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March 24, 2012
A hippopotamus opens its mouth as visitors feed him at Yangon Zoo in Burma.
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March 19, 2012
A Kenyan Wildlife Services veterinarian prepares to shoot a tranquilizer dart into an elephant at the Tsavo East National Park during the second phase of a collaring exercise funded by International Fund for Animal Welfare and the KWS in the wake of a significant increase in elephant killings for their prized tusks. Kenya's estimated population of 30,000 elephants has come under growing risk, as reported incidences of poaching from all over the country continue to mount despite governmental efforts supplemented by international wildlife agencies.
Tony Karumba
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March 19, 2012
A Kenya Wildlife Services member monitors from a helicopter the scene where an elephant sedated for collaring finally succumbed to the effects in the Tsavo East National Park during the second phase of a collaring exercise funded by International Fund for Animal Welfare and the KWS.
Tony Karumba
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March 19, 2012
A just-revived elephant that had been sedated for collaring tries to stand back up at the Tsavo East National Park during the second phase of a collaring exercise funded by International Fund for Animal Welfare and the KWS.
Tony Karumba
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March 19, 2012
A sedated elephant is processed and collared by experts at the Tsavo East National Park during the second phase of a collaring exercise funded by International Fund for Animal Welfare and the KWS in the wake of a dramatic increase in elephant killings for their prized tusks.
Tony Karumba
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March 20, 2012
An elephant takes a dust bath as he grazes on the lower levels of Mount Kenya, the second-highest peak in Africa at 17,057 feet, as forest fires burn on the slopes above. Fires that have been raging across Mount Kenya may have been set by poachers trying to create a diversion from their illegal attacks on animals, a wildlife official said Tuesday.
Ben Curtis
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AP
March 21, 2012
A visitor feeds an elephant a carrot at the Opel Zoo in Kronberg near Frankfurt, Germany. The zoo is constructing a new enclosure for its three elephants.
Arne Dedert
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March 22, 2012
A black rhinoceros grazes in a private game reserve north of Durban, South Africa. It is estimated that poachers killed a record of 448 rhinoceroses in South Africa last year and have already killed at least 80 this year. The horns are sent to China and Southeast Asia for use in traditional medicine.
Rogan Ward
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Reuters
March 20, 2012
Two-month-old Charlees, whose name is Hindi for Charlie, makes her public debut at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park after a rainstorm came through San Diego County this past weekend. The sunshine, combined with her first opportunity to explore the 40-acre Asian Savanna habitat, was a perfect mix for fun. She spent the morning running around meeting the rest of the park's seven-member greater one-horned rhino herd. Charlees is the 61st greater one-horned rhino born at the Safari Park since 1975, making the park the foremost breeding facility in the world for this species.
Ken Bohn
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March 25, 2012
A little black rhinoceros calf relaxes in the sand in Zoo Leipzig in central Germany.
Jens Meyer
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AP
March 22, 2012
A female Baringo giraffe calf born this month at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo stays close to her mother in the Carter Giraffe Building at the Bronx Zoo in New York. The calf will be making its debut in the zoo's African Plains in about a week.
Julie Larsen Maher
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March 25, 2012
A zebra relaxes on the back of an other zebra at Zoo Leipzig in central Germany.
Jens Meyer
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AP
March 26, 2012
Heart monitoring pads are applied to Dylan the chimpanzee while cardiologist Eric Stohr of Cardiff Metropolitan University carries out a cardio ultrasound examination at Chester Zoo in Liverpool, England. The tests are part of a international program looking into the heart conditions of great apes.
Phil Noble
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Reuters
March 26, 2012
A 19-year-old Japanese macaque named Monday scratches her eyes at the Awajishima Monkey Center in Sumoto, Japan. Monday suffers from an allergy to pollen from the cedar tree. Some 20 monkeys are suffering the effects of hay fever at this time of the year, with the typical symptoms being the same as with humans.
Buddhika Weerasinghe
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March 22, 2012
A goat looks out as it grazes on plants growing in Cheddar, England.
Matt Cardy
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March 26, 2012
Goats are displayed in the street of Brignoles, France, during a demonstration of shepherds to protest the reintroduction of wolves.
Boris Horvat
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March 22, 2012
Lions feed in an enclosure at a zoo in Yaduda, Jordan.
