Throwing Beans at a Gorilla.

By Alex in Animals & Pets, Pictures on Feb 5, 2007 at 11:06 am

This week’s Cellar Image of the Day and Neatorama’s pick of the week is this photo of a gorilla being taunted by beans!

What? You can’t feed the animals at the zoo? Not in Japan! Well, at least for the bean-scattering ceremony on February 3 you can. On that day, zookeepers and visitors thew threw beans at a gorilla as part of a traditional ceremony to celebrate the coming of spring and to dispel bad luck!

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  1. Mattymatt
    Feb 5th, 2007 at 1:31 pm

    Is this a cruel tradition, or just a colorful one? The gorilla probably doesn’t know it’s being taunted, after all.

  2. Rence
    Feb 5th, 2007 at 2:44 pm

    From the photo it looks as if the people are in the cage and crying to the gorilla to be released!

  3. Morgan Davis
    Feb 5th, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    You mispelled “threw”

  4. Alex
    Feb 5th, 2007 at 10:12 pm

    Thanks Morgan Davis – it’s fixed now.


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