Alpaca bites into big rice cake at eastern Japan zoo

Alpaca bites into big rice cake at eastern Japan zoo

A male alpaca bites into a big "kashiwa-mochi" rice cake wrapped in oak leaves at the Nasu Animal Kingdom in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on May 2, 2015. Kashiwa-mochi is a traditional Japanese rice cake eaten on Children's Day, May 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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