Often while searching through the AP photo archive for serious news items, we'll stumble across some unrelated but amazing images. When the Bush administration was considering what it would do with the endangered species list, we were looking for photos of certain animals and came across a polar bear celebrating its birthday.
Then it occurred to us that there could be many photos of animals celebrating birthdays. Well. There are! Check out these adorable Zoo animals on their Birthdays eating yummy cake or cake substitute made to their particular tastes.
Giant panda Hua Mei eats a cake made for the animal's third birthday on Aug. 21, 2002, at the San Diego Zoo.
Giant panda Hua Mei eats a cake made for the animal's third birthday on Aug. 21, 2002, at the San Diego Zoo.
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A Hippopotamus named Bulette "Meatball" eats a bunch of flowers at the Berlin Zoo on April 3, 2002.
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Walrus Antje eats a fancy birthday cake made of various seafood on May 25, 2001 in the Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany.
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King George, a rare King Cheetah devours his birthday cake, on Oct. 14, 2007 at the Miami Metrozoo.
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Pebbles celebrates its 28th birthday on January 1,1998 and is believed to be the oldest sea-lion living in a park.
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Giant panda "Xin Xin" eats cake during its birthday party at Shanxi Wild Animal Rescue and Breeding Center in Xi'an, capital city of China's Shanxi Province, on Aug. 6, 2006.
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Polar bear Knut nibbles on a wooden 'candle' on his birthday cake in the Berlin zoo, Berlin, Germany, on Dec. 5, 2007.
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Golden monkey Zhou Zhou is ready to have its birthday cake at the Jinan Zoo in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong province, on April 11, 2006.
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Young elephant Abu slips and falls when stepping on his early birthday cake made of fruits, vegetables and hay on April 24, 2002 at the Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna.
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Dulce, a one-year-old white tiger bites a birthday cake of pumpkin filled with meat at Buenos Aires's Zoo, on June 5, 2003.
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Orangutan Charly eats his birthday cake at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, on Dec. 6, 2007.
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