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Gertrude, a 26-year-old hippopotamus at the Woodland Park Zoo, makes a mouthful of one of the pumpkins donated annually to the zoo the day after Halloween by two local supermarkets. An additional 15 pumpkins were fed to the elephants. (Richard S. Heyza / The Seattle Times, 1989)

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Gertrude, a 26-year-old hippopotamus at the Woodland Park Zoo, makes a mouthful of one of the pumpkins donated annually to the zoo the day after Halloween by two local supermarkets. An additional 15 pumpkins were fed to the elephants. (Richard S. Heyza / The Seattle Times, 1989)