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Frogs, hippos, polar bears, an Asian water monitor and more in animal views A gibbon, a mongoose, a Sphynx cat and more fascinating creatures from around the world.
April 10, 2012
Frogs rest in a pond where they are being raised as food inside a factory on the outskirts of Pyongyang, North Korea.
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April 5, 2012
A frog peeks up from the water in a pond in Prince William County.
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April 9, 2012
A zookeeper holds a 3-month-old baby white-handed gibbon named Knuppy at the zoo in the northern German city of Bremen. The animals are found in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Burma and Thailand.
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April 4, 2012
Hippopotamuses cool off in a pond at a zoo on a hot day in New Delhi.
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April 3, 2012
A rescued pit bull catches drops of water from a volunteer of the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) at a coffee farm lot in San Pablo, in Laguna province, south of Manila. Dozens of pit bulls rescued from a dogfighting ring will be euthanized by the animal welfare activists, who said there are no facilities to rehabilitate them and prevent them from again being used in underground arenas.
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April 7, 2012
A Sphynx cat reacts during an international cat beauty show in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Mindaugas Kulbis
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April 4, 2012
A colobus yawns at the zoo in Krefeld, western Germany.
Martin Meissner
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April 9, 2012
Polar bear Walker, left, meets with new male companion Arktos at the Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie, Scotland. Arktos arrived from the zoo in Hanover, Germany, on April 4 to be a companion to Walker. A year older than Walker and slightly larger, Arktos is 4 years old, and it's hoped that the bears will establish a relationship of friendly competitiveness.
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April 9, 2012
Walker, right, meets with new male companion Arktos at the Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie, Scotland.
Jeff J. Mitchell
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April 10, 2012
Mother Orsa, left, and her three young bears discover the open-air enclosure at the wildlife park Tripsdrill near Cleebronn, southern Germany.
Franziska Kraufmann
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April 9, 2012
An egret and a turtle mingle at Iwatsuki Joshi Park in Iwatsuki, near Tokyo.
Koji Sasahara
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AP
April 4, 2012
Two American flamingos stand at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Garden in Los Angeles.
Joe Klamar
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April 3, 2012
A roe deer stands in a field near the village of Gorodishche, 50 miles southwest of Minsk, Belarus.
Vasily Fedosenko
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Reuters
April 5, 2012
Franzi, a young Mhorr gazelle, stands in an enclosure at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany. Franzi was born Feb. 16.
Mario Vedder
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AP
April 10, 2012
The carcass of the world's most well-preserved baby mammoth, named Lyuba, is displayed in Hong Kong. Lyuba, whose carcass is 42,000 years old, was found by a reindeer herder in Yamal Peninsula in Russia in 2007. She will be exhibited at IFC Mall in Hong Kong on April 12.
Aaron Tam
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April 10, 2012
The carcass of a well-preserved baby mammoth, named Lyuba, is shown off during a media preview in Hong Kong.
Tyrone Siu
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Reuters
April 4, 2012
Rabbit foundling Ruediger sleeps in a keeper's hand at the zoo in Muenster, Germany. Ruediger, weighing 2.6 ounces, and his sister Kaline (2.1 ounces) were found in a dung pile at the zoo and are brought up now by keepers.
Rolf Vennenbernd
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April 4, 2012
A pheasant walks through the snow in Glen Gairn in Ballater, Scotland.
Jeff J. Mitchell
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April 9, 2012
An American bald eagle feeds its young in their nest at Gray's Lake Park in Des Moines.
Charlie Neibergall
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AP
March 28, 2012
Orangutans MJ, left, and her adoptive son Mahal watch a video on an iPad held up to the glass of their enclosure by volunteer Scott Engel at the Milwaukee County Zoo. Zookeepers have been using iPads as enrichment tools for nearly a year now and are retrofitting their building with WiFi so that the primates can soon have virtual playdates with orangutans at other zoos using live streaming video applications such as FaceTime.
Mira Oberman
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April 4, 2012
Ya Kwanza, a silverback gorilla, stands in his enclosure at the Amneville zoo in eastern France. Ya Kwanza arrived with seven other gorillas from other Western zoos as part of a European program to promote the breeding of endangered species.
Jean-Christophe Verhaegen
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April 5, 2012
A 2-week-old Siberian tiger cub is held after finishing her bottle of milk in Dade City, Fla.
Skip O'Rourke
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AP
April 5, 2012
One-month-old leopard cub Imoo sits at Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, 141 miles northeast of Budapest. The cub's name means "darkness" in the Swahili language. Imoo’s parents have lived in the zoo since 2007.
Attila Balazs
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April 6, 2012
Visitors observe a lion at a new safari park named Taygan in the Belgorsky region of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. The park contains about 2,000 specimens, including 50 lions, according to local media.
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April 8, 2012
Children look at Altai, a 6-month-old lion cub, as they visit a zoo in the city of Barnaul, the capital of the Altai region of Russia. Altai was used by a previous owner in Moscow for street photo shoots before being transported to a private apartment in Krasnoyarsk and has now settled in the zoo of Barnaul, according to zoo employees.
Andrei Kasprishin
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Reuters
April 6, 2012
Clyde, an Asian water monitor, goes on an early Easter egg hunt with the help of trainer Caroline Smith at SeaWorld San Diego. Clyde gobbled up several eggs. Asian water monitors, native to marshes and riverbanks throughout southern Asia, are good climbers and sometimes feed on eggs from birds' nests. They also eat birds, fish and other small animals.
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April 5, 2012
Steve Brown, president of the St. Louis Herpetological Society, holds a young alligator in Cape Girardeau, Mo. The alligator is one of about 50 allegedly sold by a man passing through southeast Missouri about 14 months ago when the animals were roughly the size of a pencil.
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April 4, 2012
A bowmouth guitarfish swims in a tank during a preview of the newly renovated Suzanne and Walter Scott Aquarium at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha.
Nati Harnik
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April 4, 2012
A cownose ray swims in a tank during a preview of the newly renovated Suzanne and Walter Scott Aquarium at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha.
Nati Harnik
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April 4, 2012
A West Coast sea nettle drifts in a tank at the newly renovated Suzanne and Walter Scott Aquarium at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha.
Nati Harnik
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April 4, 2012
West Coast sea nettles are shown off during a preview of the newly renovated Suzanne and Walter Scott Aquarium at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb.
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April 6, 2012
A pedigree Tibetan mastiff, valued by its owner at more than $1 million, is on display at a dog show in the town of Daxing, near Beijing.
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April 4, 2012
Brandy Beasley, left, and Bobbie Deen carry kittens they rescued from a home demolished by a tornado during a cleanup effort in Forney, Tex.
Tim Sharp
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Reuters
April 6, 2012
A mongoose peers out of a tube at the zoo in Hanover, Germany.
Peter Steffen
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