Keepers this week tried a new cat toy out on the Oregon Zoo’s aging Amur tiger Mikhail, and the result was a splashy swim on a warm summer day.

On Tuesday, zookeepers tossed a 3-foot-long green plastic cylinder into the tiger pool from a rooftop overlooking Mikhail’s habitat. The 400-pound tiger bounded right in after it, splashing playfully and batting the toy around.

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