Sunday, April 7, 2013

Animal Photos Of The Week: Tigers, Capybaras, Elephants And More Pictures

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    Valentina, a two-month old puma cub, bites the nose of a carer at the Attica Zoological Park in Athens, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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    A capybara rests on one of the banks of the Paraguay river, in Corumba, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul gateway to the Pantanal, on April 4, 2013. Often referred to as the world?s largest freshwater wetland system, the Pantanal, is a stunning biodiversity sanctuary which extends through millions of hectares in central-western Brazil, eastern Bolivia and eastern Paraguay. It includes sanctuaries for migratory birds, nursery grounds for aquatic life, and refuges for such creatures as the yacare caiman, deer, and jaguar. Some 4,500 different species live in the Pantanal. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (4/1-4/7)

    A capybara rests on one of the banks of the Paraguay river, in Corumba, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul gateway to the Pantanal, on April 4, 2013. Often referred to as the world?s largest freshwater wetland system, the Pantanal, is a stunning biodiversity sanctuary which extends through millions of hectares in central-western Brazil, eastern Bolivia and eastern Paraguay. It includes sanctuaries for migratory birds, nursery grounds for aquatic life, and refuges for such creatures as the yacare caiman, deer, and jaguar. Some 4,500 different species live in the Pantanal. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (4/1-4/7)

    Water trickles down the head of a 38-year-old female elephant named Mali at the Manila Zoo, in the Philippines on Thursday, April 4, 2013. Zoo workers said they are showering the animals more frequently and boosting their drinking water with electrolytes as temperatures rise during the summer months. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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    Amur leopard Xembalo looks through the bars of its enclosure at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany, Wednesday April 3, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa,Hendrik Schmidt)

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    The new red panda at the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium munches on food given to it by it's keeper in the new exhibit on Thursday, April 4, 2013, in Pittsburgh. This panda is native to the mountains of Nepal, Myanmar, and central China. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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    A carer feeds milk to three-week old lion cub Akinta at the Attica Zoological Park in Athens, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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    One year old tigers play in a small pond at the Indian Nandankana Zoological park in Bhubaneswar on April 4, 2013. (ASIT KUMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

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    A chimpanzee licks a block of ice as it is given to beat the summer heat at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok Tuesday, April 2, 2013. The weather is turning warmer in Thailand as the country enters its summer season. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (4/1-4/7)

    A giraffe licks a block of ice as it is given to beat the summer heat at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. The weather is turning warmer in Thailand as the country enters its summer season. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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    An Eurasian Eagle Owl sits in its enclosure in Munich's Hellabrunn zoo, Wednesday April 3, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Frank Leonhardt)

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    A Snowy Owl sits in its enclosure in the amusement park Geiselwind, southern Germany Thursday April 4, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa,Karl-Josef Hildenbrand)

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    A male Indian peacock photographed at amusement park Geiselwind, southern Germany Thursday April 4, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Karl-Josef Hildenbrand)

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    A black condor eats a dead alligator floating in the Paraguay river, in Corumba, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul gateway to the Pantanal, on April 4, 2013. Often referred to as the world?s largest freshwater wetland system, the Pantanal, is a stunning biodiversity sanctuary which extends through millions of hectares in central-western Brazil, eastern Bolivia and eastern Paraguay. It includes sanctuaries for migratory birds, nursery grounds for aquatic life, and refuges for such creatures as the yacare caiman, deer, and jaguar. Some 4,500 different species live in the Pantanal. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (4/1-4/7)

    A picture taken on April 5, 2013 shows a smooth-hound shark (C) in the aquarium of Talmont-Saint-Hilaire, western France. Three females gave birth in captivity to twenty five smooth-hound sharks measuring betwen 20 and 30 cm (8 to 12 inches). The aquarium keeps twelve females caught by fishermen of Les Sables d'Olonne one year ago. (JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD/AFP/Getty Images)

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    Ring-tailed lemurs sit in their enclosure in the zoo in Straubing, southern Germany, Monday March 25, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Armin Weigel)

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    Olivia, a five-year-old Angolan colobus monkey, clutches her baby which was born March 9, at the Brookfield Zoo on March 27, 2013 in Brookfield, Illinois. The infant monkeys are born completely white, turn gray, and then black, their adult coloration, in approximately three months. Angolan colobuses are native to dense rain forests throughout equatorial Africa. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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    Olivia (C), a five-year-old Angolan colobus monkey, clutches her baby which was born March 9, at the Brookfield Zoo on March 27, 2013 in Brookfield, Illinois. The infant monkeys are born completely white, turn gray, and then black, their adult coloration, in approximately three months. Angolan colobuses are native to dense rain forests throughout equatorial Africa. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (3/25-3/31)

    A Southern Rockhopper Penguin is fed by a keeper at the new Polar World at Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich,?Germany, Tuesday March 26, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa,Frank Leonhardt)

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    The yet unnamed male koala joey rides on his mother Goonderrah's back at the Zoo in Duisburg, western Germany on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. The little Koala left his mother's pouch after six months for the first time. The Duisburg Zoo is one of the major breeding units for Koalas in Europe. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (3/25-3/31)

