Animal pictures of the week

Valkyrie · #1 06-29-2009, 05:54 AM

Three day old "Primo", a new born baby zebra with its mother inside the Savana area of Rome's Bioparco Zoo

A monkey drinks water from a wayside tap on a hot summer afternoon in Shimla, India

Lin Hui, a seven-year old giant panda mother plays with her unnamed four-week old cub at the Chiang Mai zoo in Thailand

Newborn baby Tapir and his mother at Berlin Zoo, Germany

Red panda mom Shan Tou curls up with her triplet babies at the Red River Zoo in Fargo, North Dakota

Lynx cubs at the captive breeding center of the Donana National Park, southern Spain

A two-month-old golden monkey cub in Shennongjia Golden Monkey Research Center, in central China's Hubei Province

A man holds onto a goat as it is being bathed in the sea during San Juan in Puerto de La Cruz, on Spain's Canary Island of Tenerife

A pet dog gets a haircut in Manila's Makati financial district

Copper a nine week old Cocker Spaniel during a photocall where the spaniel was handed over to the charity, Cancer & Biodetection Dogs by Strathclyde Police at the Scottish Police Dog Training Centre

A young clouded leopard cub at Jardin des Plantes Zoological in Paris

A chimpanzee eats a piece of watermelon to try to cool down as temperatures sore at the Taiyuan Zoo in China

A trainer wearing a traditional Vega (L) costume performs with a Beluga at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, Japan

One of the six tiger cubs born in Harbin, China

Three baby Fennecs are seen at Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo

Two ostrich chicks hatch out of their eggs at Mhou ostrich farm in Ruelzheim, Germany

Hundreds of vultures surround retired sailor Jose Ramon Moragrega in Valderrobres, before noisily feasting on the dead rabbits which he dumps on a patch of gravel from a red wheelbarrow

A 32 day old toco toucan in the Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

A Bengal Tiger roars at the Mangaung Zoo Mangaung Zoo Bloemfontein, South Africa

BABY BOO · #2 06-29-2009, 08:35 AM

Great pics!!!!

my fav is the monkey eating the watermellon, cute!

mummyliz · #3 06-29-2009, 08:37 AM

Love the pictures Val.

Summerrain · #4 06-29-2009, 08:54 AM

I thought the fennecs were absolutely adorable! OMGsh!!!! I want one!

Naomi · #5 06-29-2009, 02:31 PM

Thank you

Valkyrie · #6 07-07-2009, 11:17 AM

Animals keeping cool with ice lollies in the summer heat

Squirrel monkeys examine the fruit ice blocks in their enclosure at the Cotswold Wildlife Park

Lion-tailed Macaque monkeys, from South West India, are given ice-cream as a treat in hot weather at Bristol Zoo Gardens

Lemurs cool off with ice cream at Drayton Manor Theme Park near Tamworth

Meerkats are given fruit ice blocks at Cotswold Wildlife Park

A black rhinoceros licks a giant ice cube during hot weather at Chester Zoo

Lions at Knowsley Safari Park taking a dip in the bird pond to cool off

Staff at Eagle Heights wildlife park in Eynsford, Kent, discovered that Wilma the porcupine loved strawberry ice lollies

Billy the eagle owl has a shower to keep him cool in the hot weather

Baby elephants cool off by showering in the pool at Chester Zoo

Otters cool off with some specially made fish ice lollies at an aquarium in Southsea, Hampshire

A sea otter tries to cool down near an ice block at Antwerp's zoo in Belgium

A chimpanzee enjoys a piece of ice filled with peanuts and fruit bites in Amersfoort Zoo, The Netherlands

An ostrich is splashed with water to help cool down at the Jinhaikou Zoo in Haikou, China

Valkyrie · #7 07-07-2009, 11:24 AM

Animal pictures of the week: 3 July 2009

A mother cat is raising and feeding an adopted orphaned puppy whose mother died giving birth, in east China...

