PHOTO: Brown Bear Meets a Pink Watermelon

It may be dreary and gray in the still-winter northern hemisphere, but down in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, it’s hot, hot, hot! What’s a zoo bear to do besides chomp down on some frozen watermelon, and look like he’s enjoying it in slow motion, with utter pleasure?

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