Strangest animal costumes at Rio’s Carnival 2014

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Written by Valentina Romano

Even this year the celebrations for the  Carnival held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, have captured the attention of the entire world. Colourful decorations, eccentric and extravagant outfits, and never lasting dances, covered the whole city, from the 22nd of February, until the 8th of March.

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The first ever carnival festivity that Brazil organised, took place in Rio de Janeiro, where the “préstitos” (musicians) were going around the streets singing and playing instruments, inciting people to join in the ‘chaotic’ celebrations. All this took place in 1641, when John IV of Portugal was crowned King and parties were celebrating in Rio’s public streets.

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Although this year’s Carnival recently ended, it left us with some pretty amazing pictures, of both people’s and animals’ outfits. Indeed, one strange aspect about the Brazilian Carnival, is that the individuals that join in the celebrations, bring their pet animals to have fun with them! More important, all the dogs, cats and in general animals that take part in the parades, are all decorated with incredible outfits! In the following pictures, you will be able to see how happy the animals are about all the attention that their owners and people give to them!

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From superman-pug, to bee-sausage dog, The Golden Scope researched for you the strangest and funniest pictures capturing animals dressed up for the Carnival.

In other words, if you didn’t have the chance to experience the amazing Brazilian Carnival in Rio on first hand, you can still have a glimpse of it through the following photos.

THE COSTUMES

The buzzing bee
The buzzing bee
Sir cat
Sir cat
Cat-fairy
Cat-fairy
Spiderdog
Spiderdog
Bono from the U2?
Bono from the U2?
The motorbikers
Motorbikers
The peacock
The peacock-dog
Wonderdog
Wonderdog
Supepug
Superpug
Another wonderdog
Another wonderdog

Finally, last, but not least, the chicken bomb…

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