A macaque at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Krasnoyarsk

Tasik, a 13-years-old male macaque, takes a pancake from an employee during celebration of Maslenitsa, or Pancake Week, at the Royev Ruchey zoo in a surburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, February 28, 2014. Maslenitsa is widely viewed as a pagan holiday marking the end of winter and is celebrated with pancake eating, while the Orthodox Church considers it as the week of feasting before Lent.  Source: Reuters / Ilya Naymushin

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