Aug. 18, 2010
A giant schnauzer and a cat check each other out in the eastern German city of Leipzig.
Peter Endig-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 12, 2010
A Shih Tzu named Cookie stands in a basket to head to a morning market in Bangkok.
Sakchai Lalit-AP
July 20, 2010
An emu, one of the Montana Emu Ranch Co.'s breeding stock, makes low drumming noises as it wanders about a pen at the ranch west of Kalispell, Mont.
Lido Vizzutti-AP
Aug. 17, 2010
The legs of a Chilean flamingo are seen after a fake electronic transmitter chip was attached as part of an adaptation period to a real device at Santiago's Zoo About 10 Chilean flamingos, an endangered species, are being prepared to be released with an electronic transmitter chip to check migration habits, according to authorities at Santiago's zoo.
Ivan Alvarado-Reuters
Aug. 11, 2010
Baby birds wait to be fed by their mother in their nest outside a house in Madrid, N.M.
Gabriel Bouys-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 13, 2010
Nepalese one-horned rhinoceros Kancha stands at the central zoo in Kathmandu. Nepal's only zoo has opened a new "honeymoon suite" for its two one-horned rhinos in the hope of getting the endangered pair to breed. Kancha, 20, and Kanchi, 22, have lived together in captivity for most of their adult lives but have never bred.
Prakash Mathema-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 13, 2010
Kancha, left, and Kanchi share their new "honeymoon suite" at Nepal's zoo.
Prakash Mathema-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 13, 2010
Two hippos play in the pool of their enclosure at the zoo in Cologne, western Germany.
Oliver Berg-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 13, 2010
Hippos play in the pool of their enclosure at the Hippodrom in Cologne.
Oliver Berg-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 13, 2010
A bison cools off in a sprinkler at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for the Chicago area as temperatures reached the low to mid-90s with high humidity causing the heat index to reach 105 to 110 across the area.
Scott Olson-Getty Images
Aug. 14, 2010
Cows graze on a meadow near the mountain shelter Weilheimer Huette, in the Alps in southern Germany, during nice weather.
Christof Stache-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 16, 2010
Donkeys looking to be rehomed stand near Sidmouth, England. Founded in 1973 and now one of the largest equine charities in the world, the Donkey Sanctuary is urgently appealing for new fosterers across the U.K. to give a home to rescued donkeys. Since 2008 the numbers of donkeys being rescued or relinquished to the sanctuary has almost doubled and the current global economic problems have had a serious effect on the animal charity.
Matt Cardy-Getty Images
Aug. 18, 2010
Four penguins stand in their enclosure at the zoo in the northern German city of Hanover.
Jochen Luebke-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 16, 2010
Rats drink milk donated by Hindu devotees inside the Karni Mata temple at Deshnoke in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. Hindu devotees offer prayers in the temple for the betterment of their family and society. The temple has thousands of rats that are fed, protected and worshiped throughout the year, and it is regarded auspicious if a rat runs across one's feet.
Krishnendu Halder-Reuters
Aug. 16, 2010
White-striped tiger cub "Majestic" makes a face at Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at the Mirage hotel and casino in Las Vegas.
Steve Marcus-Reuters
Aug. 13, 2010
Newly born black panther twins Baturgai and Ormilia are presented to media at east Berlin's zoological garden "Tierpark."
Odd Andersen-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 15, 2010
Two baby "ligers" -- hybrids of lions and tigers -- at Taiwan's "World Snake King Education Farm" in Kuijen. Taiwanese authorities said on Aug. 16 that the owner of the farm, Huang Kuo-nan, the first on the island to see the birth of ligers, will face a fine of up to 50,000 Taiwan dollars ($1,600) for breeding wildlife animals without prior approval from the authorities.
Huang Kuo-nan-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 12, 2010
A little burned lizard is pictured after a forest fire in Maside, Spain.
Miguel Riopa-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 6, 2010
A ribbon snake is seen on salvinia in a cypress swamp adjacent to marsh that stretches to the Gulf of Mexico. This bay that was the scene of the first startling images of oil-caked birds from the BP oil spill already has shoots of marsh grass and mangroves growing back. The marsh is healing itself.
Gerald Herbert-AP
Aug. 17, 2010
A snail makes its way across rain-covered leaves on a lawn in the eastern German city of Dresden.
Arno Burgi-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 16, 2010
A hummingbird visits a feeding station near Maysville, Ky.
Terry Prather-AP
Aug. 6, 2010
A barn owl struts his stuff during a presentation by HawkQuest at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyo.
Kevin Kinzley-AP
August 2010
Luwu, a female lowland anoa, shown in a recently released photo, was born Aug. 2. The anoa is a species of pigmy buffalo, and they are the smallest of the wild cattle.
F-G Grandin-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 17, 2010
California sea lion Doro nuzzles her 2-month-old baby Gina in their enclosure during their official presentation at the Berlin Zoo.
Fabrizio Bensch-Reuters
Aug. 12, 2010
Matt, a 6-year-old camel, was hit in the head by a tree branch that came down in the storms that blew through the Washington area. Veterinarian Pat Skipton placed six stitches in his head at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds on Thursday.
Katherine Frey-The Washington Post
Aug. 17, 2010
A park ranger carries an orphaned female mountain gorilla at a protected location in Virunga National Park, just north of the eastern Congolese city of Goma.
Finbarr O'Reilly-Reuters
Aug. 12, 2010
A new species of titi monkey, Callicebus caquetensis, was was found recently in the Colombian Amazon region near the borders with Ecuador and Peru. The monkey is the size of a cat and has grayish-brown hair but does not have a white bar on its forehead like many of the other species of Callicebus most closely related to it.
AP
Aug. 18, 2010
A long-tailed macaque monkey holds a plastic drink bottle in its mouth at Batu Caves, the sacred place for Hindus in Malaysia. The caves are one of the most popular Hindu shrines outside India, dedicated to Lord Murugan.
Mark Baker-AP
Aug. 12, 2010
Monkeys take a cool shower at Xiangshan zoo in Huaibei, China.
Wang Wen-AP
Aug. 12, 2010
Rochale, a 41-year-old Sumatran orangutan, holds her newborn baby at the Ramat Gan Safari park near Tel Aviv.
Menahem Kahana-AFP/Getty Images
Gallery Credits:
Photo Editor Dan Murano
