I have never totally understood the appeal of Woodland Park Zoo’s Pumpkin Bash, the point of which is to give pumpkins to all manner of animals and watch what they do with them, in the spirit of fall or Halloween or just general pumpkin abuse. (Actually, I think I’m just grumpy because they don’t give the monkeys carving tools…watching a Tamarin carve a pumpkin would probably be the funniest thing ever.)

But this year’s pumpkin bash was this past weekend, and I might have been converted for next year by this little video of hippos bobbing for pumpkins. They’re no monkeys making jack-o-lanterns, but I’ll take what I can get.