Ali Jarekji
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Reuters
March 23, 2012
A man holds up his Tibetan mastiff as they perform onstage during a dog beauty contest at an exhibition center in Shenyang, China. About 2,000 Tibetan mastiffs participated in the China Tibetan Mastiff Exhibition, local media reported.
Sheng Li
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Reuters
March 25, 2012
Sisters Maya, left, and Kona, boxers belonging to Colleen Daniels, enjoy the fourth annual Doggie Easter Egg Hunt at the Fort Walton Landing Park in Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
Devon Ravine
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AP
March 25, 2012
A puppy rides in a Volkswagen Beetle toy car during a mass in honor of Saint Lazaro in the indigenous community of Masaya, Nicaragua. Hundreds of devotees presented their sick animals to the Saint Lazaro, considered the patron saint of dogs.
Diana Ulloa
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Reuters
March 25, 2012
A parishioner holds her dogs during a mass in honor of Saint Lazaro in the indigenous community in Masaya, Nicaragua.
Oswaldo Rivas
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Reuters
March 25, 2012
Karen Quigley holds Elwood during the second annual Leprechaun Leap benefiting the South Jersey Cancer Fund in Brigantine, N.J.
Ben Fogletto
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AP
March 21, 2012
A pair of dogs watch Todd Masterton play a violin at Anne E. Moncure Elementary School as part of the week-long Pennies for a Piano fundraiser. The school is trying to raise $3,000 for a new piano.
Peter Cihelka
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AP
March 25, 2012
Mary Ruth Young and her Great Dane, Jack, greet Pranah, a Chihuahua, at the Outback, an off-leash dog park at Shelby Farms in Memphis. On Sunday, a dedication was held at the Outback to commemorate improvements made to the area.
Kyle Kurlick
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AP
March 16, 2012
Galina Konyeva, 74, a member of the singing group "Buranovskiye Babushki," feeds a horse at a folk museum near the village of Ludorvai in the central Russian region of Udmurtia.
Sergei Karpukhin
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Reuters
March 21, 2012
Bison, newly relocated from Yellowstone National Park, are seen in a holding area on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeast Montana. The herd of 62 animals was relocated to the Assiniboine and Sioux tribal area at Fort Peck Indian Reservation to start a new herd, and was welcomed by a tribal drum chant and other ceremonies.
Ted Wood
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AP
March 22, 2012
A mother polar bear plays with one of her three cubs born in November at the Moscow Zoo.
Andrey Smirnov
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March 22, 2012
Two of the three polar bear cubs born in November walk in their enclosure at the Moscow Zoo.
Andrey Smirnov
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AFP/Getty Images
March 21, 2012
Animal handlers carry Gentoo penguins from their normal enclosure to a new home within Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland.
Andy Buchanan
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AFP/Getty Images
March 15, 2012
Keepers monitor 3-month-old baby Gentoo penguins in the breeding center of Ocean Park, a tourist theme park in Hong Kong.
Kin Cheung
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AP
March 15, 2012
A baby Rockhopper penguin is weighed in the breeding center of Ocean Park, a tourist theme park in Hong Kong. More than a dozen penguins were successfully bred at the park between November and December. In the breeding center, chicks raised by penguin keepers live with toy penguins, which are intended to imitate adult penguins. The baby penguins are separated from their parents and hand reared by keepers in an effort to increase their survival rate. In the wild, penguins usually lay two eggs but sometimes are unable to care for both, leaving weaker ones with a low survival rate. The penguins are scheduled to go on public display in fall this year in a newly built penguin compound.
Kin Cheung
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AP
March 21, 2012
Animal control officer George DeLeon pets a kitten rescued from under the hood of a van at the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter in Santa Cruz, Calif. The stowaway kitten is safe, despite taking a hair-raising 85-mile ride from Mill Valley across the Golden Gate Bridge in a van's engine compartment. Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter spokesman Todd Stosuy says the 8-month-old feline was probably just looking for a warm place to sleep. The shelter is trying to locate the owner.
Jonathan Weiand
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AP
March 25, 2012
A giant otter pup eats a fish at Zoo Leipzig in central Germany.
Jens Meyer
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AP
March 20, 2012
Giant goldfish are on exhibit at the Potomac Valley Aquarium Society.
Lisa M. Bolton
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The Washington Post
March 23, 2012
A robin pulls a worm from the ground on a rainy afternoon in a grassy area just north of Zoo Beach in Racine, Wis.
Scott Anderson
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