Polar bear eats big rice cake for Girls' Day festival at zoo

Polar bear eats big rice cake for Girls' Day festival at zoo

Female polar bear Maruru eats a large "hishimochi" rhombic rice cake at the Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens in the southwestern Japan city on March 3, 2015. Rhombus-shaped rice cakes are symbolic sweets offered for the annual "Hina-matsuri" or Girls' Day traditional festival celebrated across Japan. ==Kyodo

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