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Animal views Japanese macaque monkeys, squirrels in Kyrgyzstan, sled-dog races, a duck, a polar bear and more.
Jan. 26, 2013
Japanese macaque monkeys huddle together to protect themselves against the cold at Awajishima Monkey Center on in Sumoto, Japan. Low temperatures and heavy snowfalls have hit the country.
Buddhika Weerasinghe
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Jan. 28, 2013
An Iranian scientist holds a monkey that state media reported had returned to Earth after it was shot into space last week during a rocket and reentry system test.
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Jan. 29, 2013
Anfisa, an 8-year-old chimpanzee, washes a window of her enclosure, where she lives with a male chimpanzee named Tikhon, at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Ilya Naymushin
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Reuters
Jan. 30, 2013
A white tiger cub gets a physical examination at the Serengeti wildlife park in Hodenhagen, Germany. The tiger was born at the park in October.
Julian Stratenschulte
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 30, 2013
An 8-week-old white lion cub roars as he receives his first medical checkup at Serengeti wildlife park in Hodenhagen, Germany. Four 8-week-old white lion cubs and four 16-week-old white tiger cubs were born at the park in fall.
Fabian Bimmer
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Reuters
Jan. 30, 2013
Three white tiger cubs are seen at the Serengeti wildlife park in Hodenhagen, Germany.
Julian Stratenschulte
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 30, 2013
Four white lions and four white tigers are pictured in their compound at the Serengeti wildlife park in Hodenhagen, Germany.
Julian Stratenschulte
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AP
Jan. 24, 2013
Wolf researcher Werner Freund is surrounded by Arctic wolves in an enclosure at Wolfspark Werner Freund in Merzig, Germany. Freund, 79, a former German paratrooper, established the wolf sanctuary in 1972 and has raised more than 70 animals over the past 40 years. The wolves, acquired as cubs from zoos or animal parks, were mostly hand-reared. On 25 acres, Wolfspark is currently home to 29 wolves.
Lisi Niesner
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Reuters
Jan. 24, 2013
Wolf researcher Werner Freund feeds Arctic wolves meat from his mouth in Merzig, Germany. Freund has to behave as the alpha male of the pack to earn the wolves’ respect.
Lisi Niesner
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Reuters
Jan. 22, 2013
A deer stands in a field of heavy frost southeast of Walla Walla, Wash., at the foothills of the Blue Mountains, where temperatures had dropped into the mid-teens.
Jeff Horner
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Walla Walla, Wash., Union-Bulletin via AP
Jan. 27, 2013
A squirrel is seen in a park in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek.
Vyacheslav Oseledko
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 27, 2013
A squirrel jumps in a park in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Vyacheslav Oseledko
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 29, 2013
An Eurasian eagle-owl is seen at the Jagd and Hund (Hunting and Dog) Fair in Dortmund, Germany. Fair organizers expect about 70,000 visitors.
Caroline Seidel
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 26, 2013
A musher rides her sled during the third international Zavirukha-2013 (Snowstorm-2013) sled-dog race near the village of Raubichi, about 19 miles east of Minsk, Belarus. Contestants from Belarus and neighboring Russia, Latvia and Lithuania took part in the competition.
Vasily Fedosenko
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Reuters
Jan. 23, 2013
Mushers and their huskies gather on a forest course during practice for the Aviemore Sled Dog Rally in Feshiebridge, Scotland. The teams prepare ahead of the Siberian Husky Club of Great Britain’s 30th anniversary race, which is taking place this weekend near Aviemore, Scotland.
Jeff J. Mitchell
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Jan. 22, 2013
A dog rests alongside mushers after arriving at the Mont-Cenis pass, near Lanslebourg in the French Alps, during the Grande Odyssee Sled Dog Race. The annual competition takes 12 days to complete.
Laurent Cipriani
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AP
Jan. 24, 2013
A stray dog stands in the path of an Indian military band during rehearsals for the Beating Retreat ceremony at Raisina Hill, which houses India's most important ministries and the presidential palace in New Delhi. The ceremony is held annually on Jan. 29, marking the end of Republic Day celebrations.
Manish Swarup
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AP
Jan. 27, 2013
A dog owner walks her pet to the Krewe of Barkus parade in New Orleans’s French Quarter.
Jeff Haynes
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Reuters
Jan. 22, 2013
A polar bear swims in the new Arctic Circle exhibit at the Copenhagen Zoo.
Bidstrup Stine
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AP
Jan. 28, 2013
Two great white pelicans sit on a rock and are reflected in a pool at a zoo in Frankfurt, Germany.
Nicolas Armer
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AP
Dec. 30, 2010
The head of an Adelie penguin and an ice floe are seen in this image taken from a video recorded by a camera on a penguin's back in Antarctica. Yuuki Watanabe, an assistant professor at Japan's National Institute of Polar Research, on Jan. 23 released footage recorded in December 2010 that shows a bird's-eye view of a hunt for fish and small crustaceans called krill.
Yuuki Watanabe
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National Institute of Polar Research via Reuters
Jan. 26, 2013
Farmworkers attempt to recapture one of about 15,000 crocodiles that escaped from their pens during flooding near Mussina, on South Africa's northern border with Zimbabwe.
Mike Hutchings
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Reuters
Jan. 24, 2012
Julianne Miller examines Cupid, a male mallard duck, who was shot in the neck with an arrow and rescued from a country club pond by Arizona Game and Fish Department employees in Flagstaff. The arrow was removed, and Cupid was released into the wild.
Jake Bacon
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Arizona Daily Sun via AP
Jan. 30, 2013
Members of the media speak and photograph dog owners after a news conference in New York by the American Kennel Club to discuss the release of its annual list of the most popular dog breeds in the United States. The club says that for the 22nd straight year, the Labrador retriever is the nation's most popular dog, followed by the German shepherd.
Spencer Platt
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Getty Images
Jan. 27, 2013
A girl walks past a poster featuring a cat during the Athens 21st International Cat Show.
John Kolesidis
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Reuters
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