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The Tampa Tribune’s food writer since 2005, Jeff Houck covers the way people live through their food. He also hosts the Table Conversations food podcast and believes that everything crunchy is good.

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And Now For Your Easter Dining Pleasure…

Posted Apr 14, 2006 by Jeff Houck

Updated Apr 14, 2006 at 01:32 PM

...photos of orangutans eating hard-boiled eggs at the Lowry Park Zoo:

They do this every year at the zoo right before Easter. Dee Dee is the one pictured above. The top two photos are of the dominant male, Rango.

Rachel Nelson, the P.R. director at the zoo, writes:

The primate keepers hide about 2 dozen hard-boiled eggs, along with a few “peeps” and some of their regular diet (produce). Most of the orangs (all but the baby) go for the eggs right away. They usually pop the whole egg into their mouths and chew, then spit the colored shell back out.  (We use non-toxic dye, of course.) At one point this morning, Rango had 5 eggs in his mouth at one time – right about the time of the earlier photo I sent. Then he spit them back out and played with them for a while.  All the eggs are gone at this point, but Easter baskets, bonnets and some toys remain. Like children, some like the “packaging” better than what’s inside.