Our favorite animal photos from this week's news stories.
A baby rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) touches the face of a tiger cub as they play together at a zoo in Hefei, Anhui province, August 2, 2012.
Water sprays from killer whales which perform during a show at the Marineland aquatic park in Antibes July 31, 2012.
Animal keeper Anton Geissenbacher holds a baby South American snapping turtle (Chelydra acutirostris) at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna July 31, 2012. 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 were bred in captivity. According to Geissenbacher, these snapping turtles are a rare species with nearly no information available about their about life, reproduction and population size.
A Great Pyrenees dog surveys a flock of sheep near Les Diablerets July 31, 2012. Swiss farmers use Great Pyrenees dogs to protect their cattle from wolves. In early 2012, the Swiss Federal Office for Environment counted five wolves have entered the country out of the 70 to 200 that live in France and Italy. Picture taken July 31, 2012
A four-day-old baby sea lion is pictured at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna July 31, 2012.
Leopards cross a dirt road before heading into a jungle at the Yala National Park in Yala, about 300 km (190 miles) from central Colombo, July 22, 2012.
Two three-month-old cheetah cubs play over a container of water, while on public view at the National Zoo, in Washington, on Saturday, July 28, 2012. The cubs are trying out their first week on limited view to the public.
An owl is seen at Jordan's zoo near Amman July 26, 2012.
Two one-week-old white lion cubs are seen at an enclosure at Parque Loro Zoo in Puebla July 24, 2012. Three white lion cubs were born on July 18 but only two survived at the facilities of the park, local media reported.
Black face Sri Lankan monkeys drink water from a lake at Yala National Park in Yala, about 300 km (190 miles), from central Colombo, July 22, 2012.
In this photo taken Thursday, July 19, 2012, Barbara Watkins, an animal keeper in the Reptile Discovery Center of the National Zoo, holds a five-day-old Cuban crocodile hatchling in Washington. Two hatchlings were born from surprise eggs laid by a 50-something-year old Cuban crocodile at the National Zoo.
No comments:
Post a Comment