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Imaginatively groomed dogs take part in a pet beauty show during the sixth China Pet Fair in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province
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A female dog feeds its puppy and a Siberian tiger cub at Hangzhou Wildlife Zoo in Chin. The tiger cub, called Lucky, was born a month ago. As its mother refuses to feed Lucky, staff members of the zoo selected a dog to raise it...
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...Lucky the Siberian tiger cub plays with a puppy at Hangzhou Wildlife Zoo
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Cadbury and Mocca, a couple of cheeky wombats at a wildlife centre in Melbourne, spot a camera and make a beeline for it before clambering all over it and sticking their noses in every nook and cranny...
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...Orphaned baby Wombat, Mocca, has been in the care of Wildlife Victoria since July, after its mother was killed by a car
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Baby elephants Luk Chai and Pathi Harn play before they meet the newest and yet unnamed baby elephant at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. The zoo'ss elephant keepers have completed the introduction of the newborn, who was born on November 2, to the calves and other adult females in the herd...
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...Baby elephants Luk Chai and Pathi Harn meet the newest and as yet unnamed baby elephant at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney
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A young guanaco is nursed by her mother Hannah in their enclosure at the zoo in Berlin. The female calf was born in the zoo on October 17
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An elephant walks on a tightrope at an animal park on the outskirts of Bangkok. Tightrope walking elephants have become the latest must-see animal trick in Thailand. The fully-grown beasts have been trained to walk across reinforced ropes in front of tourists at the controversial Safari World near Bangkok
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A street performer coaxes a monkey and goat to perform for children in the Sadiq Abad neighbourhood, Rawalpindi, Punjab province, Pakistan
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A mandrill seems to flash a rude gesture towards photographer Mark Rogers at the San Francisco zoo. However, the animal suffers from arthritis and is unable to lower his middle finger
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An owl seems to wink at the camera. Wildlife photographer Mark Hancox captured the wink after waiting for four days in a specially built hide just yards from a rusty metal pole the owl used as a perch on a private farm near his home in Worcestershire
A keeper brushes a hippo's teeth at the Shanghai Zoo. The hippopotamus has its teeth cleaned three times a week to reduce the chance of mouth diseases.
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A bear chases a fox in Alaska. Jamie Johnson and his wife Lisa were on a remote Alaskan beach, on their way back from an expedition tracking grizzly bears. While they were waiting for a boat to pick them up the huge bear approached the team. From out of shrubs near the beach a fox appeared between them and the bear and the pair began a game of chase
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A bear strikes a human-style pose for tourists as he models for the camera. The brown bear seemed to smile with his arms crossed for photographer Maria Dryfhout while she was on a family day trip to the John Ball Park Zoo in Michigan, USA
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Two brown bears cubs happily wrestle with each other in a forest in Suomussalmi, Finland in this picture taken from the 2010 Wild Wonders of Europe Book. Like any little boys there's apparently nothing they like better than a little rough and tumble. With playful nips and paws flying the brothers attempt to establish just who is boss
Twin girls look at 11-day-old, lion cubs at a city zoo in Stavropol, Russia. A lioness at the zoo gave birth to four cubs, two male and two female
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A mother monkey feeds her baby at Emei Mountain Park, Sichuan Province, China
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A duck appears to sport a Marilyn Monroe style hairdo, with her head feathers perfectly preened into a fetching bouffant. Amateur photographer Rainey Shuler snapped the crested duck at the Willow Springs Pond in Soulsbyville, Northern California. She said the bird was known locally as the George Washington Duck as it bears a resemblance to the former American President
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A red-billed oxpecker eats a tick on a donkey inside an enclosure at the Mokopane Biodiversity Conservation Centre in Mokopane, South Africa
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A mallard keeps an eye on her unseasonal brood of ducklings, hatched at the Attenborough Nature Reserve, Nottinghamshire
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An erect-crested penguin watches as Richard Tesore, head of the NGO Rescate Fauna Marina, holds a baby La Plata river dolphin in Piriapolis, Uruguay. The dolphin, which was found on the beach in the city four days ago, is recovering at the reserve from injuries believed to have been caused by a fishing net
