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A devious lemur at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg munches on a pumpkin. ZUMAPRESS.com
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A three-day-old baby Sumatran Orangutan is held by her mother in their enclosure at Chester Zoo, northern England. REUTERS
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Jimma, a 27-year-old male rhino, enjoys a Halloween pumpkin treat at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. AP
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A cotton-top tamarin eats a grasshopper in its enclosure in the zoo Duisburg, western Germany. AFP/Getty Images
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Grace, a search dog with the British army, wears a Dickin Medal, Britain’s highest award for bravery by animals — which was posthumously awarded to Theo, a bomb-sniffing army dog, following a special ceremony held at Wellington Barracks, in central London. AP
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Mitik, an orphaned walrus calf rescued off the coast of Barrow, Alaska, continues to recover at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium. ZUMAPRESS.com
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Candy, a two-month-old Toque macaque, looks around while being held in his mother’s arms at the zoo in Berlin. AFP/Getty Images
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An Afghan boy plays with a sheep at an animal market on the outskirts of Kabul. AFP/Getty Images
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Almaz, a three-year-old male white African lion, plays with a pumpkin inside his enclosure during the Zoo Halloween Weekend event at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. REUTERS
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Canadian tourists have their car raided by Baboons on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. AP