...The cat cares for the puppy and breastfeeds it along with her own kittens

At the Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo in Jiangsu, a lion and a tiger buddy up as they go for a cooling dip

The two beasts headed for a lake and playfully nuzzled each other as they enjoyed a swim

Tatenda the rhino and Poggles the warthog became inseparable at Imire Safari Ranch in Wedza, Zimbabwe, after the pair were orphaned at the same time when their parents were illegally slaughtered by poachers

...Experts say the 10 ton, 40-foot long, finback died after straying too close to the beach, and its tongue probably swelled up because of gases created in the decomposition process. An autopsy will be carried out after the weekend

A toad eats venomous snake - believed to be a banded krait - which had tried to attack it at Qingcheng Mountain park in Sichuan, China

Photos of fat Macaca Mulatta monkeys, taken on May 4 2008 (top) and June 6 2009 at the Ohama Park in Japan. The overweight monkeys have succesfully reduced their weight, thanks to a diet. The heaviest male monkey, weighing 30kg, lost more than 10kg

A chimpanzee sits on a swing at Alipur zoo in Calcutta, India

Macaques at the zoo in Guiyang City, China

A macaque drinks tap water to cool down in Jiyuan, Henan province in China

Mok, a three-week old male albino barking deer, is shown in its enclosure during a news conference introducing a new member of the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand

A baby pygmy hippopotamus, Leishan (whose name means 'gift" in West Africa) with mother Ellen at Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland

A kangaroo sticks her head in another kangaroo's pouch to have a look at her joey at Ballarat Wildlife Park in Victoria, Australia

A joey tests mum's patience as he explores his new surrounds at Ballarat Wildlife Park, in Victoria, Australia

A kangaroo at the zoo in Heidelberg, southwestern Germany, lazes in the sun

A crafty sea lion was caught on camera trying to hijack a police boat in Newport Harbour, California. Using his flippers to play with the throttle, the animal was able to take control of the boat, steer it and even sound a siren

A baby sea lion is kissed by its mother in its enclosure at Munich's Hellabrunn zoo

Five of 59 baby seals wait for their food at the seal breeding station in Norddeich, Germany

Dino, a 15-year-old male California sea lion at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska, gets fed a handful of fish by a zoo keeper

A California sea lion is pictured at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany

A white pigeon with an extra set of wings on its legs is seen in Shenyang, China

A peacock spreads its feathers at Alipur zoo in Calcutta, India

Naomi · #8 07-08-2009, 11:18 AM

Bet my baby is cuter than yours
No way, take a look

Valkyrie · #9 07-13-2009, 06:52 AM

Diving with sharks: photographer takes close-up pictures of lemon sharks

Open wide! Staring down into the lens, a feeding lemon shark is caught on camera

Seen here near Tiger Bay in the Grand Bahama Bank, underwater photographer Eric Cheng has spent the last eight years getting up close and personal with sharks

In order to get these dramatic images Eric placed his lens inches from the open jaws

Despite their menacing demeanour, lemon sharks feed mainly on bonefish and molluscs, Eric is careful not to place himself in unnecessary danger...

... The split images showing the shark's face out of the water are taken from the boat because it is a bad idea to be at the surface when sharks are in the water...

..."It's a vulnerable place to be, and sharks almost always investigate floating objects"

Eric believes that "underwater photography is all about being as close as possible...

..."Most of these shots were taken mere inches away from my camera's dome port (the glass element at the front) as the lemon sharks are lured in with fish"

Eric has been going to the Bahamas to photograph sharks since 2002 because it is one of the best places on the planet to capture images of the animals . It is typical to photograph five or six species of large sharks in a single trip

Aside from this photpgraphic exploits, Eric is the editor and publisher of Wetpixel.com, and is technical advisor and photographer for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Valkyrie · #10 07-13-2009, 06:57 AM

Animal pictures of the week: 10 July 2009

Zebra finches perch on an electric guitar in an aviary in Nantes as part of a creation by French artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot named From Here to Ear. The project features 40 zebra finches which are let loose in a space rigged with hanging harpsichord strings and coat hangers all connected to an audio system. As the audience enters the space, the birds move and perch on different structures which trigger unique ambient sound patterns.

A meerkat soaks up the sun's rays in its compound at Chorzow zoo, Poland

A young male elephant calf born at Sydney's Taronga Zoo on July 4 to mother Thong Dee, a former Bangkok street elephant, lies on the floor of a nursing stall at the zoo

A three-month-old baby Southern Tamandua named Konbu stands on its mother Tae's back at Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo

Alkoomie, an eight-month-old baby koala, with her mother Alguna, at Beauval zoo in Saint-Aignan, central France

A seal pup eats a herring at the seal station in Friedrichskoog on the North Sea coast, northern Germany

One of the two unnamed, four week old twin red pandas at Galloway Wildlife Conservation Park near Kirkcudbright in Scotland

Tai Shan the giant panda watches an apple fall off the top of his cake during his fourth birthday celebration at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC

Lin Hui, a seven-year old giant panda mother, lays down on the floor behind her unnamed 43-day-old cub at the Chiang Mai zoo in Northern Thailand

A tiger climbs up a tree trunk to get a piece of meat at the Serengeti-Park animal park in Hodenhagen, northern Germany...

