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Dec. 2, 2012
This photo provided by Mystic Aquarium shows a Santa playing a saxophone to serenade Juno, a 10-year-old male beluga whale, at the aquarium in Mystic, Conn., during the Winter Waterland celebration.
Abigail Pheiffer
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Dec. 7, 2012
Hippopotamus Kathi and her offspring swim in the water at the zoo in Berlin. The river horse bull was born Nov. 23.
Tim Brakemeier
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 7, 2012
A 2-week-old hippopotamus is shown in its outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Berlin.
Johannes Eisel
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Dec. 4, 2012
A potbellied pig looks into the camera at Schwarze Berge animal park, south of Hamburg, in Rosengarten, Germany. More than a thousand animals live at the park.
Axel Heimken
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 6, 2012
One-year-old sea lions Camilo, left, and Alex stand at the edge of a boat before jumping into the ocean as journalists take pictures off the coast of Lima, Peru. The sea lions were rehabilitated by Peru’s Organization for Research and Conservation of Aquatic Animals (ORCA) after being found injured one month ago on a Lima beach.
Martin Mejia
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AP
Dec. 6, 2012
Pelicans stand next to a fish market on Chorrillos beach in Lima, Peru.
Enrique Castro-Mendivil
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Reuters
Dec. 6, 2012
Volunteer Deirdre Witkowski lifts a 40-pound loggerhead turtle back into its pool at the New England Aquarium’s Animal Care Center in Quincy, Mass. Sea turtle strandings in Cape Cod Bay are so common that the phenomenon has its own annual season and an established network of rescuers trained to find and help the endangered animals.
Elise Amendola
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AP
Dec. 6, 2012
Rescued Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are fed at the New England Aquarium’s Animal Care Center in Quincy, Mass.
Elise Amendola
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AP
Dec. 7, 2012
Japanese macaques, commonly referred to as snow monkeys, take an open-air hot spring bath at the Jigokudani (Hell’s Valley) Monkey Park in the town of Yamanouchi, Japan. About 160 of the monkeys inhabit the area and are a popular tourist draw.
Kazuhiro Nogi
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 10, 2012
Japanese macaques, commonly referred to as "snow monkeys," react next to an open-air hot spring bath at the Jigokudani Monkey Park in the town of Yamanouchi, Nagano prefecture, Japan.
Kazuhiro Nogi
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 6, 2012
Camels stand in a pasture in Berkenthin, northern Germany. The herd is used for film and television productions.
Markus Scholz
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 5, 2012
A woman walks with her dog during a blizzard in Stockholm.
Jonathan Nackstrand
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 7, 2012
A squirrel feeds on nuts left by visitors at a tree in a park in central Minsk, Belarus.
Vasily Fedosenko
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Reuters
Dec. 7, 2012
A bison stands in an outside enclosure during snowfall at Les Plaines de Rosiere bison breeding farm in Colovrex, Switzerland, near Geneva.
Denis Balibouse
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Reuters
Dec. 7, 2012
An albino fallow deer is seen at an outdoor enclosure in Niendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Angelika Warmuth
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 4, 2012
Fallow deer are pictured at Schwarze Berge animal park, south of Hamburg, in Rosengarten, Germany.
Axel Heimken
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 4, 2012
A moose licks its lips at Schwarze Berge animal park, south of Hamburg, in Rosengarten, Germany.
Axel Heimken
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 5, 2012
The hounds of the Saltersgate Farmers Hunt are shown in the snow at Low Kingthorpe Wood, England.
Anthony Chappel-Ross
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AP
Dec. 7, 2012
This undated photo received from Auckland, New Zealand-based advertising agency DraftFCB shows Ginny in the driver’s seat behind the wheel while training. Rather than chasing cars, dogs in New Zealand are being taught to drive them — steering, pedals and all — in a project aimed at increasing pet adoptions from animal shelters. Animal trainer Mark Vette has spent two months training three cross-breed rescue dogs from the Auckland SPCA to drive a modified Mini as a way of proving that even unwanted canines can be taught to perform complex tasks.
DraftFCB
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 4, 2012
A Prager Rattler dog wears a thermal “sheep”-style outfit in Frankfurt, Germany.
Boris Roessler
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 30, 2012
Young Hereford calves stare out from a pen at Offham Farm, a supplier to Tesco, in Arundel, southern England.
Luke MacGregor
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Reuters
Dec. 6, 2012
A diver from the Belarus emergencies ministry tries to catch a sick swan on a lake near the village of Shvaby, 59 miles north of Minsk, to transport the bird to an unfrozen lake near the
Belarusan
capital.
Viktor Drachev
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AFP/Getty Images
Dec. 11, 2012
A pheasant forages in a frozen field in Knutsford, England.
Christopher Furlong
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Getty Images
Dec. 9, 2012
Pelicans are pictured at Deepor Beel bird sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, northeast India. The migratory birds are a common sight in the area during the onset of winter.
Biju Boro
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AFP/Getty Images
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