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July 6, 2012
Wild horses are rounded up in the hills on the eve of the Rapa Das Bestas (Taming of the Beasts) festival in Sabucedo, Spain. During the three-day festival, wild horses are rounded up and wrestled to the ground by hand to have their manes and tails sheared.
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Omi, a cheetah cub, watches during the Breakfast with the Beasts event at the Wildlife Conservation Center at White Oak in Yulee, Fla. The morning featured a breakfast buffet followed by a cheetah-run demonstration and a tour of the 600-acre White Oak.
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A flamingo cleans its feathers in a pond at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna.
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Two pelicans that were rescued by a Lebanese fisherman, Abed Ibrik, wait to be fed in the Lebanese port city of Sidon. Ibrik named one of the pelicans Mahrouma, which means "deprived" in Arabic, since she can no longer fly after she was shot in the wing by a hunter while flying over Sidon four years ago.
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A hyacinth macaw snuggles up to a bell hanging in his habitat at the Montgomery Zoo in Montgomery, Ala. The parrot is a native of Bolivia and Brazil.
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American actress Maggie Q swims with an endangered whale shark off Cancun, Mexico. As an ambassador for international conservation group WildAid, Maggie Q was in Cancun to publicize the plight of sharks threatened by demand for shark fin soup in the same week that China announced a ban on shark fin from all official banquets.
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A walrus named Neseyka swims in the new aquarium in the Hamburg Hagenbeck zoo in Germany.
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A penguin swims in a water tank at an aquarium in Tokyo.
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A dog attempts to walk inside an underwater treadmill for pets during a media preview for the 2012 Taipei Pet Show at Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Poodles wear custom-made wedding suits and dresses during a media preview for the 2012 Taipei Pet Show.
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A hippopotamus named Cindy opens her mouth near a sprinkling hose at the Philadelphia Zoo.
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A polar bear named Coldilocks sticks out her tongue to feel the cold sprinkling water at the Philadelphia Zoo.
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A sun bear reacts to triple-digit temperatures at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha.
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A newborn tapir cub goes on its first walk with its mother in the outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany,.
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Rare albino hedgehogs are photographed in a pet shop in Johannesburg. The nocturnal animals will be part of the World of Cats, Dogs and Pet Exhibition at the end of the month.
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Naturalist John Ham holds a white-nosed coati during a program titled “Animal Tales: Creatures of the Night” at the Garrard County Public Library in Lancaster, Ky.
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Tori, a 15-year-old orangutan, smokes a cigarette inside her cage at Satwa Taru Jurug zoo in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia. Zookeepers said they plan to move Tori, who learned to smoke about a decade ago by imitating people, away from visitors who regularlys throw lit cigarettes into her cage.
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