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Animal views A cat cafe, a mouse deer, New York Halloween dog parade, red pandas and more.
Oct. 21, 2012
An employee kisses Dyushes, a Don Sphynx cat, at the Cats Republic art cafe in St. Petersburg. The Russian cafe includes an exhibition area, a library and a separate hall with cats living inside. Visitors can pay $5 to $10 to play with the cats, according to the owners.
Alexander Demianchuk
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Reuters
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Oct. 17, 2012
A male Java mouse deer explores its habitat at Zurich’s zoo.
Patrick B. Kraemer
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European Pressphoto Agency
Oct. 20, 2012
Nacho, a 4-year-old schnauzer, poses as a New York sightseeing bus driver at the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade in New York. Hundreds of dog owners festooned their pets for the annual event, the largest of its kind in the United States.
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Oct. 20, 2012
Pomeranian Fritz is dressed as a dragon at the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade in New York.
John Moore
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Getty Images
Oct. 20, 2012
Meatball, a bulldog, wears a tuxedo at the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade in New York.
John Moore
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Oct. 21, 2012
A demonstrator gets a kiss from his dog during a rally of animal rights supporters to protest a planned amendment to a Turkish animal protection law in Istanbul. The media have reported that the amendment would move stray dogs into shelters or “natural parks,” where activists fear canines might suffer, rather than return them to the areas in which they were caught under the “Capture, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return” method.
Tolga Bozoglu
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European Pressphoto Agency
Oct. 19, 2012
Sabrina Zamora, president of the animal protection association Ligue Interet a la Societe et de l'Animal, holds a Jack Russell terrier, Ethan, at his new home in Charleville Mezieres, France. Ethan, who was poisoned and buried alive, survived thanks to a witness, a firefighter who came to the rescue and a veterinarian who nursed him back to health.
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Ligue Interet a la Societe et de l'Animal via AP
Oct. 18, 2012
Six-month-old arctic foxes look out from their enclosure at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Mass.
Elise Amendola
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AP
Oct. 18, 2012
The San Diego Zoo’s 11-week-old giant panda cub takes tiny steps during a veterinary examination as zookeepers look on. PK Robbins, right, the zoo’s senior veterinarian, describes the attempt to walk like a toddler holding onto furniture. The unnamed male cub is the sixth giant panda born at the zoo. The cub's mother, Bai Yun, has given birth to a single cub in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009, and to this cub July 29.
Ken Bohn
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San Diego Zoo via AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 18, 2012
Giant pandas play at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province, China.
Sheng Li
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Reuters
Oct. 19, 2012
Two young red pandas sit in their whelping box at the Opelzoo near Kronberg, Germany. The pandas were born in June.
Boris Roessler
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European Pressphoto Agency
Oct. 18, 2012
A dormouse is sedated in an anesthetic chamber before being microchipped as part of a multi-agency conservation project in North Wales. Dormice are native to Britain.
Phil Noble
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Reuters
Oct. 18, 2012
Meerkats at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany, inspect a carved pumpkin filled with flour worms and straw. The animals' enclosure is decorated with pumpkins for Halloween.
Waltraud Grubitzsch
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AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 20, 2012
An osprey snatches a fish on the Hyeongsang River in Pohang, South Korea.
Kim Jae-Sun
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European Pressphoto Agency
Oct. 22, 2012
A pigeon flies through fog near a bridge in Wroclaw, Poland.
Maciej Kulczynski
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European Pressphoto Agency
Oct. 19, 2012
A Congo African grey bird sits atop its perch during the grand reopening of the Washington County Humane Society in Polk, Wis.
John Ehlke
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West Bend, Wis., Daily News via AP
Oct. 21, 2012
A squirrel stretches to eat a nut from a man's hand in the central park in Minsk, Belarus.
Tatyana Zenkovich
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European Pressphoto Agency
Oct. 16, 2012
Jersey cows lean on each other at a farm in Danville, Vt.
Toby Talbot
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AP
Oct. 23, 2012
A toque macaque holds her male baby at Zoo Berlin in Germany. The monkey was born Aug. 23.
Sean Gallup
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Getty Images
Oct. 21, 2012
A mountain gorilla cradles a young gorilla in a clearing in Virunga National Park in Democratic Republic of Congo, near the border town of Bunagana. The M23 Movement, the newly formed political wing of former M23 rebels, opened Virunga to tourists to allow the tracking of the rare mountain gorillas.
James Akena
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Reuters
Oct. 17, 2012
A Latoxan SAS employee holds a black mamba snake before extracting the reptile’s venom in a company laboratory in Valence, France. The company specializes in the production of high-quality venoms and toxins used for research and at pharmaceutical companies.
Balint Porneczi
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Bloomberg News
Oct. 17, 2012
A deathstalker scorpion sits in a jar illuminated by ultraviolet light at the Latoxan SAS laboratory in Valence, France.
Balint Porneczi
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Bloomberg News
Oct. 16, 2012
A seahorse swims in an aquarium at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany.
Michael Probst
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AP
Oct. 19, 2012
A girl observes a sea lion at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany.
Lisi Niesner
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Reuters
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