Halloween’s just around the corner and many of you will spend this week carving your pumpkin and adding finishing touches to your costume.
But if you’re needing a break from festive preparations, or a Monday lift, here’s 13 pictures of animals who look just too adorable as they play with pumpkins.
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Casper the barn owl looks into his festive lantern.
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A black and white ruffed lemur in its enclosure investigates a pumpkin carved with creepy faces and smeared inside with speciality organic peanut spread at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park near Ashford, Kent.
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Animal Keeper Ben Houston from Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling tempts some inquisitive giraffes will a pumpkin full of animal treats.
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Meerkats duck and dive through branches and their carved-faced-friend.
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Harry the otter enjoys a Halloween treat at Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park goes for a swim with his pumpkin.
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Rubi, a three-month-old Asian lion cub and her mother look as if they are ready to pounce.
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Karis, an 8 week old lion cub with two pumpkins as she explores the Halloween treats put in her enclosure by staff at Blair Drummond Safari Park.
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Marty, the male amur tiger Highland Wildlife Park, tucks into his halloween treat.
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Loki the 10-month-old bear cub has a snack at Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park.
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Gareth Calvert and Jamie Oliver carve faces on pumpkins underwater, to help launch the Lost Souls Halloween special at the Sea Life London Aquarium.
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This meerkat at Edinburgh Zoo looks chuffed with its new sitting place.
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A lion tries to eat one of their Halloween treats in the enclosure at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling.
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This last one is just too cute.