Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Animals In News

Three eight week old ferret cubs at the Black Mountains Wildlife Park near Hamburg, Germany
An elephant paints a picture for tourists at Mae Sa elephant camp in Chiang Mai province, Thailand
A four-day-old Zedonk, a rare cross between a zebra and a donkey, stands next to her mother at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Lumpkin County, Georgia
Loughlin Deegan, Artistic Director of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival, sits with a Great Dane named Toby dressed as Hamlet at the launch of the festival at the Gaiety Theatre. The festival, which runs from September 30th to October 17th, features a play entitled The Rehearsal, Playing the Great Dane
Photographers take pictures underneath a rescue dog as it jumps across an obstacle during a demonstration by the Engineering Regiment of the PLA for international media at a base located on the outskirts of Beijing
A female cheetah looks out of her open air enclosure at the 'Safari and Hollywood Park Schloss Stukenbrock', Germany. According to information released by the Indian newspaper 'Hindustan Times' India's government has cleared plans to reintroduce the cheetah
A cat shows interest in a frog sitting on a rock in the eastern German town of Sieversdorf
A Sphynx cat named Phoenix and a Chinese Crested dog named Maggie, who appear in the film, attend the premiere of Cats & Dogs, The Revenge of Kitty Galore in Los Angeles
A bonobo lies at the world's only sanctuary for the endangered great ape at Lola Ya Bonobo just outside Congo's capital Kinshasa
Giant panda Ju Xiao holds her newborn cub in her mouth at the Bifengxia panda breeding centre in Yaan, Sichuan Province, China
A baby long-eared bat is hand-reared at Secret Animal Rescue in Somerset. Its ears - not fully formed yet - will eventually sit on the top of its head, not the sides
A baby elephant welcomes another newborn elephant at the Hanover Zoo in Germany
A pair of fledgling barn swallows plead for breakfast from a perch above the seventh hole at the Eugene, Oregon, Country Club
A female Amur leopard cub (Panthera pardus orientalis) looks out of a bucket while it is weighed at the zoo in Leipzig, Eastern Germany
A young aardvark cuddles with its keeper Mario Gruesser in a Berlin zoo, Germany. The young nocturnal mammal, native in the savannahs of Africa, was injured by its mother after its birth in May and has been bottle-fed since then

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