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Sunday, April 05, 2009

A selection of animal pictures of the week

A selection of animal pictures of the week


Two deer look through a drive-in liquor store window in Medicine Bow, Wyoming
Picture: AP

Four Asian small-clawed otters that were born at SeaWorld Orlando huddle together
Picture: SEAWORLD ORLANDO

Rare Sumatran tiger cubs make their first appearance at Paignton Zoo in Devon...
Picture: APEX NEWS

...Sumatran tigers are the smallest of all tigers. There are around 400 left in the wild, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where they prey on boars, deer... and tapirs Picture: APEX NEWS

A Royal Bengal tiger is seen at a zoo in Dhaka, Bangladesh Picture: REUTERS

Cloey the dog and her friend Mafusa the cheetah. Riana Van Nieuwenhuizen lives with four cheetahs, a lion cub and two wolves in Bloemfontein, South Africa
Picture: BARCROFT MEDIA

Zookeepers present four lion cubs at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany
Picture: REUTERS

Two geese chatter in the hippo enclosure in the zoo in Berlin...Picture: AP

Nathan Kitching, 6, and Kai Gregory, 5, from Bedfordshire, feed Leelee, a two-year-old elephant calf, at the launch of the Big Five experience at Whipsnade Zoo
Picture: PA

Scientists at the University of Bath are working with the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust to study an endangered large shrew-like mammal that kills its prey with a venomous bite called Hispaniolan solenodon Picture: SWNS

A highly trained rat sniffs out landmines in Mozambique Picture: SWNS

Biborka, a female grey donkey foal, stumbles shortly after she was born to an albino mother at the Puszta Animal Park in Hungary Picture: EPA

Baby golden-headed lion tamarins hold on to their mother as their father looks on in their enclosure in Tropicarium zoo in Budapest, Hungary Picture: EPA

Two joeys look out of a mother wallaby's pouch at the small zoo of Gettorf, northern Germany Picture: AP

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