    The yet unnamed male koala joey rides on his mother Goonderrah's back at the Zoo in Duisburg, western Germany on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. The little Koala left his mother's pouch after six months for the first time. The Duisburg Zoo is one of the major breeding units for Koalas in Europe. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (3/25-3/31)

    A photo taken on March 25, 2013 shows a male lion at a zoological park the eastern French city of Amneville. (JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP/Getty Images)

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    Male walrus Odin swims in the Polar Sea enclosure at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg,?Germany, Easter Sunday March 31, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa,Christian Charisius)

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    Female walrus Dyana swims in the Polar Sea enclosure at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg,?Germany, Sunday March 31, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa,Christian Charisius)

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    Young Malayan tapir 'Baru' runs in his enclosure in the zoo of Leipzig. eastern Germany, Wednesday March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Jan Woitas)

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    Melati a female Sumatran Tiger licks her lips after eating a snack of a dead rabbit hidden in a papier mache easter egg, at London Zoo, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Tiger Territory is a newly opened tiger enclosure designed by keepers and conservationists, the zoo is hoping the Indonesian inspired enclosure with climbing trees, a pool for swimming and 2,500square metres to roam will encourage the two tigers to breed. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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    Jae Jae, a male Sumatran Tiger scratches a tree, as the public watch from behind glass, at London Zoo, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Tiger Territory is a newly opened tiger enclosure designed by keepers and conservationists, the zoo is hoping the Indonesian inspired enclosure with climbing trees, a pool for swimming and 2,500square metres to roam will encourage the two tigers to breed. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (3/25-3/31)

    A komodo dragon peers into the camera at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Garden in Los Angeles on March 26, 2013. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

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    An Olive Baboon looks at a piece of snow picked up from the ground in its enclosure at Berlin's Zoologischer Garten zoo March 26, 2013. Low temperatures and snowfall have continued to plague the capital. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (3/25-3/31)

    A photo taken on March 25, 2013 shows a male lion at a zoological park the eastern French city of Amneville. (JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (3/25-3/31)

    A photo taken on March 25, 2013 shows a male lion at a zoological park the eastern French city of Amneville. (JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP/Getty Images)

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    A two-month-old baby Bennett's tree-kangaroo peers out of its mother's pouch at the Zoo in the southern Russian city of Stavropol, on March 28, 2013. (DANIL SEMYONOV/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (3/25-3/31)

    This Wednesday, March 27, 2013 photo shows "Gladys", a 2 month-old Western Lowland Gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden Primate Team Leader Ron Evans says? Gladys? is in good health, developing and growing quickly with loving care from 10 humans imitating a gorilla mother's behavior. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Glenn Hartong)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (3/25-3/31)

    A photo taken on March 25, 2013 shows an Eurasian lynx at a zoological park the eastern French city of Amneville. (JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP/Getty Images)

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    A photo taken on March 25, 2013 shows Eurasian lynxes at a zoological park the eastern French city of Amneville. (JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP/Getty Images)

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    A picture taken on March 25, 2013 shows a blue peacock at the Amneville zoo, eastern France. (JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP/Getty Images)

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    An Eurasian brown bear plays with a strap on March 25, 2013 at a zoological park the eastern French city of Amneville. (JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP/Getty Images)

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    An Eurasian brown bear plays with a strap on March 25, 2013 at a zoological park the eastern French city of Amneville. (JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP/Getty Images)

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    A male gorilla rests at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Garden in Los Angeles on March 26, 2013. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (3/25-3/31)

    A male gorilla shows off at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Garden in Los Angeles on March 26, 2013. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

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    A Desert Bighorn sheep rests at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Garden in Los Angeles on March 26, 2013. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

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    A male gorilla streches at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Garden in Los Angeles on March 26, 2013. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

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    A zebra plays with its dinner at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Garden in Los Angeles on March 26, 2013. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

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    A zebra is pictured at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Garden in Los Angeles on March 26, 2013. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

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    A koala bear is helped by a keeper to climb down at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Garden in Los Angeles on March 26, 2013. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

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    A meerkat checks visitors at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Garden in Los Angeles on March 26, 2013. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

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    Young Asian elephant Anchali throws some dirt on herself at Berlin's Zoologischer Garten zoo March 26, 2013. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)

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    An Asiatic elephant male calf poses under his mother Sammy at Zoomadrid in Madrid on March 28, 2013. The young pachyderm was born on March 2, 2013 at Madrid's zoo. (DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images)

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    Flamingos walk on the grass at Zoomadrid in Madrid on March 28, 2013. (DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (3/25-3/31)

    An Asian lion mother Shirwane (L) takes care of her one and half month babies at Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden of Budapest, on March 28, 2013. The small animals were born on February 15, 2013 in the zoo of the Hungarian capital. The newborn lions are revealed to the public today. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Animal Photos Of The Week (3/25-3/31)

    An Asian lion mother Shirwane (L) sits next to her one and half month babies at Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden of Budapest, on March 28, 2013. The small animals were born on February 15, 2013 in the zoo of the Hungarian capital. The newborn lions are revealed to the public today. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images)

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