8 Photos Of Animals Having Christmas At The Zoo

The London Zoo celebrated the holiday with stockings for monkeys and presents for all.

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Keepers at the London Zoo gave the animals treats and presents for a photo opportunity Wednesday. These squirrel monkeys are enjoying their stocking-stuffers.

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Penguins get a tree trimmed with fish.

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Do not mess with Lucifer the lion or his Christmas present.

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Lucifer throws dignity to the winds.

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A lioness is marginally more polite.

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Christmas at the London Zoo is apparently a longstanding tradition; here, hostesses celebrate with a goat in 1955.