Ache, a Sumatran tiger cub, drinks at the Melbourne Zoo in Melbourne, Australia.
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Richard Tesore, the head of the NGO “S.O.S. Rescate Fauna Marina,” feeds a female baby La Plata dolphin in the sea of Piriapolis, east of Montevideo. The dolphin, with its umbilical cord still attached, was found beached near Montevideo city and was sent to the NGO.
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A Brown Coastal Bear charges powerfully across the river in Bristol Bay in an attepmt to catch a salmon in Alaska.
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An unnamed newly born Bornean orangutan is held by her mother Kalim at their zoo enclosure at the Los Angeles zoo.
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A lioness waits to be fed at The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado. The non-profit sanctuary is a 720-acre refuge for large carnivores that have been confiscated from illegal or abusive situations and is currently home to over 290 lions, tigers, bears, wolves and other large carnivores. It is the oldest and largest carnivore sanctuary in the United States, having been in operation since 1980.
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A large number of tortoises swim with koi at a pond at Guiyuan Temple in Wuhan, China. All the tortoises were released by visitors in recent years.
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Seagulls perform spectacular moves as they fly along the sund promenade in Stralsund, Germany.
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Eight-day-old baby giraffe Malik looks over to his mother Kiburi at Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany.
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Lesser flamingoes fly over Lake Natron. Salmon-colored clouds of flamingoes sweeping overhead is a common sight at east Africa’s Rift Valley lakes, but the mounds of mud where they lay their eggs are found only here.
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A deer and its fawn enjoy the green pastures at the Mountain Gate Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif.
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New born dolphin named Doerrte swims with its mother Delphi at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany. The little bottlenose dolphin is one of three dolphin babies, that were born at the same time last month at the zoo in the Ruhr valley. Mother Delphi was also born in Europe’s biggest dolphinarium in Duisburg.
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Young meerkats look on at the Zoological Park in Wroclaw, Poland. Under the watchful eye of their mother, the two-week-old meerkats are learning to dig and ‘stand guard’.
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A large number of tortoises are seen at a pond at Guiyuan Temple on in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China. All the tortoises were released by visitors in recent years.
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Coyotes claimed to be cloned by disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk and his team are shown at a farm in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea.
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A sand tiger shark (Carcharhinus taurus) and other fish species swim inside a tank at the Palma Aquarium on the the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca.
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A tiger leaps from a pool at the Oakland Zoo, in Oakland, Calif. This tiger is one of four females that were hand-raised from birth by a Texas couple whose marriage ended in divorce and found the four adult tigers to be too expensive to support.
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This cheeky young kangaroo won’t be misbehaving again after what looked like a stern telling off from his long-suffering mom. In this picture, she grabs the joey by the shoulders in what looks like an attempt to catch his attention.
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A golden retriever dressed as a fireman enjoys the breeze atop Bear Mountain in New York.
Luiz C. Ribeiro
