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The Bronx Zoo's 'Boo at the Zoo'

by Evan Jacobs (Subscribe to Evan Jacobs's posts): Oct 28th 2009 3:00PM Filed Under: Exotic Pets

Evan Jacobs

If animals could speak, certainly they would ask to participate in Halloween. "We're already dressed up," they would say. "As animals."

Many zoos around the country have answered this hypothetical request by offering Halloween-themed exhibits and activities during the season. A partial list includes:

Of course, if your local zoo isn't on the list, just check out its Web site and see if it is participating in the festivities.

New York's Bronx Zoo has for the past decade participated in the hair-raising holiday with their Boo at the Zoo spooktacular. During the month of October, the zoo's staff scatters square bales of hay, corn husks, and pumpkins around the grounds, and garnishes all of it with fake spiders, plastic skulls, cobwebs, and other Halloweeny items.

This year, the zoo offers several activities for those who have the courage to go on a haunted hay ride, explore a scary safari, or see some animals having fun with pumpkins. So last weekend, I headed to the Bronx Zoo to face my fears and perhaps get my face painted.

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