Halloween came early for London Zoo's Asiatic lions and meerkats, as they were given spooky treats to play with on Tuesday (October 29).
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00:00The pumpkins mostly don't have anything and we've put a little bit of spice, I think I've
00:13put a little bit of cumin in today and they seem to really enjoy that, otherwise we try
00:18to leave it as it is just so the cubs have got something they can really grip onto and
00:21play with.
00:22It's really good for their kind of learning, so it's really good for them to kind of get
00:26those hunting skills, they have something they can grip onto, they can learn to pounce,
00:30they learn how to kind of attack things and roll over, you can kind of see from the footage
00:34that they are grabbing them, throwing things, carrying them around, they're having a good
00:38time, they're playing, but play is how they learn those vital kind of adult skills as
00:42they get older.