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Animal views Pandas, a Brazilian armadillo, a newborn okapi, a rescued baby gorilla and more in animal views.
Sept. 20, 2012
A giant panda cub at the San Diego Zoo is shown during his fifth veterinary exam. The male cub, born July 29, weighed 4.9 pounds, nearly a pound more than he weighed during the previous exam. Veterinarians recorded that the cub’s eyes are almost open now, and they believe that the cub can see but is likely limited to viewing light and shadows. The San Diego Zoo is following the Chinese cultural tradition of waiting to name the panda until it is 100 days old, but it is taking name suggestions.
Tammy Spratt
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Sept. 24, 2012
Tian Tian, the 275-pound male giant panda at the National Zoo, climbs a tree in his outdoor enclosure the day after the death of a 6-day-old panda cub at the zoo. The preliminary necropsy of the 4-ounce female cub did not immediately reveal the cause of death, but the cub had liver abnormalities and fluid in its abdomen, zoo officials say.
Chip Somodevilla
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Sept. 18, 2012
A Brazilian three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus), a.k.a. Tatu-Bola in Portuguese, walks in Rio de Janeiro. The Tatu-Bola — an endangered species — was chosen as the mascot of the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014.
Vanderlei Almeida
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Sept. 18, 2012
A Brazilian three-banded armadillo curls into a ball in Rio de Janeiro.
Vanderlei Almeida
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 18, 2012
A Brazilian three-banded armadillo curls into a ball in Rio de Janeiro.
Vanderlei Almeida
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 18, 2012
Jari, right, a young male Indian rhinoceros, stands beside his 18-year-old mother, Quetta, in an outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Basel, Switzerland.
Arnd Wiegmann
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Reuters
Sept. 18, 2012
Dogs that were dyed red upon contact with Rhodamine B extra are seen in Jinan, Shandong province, China. A bag of Rhodamine B extra, which is easily soluble in water and makes the solution red, dropped on a highway and drifted to a nearby village after being crushed by passing vehicles, local media reported.
China Daily
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Reuters
Sept. 23, 2012
A motorist brakes to stop as a buck leaps across a road in East Aurora, N.Y.
Robert Kirkham
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AP
Sept. 18, 2012
Animal keeper Rainer Kraut spray-washes an elephant, Drumbo, at the zoo in Dresden, Germany. More than 2,000 animals live at the zoo, which gets about 700,000 visitors yearly.
Arno Burgi
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AFP/Getty Images
Science magazine shows tabby cats with the "mackerel" pattern, top row, and blotched pattern, bottom row. Scientists say they've found the gene that sets the common tabby pattern — stripes or blotches. Cats with narrow stripes, the so-called mackerel pattern, have a working copy of the gene. But if a mutation turns the gene off, the cat ends up with the blotchy "classic'' pattern, researchers reported online on Sept. 20 in the journal Science.
Helmi Flick
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Science via AP
Sept. 20, 2012
A photo distributed by Zoo Antwerpen in Antwerp, Belgium, shows a male okapi called Nkosi, which was born recently at the zoo. Okapi live in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo and are an endangered species.
Johan Verhulst
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 18, 2012
A swallow carries food in its beak as its young are waiting in Hamel, France. Alarmed by a 2010 report that estimated that swallows' population in France decreased by 40 percent since 1989, the Ligue Pour la Protection Des Oiseaux, a bird protection league, launched last spring a new census scheduled over two years. According to ornithologists, the causes of the decline are agriculture and urban development practices.
Philippe Huguen
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 19, 2012
A group of cranes stands on a meadow near Muencheberg, Germany.
Patrick Pleul
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 19, 2012
A duck swims during an autumn day in a pond in the Tsaritsino estate in southern Moscow.
Mikhail Metzel
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AP
Sept. 13, 2012
Capt. Brett McBride streams seawater over the gills of a nearly 15-foot, 2,292-pound great white shark on the research vessel Ocearch in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Chatham, Mass. A crew of researchers and fishermen is tagging great white sharks off Cape Cod in an unorthodox way. The Ocearch team baits the sharks and leads them onto a lift, tagging them and taking blood, tissue and semen samples up close from the ocean predator. The real-time satellite tag tracks the shark each time its dorsal fin breaks the surface, plotting its location on a map.
Stephan Savoia
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AP
Sept. 20, 2012
Ayu Rosalina, a 2-day-old baby Sumatran elephant, stands near her mother in Aceh, Indonesia.
Heri Juanda
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AP
Sept. 24, 2012
John Oravecz, 65, of Edgewater, Md., rides with his dog, Buddy, at City Dock in Annapolis. Buddy wears custom goggles.
Mary F. Calvert
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For the Washington Post
Sept. 24, 2012
John Oravecz, 65, of Edgewater, Md., rides with his dog, Buddy, at City Dock in Annapolis.
Mary F. Calvert
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For The Washington Post
Sept. 18, 2012
An exhibitor holds a Holland Lop rabbit, one of many animals for show at the North Alabama State Fair in Muscle Shoals, Ala.
Allison Carter
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AP
Sept. 24, 2012
Mittens, a 4-year-old Pekingese, nurses Bootsie, a stray kitten, in Jordan, Minn. Mittens’ owner, Pat Weber, says the kitten was just days old when her grandson found it in their barn and brought it into their house. Mittens hadn’t had a litter for two years, but allowed the kitten to suckle and began producing milk three days later, and has nursed Bootsie since. The family’s veterinarian says it’s unusual but not unheard of for a dog to nurse a cat.
Jeff Baenen
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AP
Sept. 22, 2012
A goat is one of many house and farm animals shown during the D.C. State Fair along Eighth Street in Southeast Washington.
Astrid Riecken
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For The Washington Post
Sept. 21, 2012
A photo released by Virunga National Park shows a baby Grauer’s gorilla that was poached from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in Democratic Republic of Congo and brought to the Senkwekwe Orphan Gorilla Center at Virunga National Park.
Luanne Cadd
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 21, 2012
A baby Grauer’s gorilla that was poached from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in Democratic Republic of Congo is weighed at the Senkwekwe Orphan Gorilla Center at Virunga National Park.
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Sept. 15, 2012
A baby Grauer’s gorilla that was poached from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in Democratic Republic of Congo stands next to a caretaker at the Senkwekwe Orphan Gorilla Center at Virunga National Park.
Luanne Cadd
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 21, 2012
A baby Grauer’s gorilla that was poached from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in Democratic Republic of Congo sleeps with a caretaker at Senkwekwe Orphan Gorilla Center at Virunga National Park.
Luanne Cadd
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AFP/Getty Images
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