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Animal views A box turtle reportedly shows up again up after 47 years, pandas learn survival skills, dogs get a helping hand, and more.
May 6, 2012
A woman holds her cat dressed in a costume during a cat and dog exhibition in Minsk, Belarus.
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Aaron Winters, executive director of the Kalamazoo Humane Society, holds a Shar-Pei puppy at the agency in Kalamazoo, Mich. The society was among the agencies that helped spay and neuter some of the dogs rescued from a puppy mill in Allegan County last month.
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Dogs are kept in a cage at Nowzad, an animal shelter, on the outskirts of Kabul. Nowzad has given homes to more than 330 dogs since it was founded, mostly to soldiers from the United States and Britain.
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May 3, 2012
Odense Zoo's female tiger gave birth to three cubs May 3 in Denmark. The cubs, who will be seen by visitors to the zoo later this spring, were welcomed as an increase in the population of the dying Siberian tiger.
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May 6, 2012
An Inca tern, top left, and a pelican, right, congregate with gulls in the waters off Cerro Azul beach in Canete, Lima. Peru's government declared a health alert along its northern coastline Saturday and urged residents and tourists to stay away from long stretches of beach as it investigates the deaths of hundreds of dolphins and pelicans. At least 1,200 birds, mostly pelicans, washed up dead along a stretch of Peru's northern Pacific coastline in recent weeks, health officials said, after an estimated 800 dolphins died in the same area in recent months.
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May 2, 2012
A pelican crawls away from the surf to die on the beach of Paita, in Tumbes, Peru, close to the border with Ecuador. According to the Peruvian vice minister of environment, Gabriel Quijandria, the cause of death of thousands of fish, seabirds and other animal wildlife that have been washing ashore in the northern coasts of Peru is an ailment called morbillivirus that has caused similar effects on the coasts of Mexico and the United States.
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May 1, 2012
A bald eagle flaps its wings as David Haggard, a ranger with Tennessee State Parks, handles the bird shortly after bringing it out of its container in the parking lot of Logan's Roadhouse in Paducah, Ky. The eagle appeared along with a bard owl, a red-tailed hawk and a corn snake as part of Titans Caravan 2012 for the National Football League's Tennessee Titans.
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May 1, 2012
A bald eagle perches in its nest along with a young eaglet at Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Brecksville, Ohio. Park officials are unsure whether the pair of nesting eagles have one or two young, but they are sure one hatched in early April.
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May 4, 2012
This swan is a regular visitor to the pond that sits off the southern edge of the Virginia Gold Cup’s course at Great Meadow in The Plains.
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April 4, 2012
A plate-billed mountain toucan (Andigena laminirostris) perches at the private reserve of Paz de las Aves (Peace of the Birds) near Nanegalito, Ecuador, north of Quito. Ecuador is a paradise for bird-watching because it has 1,600 species.
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May 3, 2012
Workers wear panda costumes as they carry a box to transport giant pandas back to the wild at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Wolong, southwest China. The bears will be left to fend for themselves to learn crucial survival skills, and scientists plan to gradually reduce human interactions until they can live in the wild without any assistance. Although there have been 10 attempts at setting pandas free in the past 30 years, only two are thought to have been successful, as the bears find it very hard to survive on their own.
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May 3, 2012
A curious giant panda checks out a box that was used to transport the pandas back to the wild at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Wolong, China.
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May 2, 2012
Holland Coke found this turtle on his family's property in Washington, Pa., on Wednesday. He believes it is the box turtle his son, Jeff Coke, carved his initials into the shell of 47 years ago. His son is now 59 and lives near Rochester, N.Y.
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Holland Coke holds a turtle he found on the family's property in Washington, Pa., on Wednesday. Coke believes it is the box turtle his son, Jeff Coke, carved his initials into the shell of 47 years ago.
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AP
May 4, 2012
Visitors look at the carcass of the world's most well-preserved baby mammoth, Lyuba, being displayed in a shopping mall in Hong Kong. Discovered in the permafrost of Russia's Yamal Peninsula in 2007 by a reindeer herder, the female baby mammoth remained almost fully intact with organs and eyelashes preserved.
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April 4, 2012
An olingo is seen at the private reserve of Paz de las Aves (Peace of the Birds) near Nanegalito, Ecuador, north of Quito.
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May 3, 2012
Two little golden lion tamarins hang on their father at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany. The twins were born six weeks ago.
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May 2, 2012
Moka, an endangered western lowland gorilla, plays with her 3-month-old baby at the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium.
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May 3, 2012
Monkeys enjoy a cold bath in a pond during a hot day in a rural neighborhood in Thailand’s Ayutthaya province, 50 miles north of Bangkok. Bangkok is experiencing its hottest average temperatures in the past 30 years.
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May 6, 2012
In this photo provided by the Chicago Zoological Society, two of 11 common chuckwallas that hatched March 23 at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill., climb atop their mother. The Chicago Zoological Society, which manages the zoo, has had success in breeding this particular species of chuckwalla, which is found in the southwestern United States. The zoo’s staff members plan to use their expertise in husbandry of this species to breed San Esteban chuckwallas, a more endangered chuckwalla species, in the future.
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An American bullfrog floats in a stream at Tawawa Park in Sidney, Ohio.
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May 4, 2012
Deer run across a meadow during the warm spring weather in Lancaster, N.Y.
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A baby swan stretches out as it hangs out with its mother and siblings at the Michigan Center Lake boat launch in Leoni Township, Mich.
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