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Pictures: Party animals celebrate Christmas

Christmas at Port Lympne
Christmas at Port Lympne

This tiger thinks Christmas in Kent is just grrr-eat.

Ingrid the playful Siberian was snapped unwrapping her prezzies at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park near Folkestone.

And it looks like her presents - delivered in the run-up to Christmas - were a roaring success.

Christmas at Port Lympne
Christmas at Port Lympne

Other animals pictured getting their gifts this Christmas include macaques and the park's the family of Western lowland gorillas

The park's animal director Adrian Harland said: "As well as being a festive treat, the boxes were a great way of providing enrichment for the animals.

"Enrichment improves the lives of animals by encouraging them to exhibit natural behaviours such as foraging, problem solving and play.

"The gorillas’ boxes were filled with tasty mixed seeds to test their ingenuity, while the tigers enjoyed exhibiting their predatory instincts pouncing on and shredding theirs."

Port Lympne’s family of endangered Siberian tigers has recently expanded.

Male Tugar and his mate Ingrid were joined in this summer by their second litter of cubs.

The two sisters named Roza and Zaria are now five months old and are celebrating their first Christmas.

Christmas at Port Lympne
Christmas at Port Lympne

Adrian Harland added: "Christmas is traditionally a landmark in the year when families come together and celebrate.

"We celebrate every birth at the park as a step towards saving these species.

"But we also hope that people will consider that we face the very real possibility that ten or twenty Christmases from now, iconic animals like these tigers and gorillas might no longer exist in the wild."

Did you give your pets a prezzie this Christmas? Send your snaps in tomultimediadesk@thekmgroup.co.uk.

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