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Animal views Abandoned horse rescue, a sloth bear, baby alligator, golden frog and more.
Aug. 17, 2012
Genea Stoops, who runs Hooves & Paws Rescue of the Heartland, interacts with 3-year-old Theodore, one of the horses she shelters in Glenwood, Iowa. Because of drought, little but stubble is left on pastures and hay prices have soared, forcing some horse owners to abandon them on the doorstep of animal rescue operations.
Nati Harnik
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AP
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Aug. 17, 2012
Stoops tends to Buttercup, a 21-year-old miniature horse she shelters.
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Aug. 3, 2012
Jana Gould feeds her camel at her home near Buhl, Idaho. Gould also owns a zedonk, a cross between a donkey and a zebra. “They're a little mean: The zedonk has an attitude, and the camel is getting old,” she said. “But they grew up together, and they can't be separated. They're buddies, so they were a packaged deal.”
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Aug. 15, 2012
A bear eats produce from a garden at a house in Rutland, Mass.
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Aug, 16, 2012
Villagers move Buddu, a sloth bear, at a family’s home in Lakhapada, 220 miles from Bhubaneswar, India. The wild bear, which was rescued from the family by wildlife officials, wandered into the village while following a herd of goats and had lived with the family ever since.
Biswaranjan Rout
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AP
Aug, 15, 2012
An elephant collects grass with his trunk at the Zoologischer Garten in Berlin.
Barbara Sax
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 15, 2012
Newborn baby elephant Anchali stands next to his mother, Pang Pha, during his first presentation to the media and other visitors at the Zoologischer Garten. Anchali was born Aug. 12 at the zoo.
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 14, 2012
Schoenbrunn Zoo Director Dagmar Schratter displays an ultrasonic image of an elephant fetus during a news conference in Vienna. The image shows an elephant fetus on day 141 of the pregnancy of its mother, Tonga, taken April 18. This is the first successful insemination in the world of an African elephant using frozen sperm taken from a wild elephant bull in South Africa, the zoo said.
Heinz-Peter Bader
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Reuters
Aug. 16, 2012
A young hippopotamus follows its mother by a river in Serengeti National Park in Grumeti, Tanzania.
Noor Khamis
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Reuters
Aug. 16, 2012
A hippopotamus opens its mouth in a river in Serengeti National Park in Grumeti, Tanzania.
Noor Khamis
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Reuters
Aug. 19, 2012
A baby alligator merges from its eggshell as it hatches at Gatorama's Alligator Hatching Festival near Palmdale, Fla. Gatorama officials said it was a very good year for eggs. The animal park got 3,233 alligator eggs from this year's harvest of more than 37,000 eggs gathered by state-sponsored hunters. In the wild, only two percent of baby alligators will mature, but at the park 98 percent will mature. Visitors to the park can hold a egg in their hands and watch the baby alligator as it hatches.
J Pat Carter
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AP
In this undated photograph provided by the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism, a free-roaming, adult, male blue iguana stands in the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park on Grand Cayman. About 700 blue iguanas breed and roam free in protected woodlands on the eastern side of Grand Cayman in the western Caribbean, the only place where the critically endangered animals are found in the wild.
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Aug. 14, 2012
A Panamanian golden frog is seen on the hand of biologist Heidi Ross during Golden Frog Day in the Nispero Zoo at Valle de Anton, Panama. The golden frog (Atelopus zeteki) is one of Panama's national symbols. According to biologist Edgardo Griffith, there are only 10 frogs in the breeding program at the zoo, and the species is in danger of extinction in the country.
Carlos Jasso
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Reuters
Aug. 16, 2012
Two dolphins open their mouths to catch a fish they're being fed at the zoo in Nuremberg, southern Germany.
David Ebener
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 9, 2012
Eggs sit in a relocated loggerhead turtle nest on Litchfield Beach along the coast of South Carolina. The volunteers carefully removed the 84 eggs and buried them higher in the dunes and out of harm's way after researchers felt the female had dug the nest too close to the tide line. Turtle volunteers walk the area's beaches along South Carolina's coast daily during the nesting season, looking for signs of turtle activity and keeping tabs on the progress of the endangered species of turtles that lay their eggs along the coast.
Randall Hill
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Reuters
Aug. 17, 2012
A loggerhead turtle hatchling makes its way to the surf at South Litchfield Beach. South Carolina United Turtle Enthusiasts is a group of volunteers dedicated to sea turtle conservation in Georgetown and Horry counties. Volunteers walk the area's beaches along South Carolina's coast daily during the nesting season, looking for signs of turtle activity and keeping tabs on the progress of the endangered species of turtles that lay their eggs along the coast.
Randall Hill
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Reuters
Aug. 19, 2012
An impala grazes at Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
Noor Khamis
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Reuters
Aug. 20, 2012
Goats rest on a vintage truck near Carcross, an unincorporated community in Canada’s Yukon territory.
Chris Wattie
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Reuters
Aug. 14, 2012
Kavi, an 11-year-old tiger recently acquired from Zoo Atlanta, quenches his thirst in the moat around the Great Cats Exhibit at the National Zoo in Washington.
Katherine Frey
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The Washington Post
Aug. 19, 2012
A lioness yawns while resting with its cub at Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
Noor Khamis
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Reuters
Aug. 18, 2012
A dog owner brushes a collie at the international exhibition of Germany's kennel club in Leipzig.
Hendrik Schmidt
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug, 18, 2012
A polar bear cools off in the water pond of his enclosure at the zoo in Karlsruhe, in southern Germany.
Uli Deck
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AFP/Getty Images
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