Visit Animals at Zoo

Nine-year-old bull elephant Assam makes its first steps in Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden on October 30, 2009 as the 3-ton animal is let out to the open-air outlet today by local tenders. The new resident of the zoo arrived on Wednesday from Bellewaerde Park of Belgian Ieper Zoo after a 21-hour trip by special shipment.


Nine-year-old bull elephant Assam receives an apple in Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden on October 30, 2009 as the 3-tonne animal is let out to the open-air outlet today by local tenders. The new resident of the zoo arrived on Wednesday from Bellewaerde Park of Belgian Ieper Zoo after a 21-hour trip by special shipment.



Whirl, a two-year-old-Amur tiger, plays with a pumpkin at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois October 28, 2009. Zookeepers fed pumpkins to the zoo's lions, tigers, bears and gorillas, in honor of the upcoming October 31 Halloween holiday.



In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a snow leopard plays with a pumpkin placed in its habitat as part of an animal enrichment activity at New York City's Central Park Zoo, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. Snow leopards are native to the mountainous regions of Central Asia.



Josefa, a 37-year-old female polar bear, licks frozen fishes given to her as a birthday treat at her enclosure in the Buenos Aires Zoo October 30, 2009.



A 22-day-old lion cub growls at a man at the zoo in Russia's southern city of Stavropol October 30, 2009.



Nine-year-old bull elephant Assam makes its first steps at Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden on October 30, 2009 as the 3-ton animal is let out to the open-air outlet today by local tenders. The new resident of the zoo arrived on October 28 from the Bellewaerde Park of the Belgian Ieper Zoo after a 21-hour trip in a special container.



Four month old elephant "Rani" and her mother "Thura" are pictured in Hagenbeck's zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009.



An elephant named Kamraithong, age 5, sprays water on a giant Krathong as a symbolic apology to the goddess of the river during a news conference at the Dusit zoo in Bangkok October 30, 2009. The festival Loy Krathong falls on November 2.


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