Animals at Harbin zoo feast on mooncakes to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival

Updated: Sep 27, 2023 By ZHOU HUIYING chinadaily.com.cn Print

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A breeder feeds a deer mooncakes made of coarse cereals at Harbin Northeast Forest Zoo in Heilongjiang province to welcome the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival. [Photo by Liu Xiaomi/For chinadaily.com.cn]

To welcome the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on Friday this year, breeders at Harbin Northeast Forest Zoo in Heilongjiang province prepared a festival feast, complete with mooncakes, for the animals at the zoo.

Tourists came to the zoo to watch the animals eat and celebrate the traditional festival together.

Over 300 birds, including peacocks, guinea fowls and doves share a four-square-meter mooncake made of corn, sorghum and peanut, to welcome the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival. [Photo by Liu Xiaomi/For chinadaily.com.cn]

Ring-tailed lemurs eat colorful mooncakes made of various fruits and vegetables at Harbin Northeast Forest Zoo in Heilongjiang province to welcome the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival. [Photo by Liu Xiaomi/For chinadaily.com.cn]

A chimpanzee enjoys a mooncake at Harbin Northeast Forest Zoo in Heilongjiang province. [Photo by Liu Xiaomi/For chinadaily.com.cn]

A baboon enjoys a mooncake at Harbin Northeast Forest Zoo in Heilongjiang province. [Photo by Liu Xiaomi/For chinadaily.com.cn]

Brown bears munch on huge mooncakes made of various fruits and vegetables at Harbin Northeast Forest Zoo in Heilongjiang province to welcome the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival. [Photo by Liu Xiaomi/For chinadaily.com.cn]

A tiger enjoys a mooncake made of meat at Harbin Northeast Forest Zoo in Heilongjiang province. [Photo by Liu Xiaomi/For chinadaily.com.cn]

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