Financial crisis and Animal pictures of the week

Financial crisis and Animal pictures of the week

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Animal pictures of the week

Sibu, an orangutan, returns to Dublin Zoo after seven years in Rhenen, the Netherlands. He was on-loan to the Dutch zoo for a breeding programme... Picture: PA

...he returns to baby orangutan, Mujer Picture: PA

Sabele, an extremely rare melanistic barn owl, left, and Petra, a normal barn owl, at the Hereford Barn Owl Rescue sanctuary. The chances of a barn owl being born black are 1 in 100,000 Picture: SWNS.COM

Sandy the seal, who was found exhausted on a Somerset beach, swims in his rehabilitation tank at a secret World Wildlife Rescue centre Picture: RICHARD AUSTIN

A common kingfisher flies out of a pool of water with a fish in his beak...
Picture: GETTY

...Germany's environmental protection organisations NABU and LBV nominated the common kingfisher as Bird of the Year 2009 Picture: GETTY

Autumnal leaves and rutting red deer in Ashton Park, Bristol Picture: DAILY TELEGRAPH

20-week-old roe deer Bramble and 7-year-old fox Roxy take their daily walk in a nearby park with Stacey Clark, from the Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary in Nuneaton
Picture: PA

Anjana, a two-and-a-half-year-old chimpanzee, looks after his new best friend, a 21-day-old white tiger cub, at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Picture: BARCROFT MEDIA

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin shows a tiger cub to journalists at his Novo Ogaryovo residence. The two-and-a-half month old female tiger was presented to Putin on his birthday Picture: REUTERS

Children look at a Bengal tiger at a zoo in Malabon north of Manila, Philippines
Picture: REUTERS (n.b. see yesterday's post about a window licker)