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"Is this all you could manage?" -

Kimani, an endangered female western lowland gorilla, looks bored with streamers put in her pen to celebrate her first birthday at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Massachusetts.

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A special cake for a special turtle -

Two-headed Greek turtle Janus, named after the Roman god with two heads, celebrates its 10th birthday with a cake made in its image.

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Just a taste… -

Berlin Zoo's gorilla Fatou has a little taste of birthday cake, showing remarkable restraint...

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Oh, who is she kidding? -

We can relate!

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When your parents are too cheap to celebrate separately -

Giant panda cubs born in 2018 enjoy a group birthday celebration at Shenshuping panda base in China.

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Tearing into it -

Giant panda Xing Ya tears into his ice cake celebrating his fourth birthday at the Ouwehands Zoo in the Netherlands.

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Interspecies party -

Children and dogs, both in masks, celebrate the second birthday of a Chihuahua named Barbie.

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Bubble birthday -

Leon the elephant celebrated his 19th birthday at a zoo in Warsaw, Poland with a dreamy display of bubbles.

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She's waited all year for this -

Veteran orangutan Nenette thoroughly enjoys her cake as she celebrates her 50th birthday at the zoo of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, France.

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More gifts than most people get -

Nenette was also treated to a load of gifts that would make anyone envious.

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Ice cake glee -

Giant male panda Ru Yi received a stunning ice cake for his birthday at the Moscow Zoo.

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Birthday blues -

Chimpanzee Wanxing looks unamused at a birthday cake at a wild animal garden in Hefei, China.

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Cake to the basics -

Natalia, one of three rare Amur tiger cubs, is rightfully suspicious of this birthday enrichment cake, adorned with dead fowl, at the Highland Wildlife Park in Scotland.

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Trunk loads -

Noor Jahan the elephant enjoys a cake on her 14th birthday at the Zoological Garden in Karachi, Pakistan.

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Edible soccer balls -

Panda Yuan Zhou smells his birthday cake made of melons and carrots, celebrating his eighth birthday at Safari Park in Shenzhen, China.

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She loaves cake -

A female hippopotamus named Mali dives into a cake with delicious fruit and several loaves of bread to celebrate her 50th birthday at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Have your cake and eat its fruit -

Iqhwa, her mother Tonga, and her half-sister Mongu eat her birthday cake made of fruit and vegetables at the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria.

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The first encounter with fire -

A one-month-old female white tiger cub looks wide-eyed at her birthday cake candles at the Mines Wonderland Animal Kingdom in Kuala Lumpur.

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A royal affair -

In 2017, Basi was the oldest captive giant panda alive, this in Fuzhou, China. This was her last birthday celebration, as she only made it to age 37.

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Ice cake in the tropics -

Inuka, the first polar bear born in the tropics, takes the first lick of an ice cake for its 25th birthday at the Singapore Zoo.

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Birthday hat for a birthday cat -

Tama, a cat stationmaster of a railway station in Japan, looks ready to pounce on a birthday cake made for her 16th birthday.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery -

Tuluba seems overjoyed at this cake made in his image to celebrate his third birthday at the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna. He can't read, of course, but they wish him "all the best."

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It's her birthday and she’ll cry if she wants to? -

Sumatran tiger Melati apparently doesn't want anyone to touch this present at the London Zoo.

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Not the most extravagant gift -

During its first birthday celebration at Tierpark Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, this polar bear prefers pylons to presents. It's like when the kid is more excited about the wrapping paper than the gift.

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Carrot for a candle -

One-year-old polar bear Anori gets a birthday cake, while her mother Vilma eats bread at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany.

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A logistical error -

To celebrate its 260th birthday, this Galapagos giant tortoise became a plate to hold its own birthday cake.

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Smells fishy -

Josefa was the only polar bear living in Argentina when she celebrated her 37th birthday with this decadent frozen fish dish.

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Gathering around the table -

Sophisticated ring-tailed lemurs gather around the birthday treat during celebrations at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland.

See also: Animals as you've never seen them before.

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