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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Drum-beating 'monkeys' and dancing 'parrots' celebrate 100th anniversary of Mexico City zoo

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Hundreds of people celebrated the 100th anniversary of Mexico City's Chapultepec Zoo Thursday with a costume parade that featured a marching band of lions and children dressed as birds or butterflies.

Other revelers dressed up as dancing parrots, acrobatic zebras and there were even drum-beating monkeys at the Chapultepec zoo, which was founded in 1923 in a city park of the same name.

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