...Eight tigers, seven females and this male, were brought in October 2008 from a bankrupt zoo in Portugal to the German zoo and saved from starvation

Odin, a white Bengal tiger, dives for a piece of meat at the opening of the new Odin's Temple of the Tiger exhibit at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California

Luba el-Helw, an Egyptian lion tamer, feeds a lion with her mouth at the National Circus in Cairo

A three-year-old endangered female Carpathian lynx named Riki is seen in Kiev Zoo, Ukraine

A male snow leopard cub called Altai yawns, during his official presentation at the zoo in Berlin. Altai was born on April 25

Toby the kitten who survived after being trapped in a washing machine for a full cycle in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire

An adult and a young South African porcupine (Hystrix africae australis) at the zoo in Basel, Switzerland

Ostrich chicks walk in their enclosure at the Berlin Zoo

Luray · #11 07-13-2009, 07:47 AM

Toby the very clean kitten!

Valkyrie · #12 07-27-2009, 06:35 AM

A snowy owl hatchling swallows a mouse at the Geiselwind leisure park in Germany

Four snowy owl hatchlings sit in a basket at Geiselwind leisure park in Germany

A tiny hedgehog, just over an inch and a half long, after it was rescued by St Tiggywinkles Wildlife hospital in Bucks at just one day old

A pair of newborn panda twins are seen at the Research Base of the Giant Panda Breeding Centre in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China

Tiny, a mouse created from stem cells created from mouse skin, looks around on a sofa in China

Chhouk, an orphaned baby Asian elephant, who can walk after being fitted with a prosthetic foot. The three-year-old was discovered roaming the forests alone in forests of Cambodia. His front left foot was caught in a poacher's snare.

Guests at Giraffe Manor in the shadow of Kenya?s Mount Kilimanjaro can get up close and personal with the world's tallest mammal. Part of the experience involves guests sharing the hotel with the animals

Leo the Lamb meets one of his new friends, Alice the kitten, at Lort Smith Animal Hospital, Melbourne. The stray lamb turned up unexpectedly at the inner-city animal hospital

A panther scratches itself at Troja Zoo in Prague

A clouded leopard cub sits in a cage in Rangamati, Bangladesh

Umka, the 65-day-old Ussuri tiger cub, is seen in a zoo in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. The Ussuri tiger is one of the local names for the rare Siberian tiger

A male tiger is released into the waters of the river Harikhali at the Sundarbans delta forest, about 150 km (93 miles) south of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata

A white tiger plays in the water during a hot summer's day in the Moscow zoo

A monkey eats an icepop as a treat to cool off at a zoo in Hefei, in eastern China's Anhui province

Stuart Little the white wombat is, just like his famous movie namesake, very much part of a family. The white wombat was orphaned as a baby, and now lives with the family who run the Maryknoll Wildlife Shelter in Melbourne, Australia.

Two of four new-born Binturongs, also known as the Asian Bearcats, sit in a basket at the Tierpark zoo during their presentation to the media in Berlin, Germany

A startled hippotomus dashes from his hiding place, Shire River, Liwonde National Park, Malawi, Africa

A man with a hyena on a leash entertains residents in Rinka village of Katsina State, North-west Nigeria

Seals play at a seal-breeding station in Norddeich, northern Germany

A pig waits for food in a household yard in Sagua La Grande, in the province of Villaclara in central Cuba

A cow in a field in Wadhurst, East Sussex, with a horn which has grown backwards, pressing against its forehead

A boxer rests as dachshund puppies play near it in Sagua La Grande,in the province of Santa Clara in central Cuba

A little dog who had his ears and tail cut off in a brutal attack has become a star in Australia. Eight-week-old puppy Buckley had his ears and tail hacked off, most likely with scissors or shears, in a barbaric attack.

A female Lemur and her baby perch on a tree limb at the Bronx Zoo's "Madagascar!" exhibit in New York

Parakeets feed from a bird feeder in a domestic back garden in Charshalton Beeches in London, England

A flamingo drinks water at Erfurt zoo, central Germany

Summerrain · #13 07-27-2009, 08:44 AM

That mouse was made from stem cells? Amazing!

And, I got a hippo playing hide and seek!