Zookeepers make special festival mooncakes for animals

Zookeepers made special mooncakes with ingredients like soybeans, cereals, rice and grass for their zoo animals to celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.

The clip, shot in Nanning City in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on September 20, shows a Bengal tiger enjoying a tiger-shaped mooncake, while two keepers cutting and feeding the special mooncakes to hornbills.

According to a keeper named Qing Jieyuan, they used jelly cups and a piece of lotus root as moulds to make the animals’ food into mooncake shape.