Jamie Oliver pose with pumpkins after a race to carve them underwater in the Ocean Reef Halloween display at the London Aquarium October 27, 2010.

Photo source

And what about the bigger bears?

Charly, a polar bear from SeaWorld San Diego's Wild Arctic Exhibit, plays with a carved pumpkin just in time for Halloween. However, he will not actually eat it.

This is an older Halloween pic from San Diego Zoo, I bet it was Charly again,
and that pumpkin looked quite delicious...

Photo credits: Doug Lindstrand
Posted by Jordan Carlton Schaul on facebook

So why not joining in and enjoying yourself tonight...?!

Sources:
- Zoo Animals Pig Out On Pumpkins At Halloween/Huffington Post 30.10.2011
- Halloween comes early for Detroit zoo animals/yahoo news October 2011 & a video
- Unlikely Playmates:Pumpkins and Animals for Halloween 2011 /ibtimes 31.10.2011
- Zoo animals have a smashing pumpkins good-time/msn 25.10.2011

Related:
- Halloween 2010, Halloween 2009, Halloween 2008

Pumpkin Connection...Happy Halloween

Photo: Beatrix Koehler

It's Halloween Time ...

Photo: Beatrix Koehler

...in Munich

Photo: Beatrix Koehler

Lots of surprises and fun for Yoghi and Giovanna...

Photo: Christina M.

But what about Berlin...?

Photo:Christina M.

Also for the polar bears in Berlin?

Photo:ChristinaM

Hmm, I don't see any pumpkins but...

Knut seems to think that the time is appropriate for scaring Katie a little bit off...
But now let's look around...

No, idea where that came from...

Photo:John Gress/Reuters

And that is Axhi, a 700lb 14-year-old brown bear,
who eats a 300lb pumpkin at Brookfield Zoo on October 28, 2009....

Photo: Sang Tan / AP

Of all the places to put a pumpkin patch:
You can't blame Rubi for hissing, seeing as she has to wade through an algae bloom to pick her gourd at the London Zoo.

Photo: Matt Cardy / Getty Images

Meerkat Manor of Horrors:
Zombie meerkats feed on pumpkin brains at Bristol Zoo Gardens in England.

Photo: George Nikitin/AP

A chimp from San Francisco Zoo licks gelatin off a pumpkin, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009.


So just enjoy the night!

Photo credits:
- Happiest Halloween /Livejournal 31.10.2009 with even more 2009 pics by tgerpal
- Happy Halloween aus Hellabrunn/ChristinaM with photos of Beatrix Koehler 29.10.2010
- Happy Halloween- Zoo Berlin/ChristinaM 31.10.2010

Related postings:
- Trick or Treat...? Happy Halloween...!/31.10.2009