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July 29, 2012
A young seal named Fips looks out of a tub at the seal nursery in Friedrichskoog, northern Germany. The animal was found at a shipyard in Hamburg at the beginning of July.
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July 29, 2012
Two seals swim at the seal nursery in Friedrichskoog, northern Germany.
Daniel Bockwoldt
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Aug. 2, 2012
Newly named white African lion cubs Lemon, left, and Fintan rest in the heat at the Toronto Zoo.
Nathan Denette
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Canadian Press via AP
Aug. 7, 2012
A male barasingha, born on June 24, walks alongside his mother at the swamp deer enclosure at the zoo in Berlin. The barasingha is a deer species that is threatened with extinction.
Christof Stache
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Aug. 3, 2012
A giraffe bull named Lengai, left, cuddles with giraffe doe Limber during warm temperatures in the zoo in Erfurt, central Germany.
Jens Meyer
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AP
Aug. 3, 2012
A black dehorned rhinoceros is followed by a calf at the Bona Bona game reserve, about 125 miles southeast of Johannesburg. South Africa has seen a devastating increase in poaching in recent years as black-market demand for rhino horns has grown. Last year poachers killed 448 rhinos, up from 333 in 2010 and just 13 in 2007. Heightened security measures have failed to stop the criminal syndicates that officials say are responsible for the killing. The animals' distinctive horns are hacked off to be smuggled to the lucrative Asian black market, where they are believed to have powerful healing properties.
Stephane de Sakutin
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Aug. 6, 2012
Rungwe, the first elephant born from artificial insemination in France, takes his first steps near his mother, N'Dala, at the Beauval Zoo in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, France. The African elephant calf, named after a volcano in Tanzania, was born on July 20 after a gestation of about 23 months.
Jean-Francois Monier
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Aug. 3, 2012
A 2-month-old Barbary ape, center, plays with the hair of its mother during warm temperatures in the zoo in Erfurt, central Germany.
Jens Meyer
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AP
August 2, 2012
Lisimba, right, a 2-month-old Hamlyn's monkey, is pictured with its mother, Karmina, at the zoo in Mulhouse, eastern France.
Sebastien Bozon
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Aug. 7, 2012
A 7-day-old, six-gram siamang gibbon is carried by its mother, Jamby, at the zoo in Ramat Gan, Israel. Siamang gibbons are found mainly on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula.
Uriel Sinai
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Aug. 5, 2012
Penguins are seen in their enclosure at the Troja Zoo in Prague.
Michal Cizek
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Aug. 5, 2012
Two great hornbills fight for food at the Troja Zoo in Prague.
Michal Cizek
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Aug. 5, 2012
A turtle rests on the shell of another turtle at the Troja Zoo in Prague.
Michal Cizek
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 2, 2012
Two tawny frogmouth chicks, who hatched on July 9 and 11, are being hand-reared by zookeepers at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill., because the parents abandoned the nest after only a few weeks of incubating the eggs. To give the chicks a chance at surviving, a decision was made to pull the eggs and put them in an incubator, located in an off-exhibit area at the zoo.
Jim Schulz
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Chicago Zoological Society via AP
July 31, 2012
A male great gray owl sits in the owls' enclosure at the zoo in Berlin. Five female great grey owls hatched at the zoo on May 18. The great gray owl chicks, their parents and conspecifics living at the zoo eat up to 30 mice every day. In the wild, the animals live in the Northern Hemisphere and have lemmings and voles on their menu.
Christof Stache
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Aug. 4, 2012
A chameleon is seen in a pet shop in Duisburg, Germany.
Ina Fassbender
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Reuters
July 31, 2012
Zookeeper Anton Geissenbacher holds a baby South American snapping turtle at the zoo in Vienna. Four of these snapping turtles, which originally lived in Costa Rica and Colombia, were hatched in July at the zoo, marking the first time this species was bred in captivity. According to Geissenbacher, these snapping turtles are a rare species about which very little is known.
Herwig Prammer
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Reuters
July 31, 2012
A rescued baby pangolin is released into the forest by a government wildlife and conservation officer in Indonesia’s North Sumtran Karo District. Indonesian police discovered 85 endangered pangolins at a bus station in the city of Medan on July 28; most of them were still alive, despite having been crammed into 14 sacks by suspected smugglers, according to Yoris Marzuki, chief detective of the local police. The animals, also known as scaly anteaters, are prized in China and Vietnam as food and medicine.
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Aug. 3, 2012
Red panda Ole explores his new open air enclosure at the zoo in Hanover, Germany. The animal was brought to Hanover to meet the 3-year-old female red panda Shanam, in the zookeepers’ hopes that they would mate.
Holger Hollemann
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Aug. 7, 2012
Diana, an Amur leopard — also known as the Far Eastern leopard, the Korean leopard and the Manchurian leopard — stretches in her enclosure at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in a suburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Diana is taking part in a breeding program with a male leopard, Kostik, who was brought from another zoo in the city of Abakan. According to zoo employees, 25 to 35 Amur leopards remain in the wild, making the species one of the most endangered in the world.
Ilya Naymushin
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Reuters
August 2, 2012
Chikita, a 5-month-old tiger, lives in the zoo in Mulhouse, eastern France.
Sebastien Bozon
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Aug. 3, 2012
Monty, one of the Wadworth Brewery’s three Shire horses, is given a pint of beer outside the Raven Inn in Poulton, England, as he starts his annual two-week holiday. Hundreds of people gathered to watch as Monty, along with fellow horses Prince and Max — who are employed by the brewery to deliver beer 50 weeks a year to pubs throughout Wiltshire county — were each given a pint before being released into a field near Devizes, England. The brewery has been employing Shire horses for more than 100 years to deliver beers to local inns and hostelries. Prince, Monty and Max are three of the last remaining working Shires left in the United Kingdom’s brewing industry.
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Aug. 3, 2012
From left, Monty, Prince and Max, the Wadworth Brewery’s Shire horses, run in a field after being given a pint of beer outside the Raven Inn in Poulton, England. The quaffing marked the start of their annual two-week holiday near Devizes, England.
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Aug. 5, 2012
A French bulldog stands in Bruges’ Grote Markt in the capital city of Belgium’s West Flanders province.
Yves Herman
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Reuters
Aug. 5, 2012
This squirrel, stuck in a manhole cover in a street in Isernhagen, Germany, was finally rescued and set free by the police after several failed attempts with olive oil.
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