The combo of pictures taken on October 28, 2008 shows young elephant Tarak eating a cake he was given for his third birthday at the zoo in Hanover, nothern Germany. The cake weighed 30 kilograms and consisted of rice, carrots and radish. Three-year old Tarak has a weight of about 1,000 kilograms and is 1,65 meters tall. Getty Images logo Getty Images 13 months ago

The combo of pictures taken on October 28, 2008 shows young elephant Tarak eating a cake he was given for his third birthday at the zoo in Hanover, nothern Germany. The cake weighed 30 kilograms and consisted of rice, carrots and radish. Three-year old Tarak has a weight of about 1,000 kilograms and is 1,65 meters tall.

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