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Animals have fun with pumpkins for the Halloween season.

These animals are enjoying the Halloween season, coaxed by pumpkins offered as treats. In this photo taken Oct. 20, 2011 provided by the Chicago Zoological Society, Newt, a Rodriguez fruit bat, is given a pumpkin.

A drill eats pasta that was stuffed inside a pumpkin at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich., Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011.

Everybody loves meerkats! In this photo taken Oct. 20, 2011 provided by the Chicago Zoological Society, curious meerkats swarm around a pumpkin for a better look.

A polar bear nibbles on a pumpkin at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich., Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011.

A polar bear pokes its head underwater as a pumpkin floats nearby at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich., Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011.

In this photo taken Oct. 20, 2011 provided by the Chicago Zoological Society, African lions Isis, right, and Zenda, eye a rope of pumpkins in their enclosure as part of an enrichment program at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill., in preparation for zoo's weekend Halloween events, Creatures of the Night and Boo! at the Zoo.

Asha, an Asian elephant at the Oklahoma City Zoo, eats a pumpkin as a Halloween treat at the zoo in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011.

Six-month-old Asian elephant Malee plays with a pumpkin, a special treat for upcoming Halloween, at the Oklahoma City Zoo in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011.

In this photo taken Oct. 20, 2011 provided by the Chicago Zoological Society, a kangaroo hops on over to a pumpkin to check it out.

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These animals are enjoying the Halloween season, coaxed by pumpkins offered as treats. In this photo taken Oct. 20, 2011 provided by the Chicago Zoological Society, Newt, a Rodriguez fruit bat, is given a pumpkin.

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