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A French bulldog adopts wild boar piglets, a fingernail-size chameleon, frill-necked lizards and more.

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Feb. 15, 2012

A French bulldog named Baby, left, attends the feeding of wild boar piglets at the Lehnitz animal sanctuary outside Berlin. Workers at the animal sanctuary say Baby took straight to the wild boar piglets when they were brought in at just 3 days old and shivering from cold. Sanctuary worker Norbert Damm said as soon as the furry striped piglets were brought in, Baby ran over and started snuggling them and keeping them warm, even though the piglets were already about her size. He says the piglets' mother probably was killed by a hunter.

Michael Sohn / AP

Feb. 14, 2012

Michelle Paulin and Storm, a Dogue de Bordeaux, are pictured in the judging ring during the 136th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show held at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Timothy A. Clary / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 20, 2012

A Rothschild giraffe takes care of its 11-day-old baby girl named Apolena at the Prague Zoo.

Petr Josek / Reuters

Feb. 15, 2012

Lions nuzzle up to each other at the National Zoo on an unseasonably warm day in Washington.

Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

Feb. 15, 2012

A horse carriage rides through heavy snowfall in Krakow, Poland.

Agencja Gazeta / Reuters

Feb. 15, 2012

A 2-week-old frill-necked lizard rears up in defense at Wild Life Sydney in Darling Harbor in Sydney.

Rob Griffith / AP

March 16, 2007

A file picture shows a “Brookesia micra” chameleon on the fingernail of a researcher’s hand in Madagascar. The chameleon, believed to be the world’s smallest, has been discovered on the island of Madagascar, German and American biologists announced on Feb. 16. The lizard, with a 16-millimeter-long body, measures 29 millimeters long with its tail fully extended.

Frank Glaw / Reuters

Feb. 15, 2012

A Cayenne stubfoot toad sits on a leaf in a terrarium at a zoo in Zurich.

Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters

Feb. 20, 2012

A 10-day-old crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata) cub walks at the exotic animals department of the Royev Ruchey Zoo on the suburbs of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

Feb. 14, 2012

A horse neighs while standing in the snow on the way to Aralar Sanctuary near Baraibar, Spain, in sub-zero temperatures.

Alvaro Barrientos / AP

Feb. 2, 2012

Emin Ljutic watches one of his bears drink homemade rosehip juice inside his home in the Bosnian village of Bistrica. Ljutic has given his house over to bears, more specifically to two 6-year-old brown bears he treats as his children, which the government wants put down. A fenced-off area next to the house allows the bears — Laka and Gvido — to roam outside, and he has breached the wall in several places to give them free access to the house. Ljutic himself has moved into a container, set up in the courtyard where he lives, surrounded by some 50 dogs.

Evlis Barukcic / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 18, 2012

Huan-Huan, right, a female panda, and male panda Yuan-Zi, the two giant pandas that recently arrived to France from China, are pictured at the Beauval Zoo in Saint-Aignan, France.

Alain Jocard / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 14, 2012

A rat named Scrumptious Galore sits on the shoulder of its owner, Karl, while out for a walk in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Andy Clark / Reuters

Feb. 21, 2012

Tourists riding on elephants photograph a rhinoceros with her calf at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India. Shoot-on-sight orders have now reduced poaching in the park, with nine recorded rhino poaching incidents in 2010, down from 48 in 1992.

/ AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 16, 2012

Female chimpanzee Judy is seen in a cage in the Great Ape Project Parana Sanctuary in Curitiba, Brazil. Judy and another female chimpanzee, Gena, were transferred to the GAP Parana Sanctuary after they were found living in poor conditions in a small cage in a private zoo in Israel, according to GAP.

Rodolfo Buhrer / Reuters

Jan. 31, 2012

A squirrel curls up to protect itself from freezing daytime temperatures in Warsaw's central Lazienki Park. Fruit seeds stored away by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago and found in Siberian permafrost have been regenerated into full-flowering plants by scientists in Russia, a new study revealed on Monday. The latest findings could be a landmark in research of ancient biological material and the race to potentially revive other species, including some that are extinct.

Janek Skarzynski / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 14, 2012

Camels ridden by mechanical robots race to the finish at the 12th International Camel Race in Kebd, Kuwait. According to organizers, camel jockeys were replaced by mechanical robots since 2005 because of international pressure. Camel owners had been found to be involved in human trafficking, buying children from countries such as Pakistan and India for their smaller frame and lighter weight to ride on the camels. Since the ban on human jockeys, owners have continued to race their camels, controlling the whip with their remotes as they follow the race trackside in their jeeps. A total of about 500 participants took part in the five-day tournament to compete for 65 Toyota Land Cruisers in addition to cash prizes.

Stephanie McGehee / Reuters

Feb. 15, 2012

A snow-covered Bactrian camel stands in an enclosure at the zoo in Zurich.

Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters

Feb. 18, 2012

Dalmatian pelicans are seen in the water of the Caspian Sea port in Makhachkala, Russia. Hundreds of Dalmatian pelicans migrated to Makhachkala, which could be caused by abnormal frosts and the icing of water at the nature reserve, the place of their natural disposition, according to local media.

Sergei Rasulov / Reuters

Feb. 18, 2012

A pair of red-crowned cranes do a courtship dance in the village of Tsurui in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. Some 400 red-crowned cranes have been observed at the village over the winter, having migrated from eastern Russia, northeastern China and eastern Mongolia.

Takashi Noguchi / AFP/Getty Images

Workers transfer two giant saltwater crocodiles to a crocodile farm and conservatory in Palawan, <span>Philippines</span>. The two crocodiles were caught in Rio Tuba following a reported attack on humans. Local officials of the crocodile farm plan to name the 16-foot male crocodile 'Valentino' and the 11-foot female crocodile 'Valentina,' as they were caught on Valentine's Day, local media reported.

Feb. 14, 2012

Workers transfer two giant saltwater crocodiles to a crocodile farm and conservatory in Palawan, Philippines. The two crocodiles were caught in Rio Tuba following a reported attack on humans. Local officials of the crocodile farm plan to name the 16-foot male crocodile "Valentino" and the 11-foot female crocodile "Valentina," as they were caught on Valentine's Day, local media reported.

/ Reuters

Feb. 20, 2012

A dog named Ben wears a "King Frog" costume as he attends the traditional Rose Monday Carnival parade in Mainz, Germany. The Rose Monday parades in Cologne, Mainz and Duesseldorf are the highlight of the German Carnival season.

Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters

Feb. 14, 2012

Neapolitan mastiff Trinity, of Ontario, Canada, waits for judging at the 136th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York.

Craig Ruttle / AP

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