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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Animal pictures of the week: 25 September 2009

Animal pictures of the week: 25 September 2009

Eye, eye: A sorry looking thing...

This is Lucy the cross-eyed Western Screech Owl. She was discovered under her nest site in Santa Barbara, California. Both her eyes had been punctured by a predator, possibly a small hawk or a corvid Picture: REX FEATURES

Anything that squirrel can do I can do better...

A chipmunk is seen eating on a dwarf stone pine at Mount Asahi, the tallest mountain in Japan's nothern island of Hokkaido Picture: REUTERS

Say cheese!

A cheeky wild leopard cub who made off with a wildlife photgrapher's camera during a fashion shoot at the Ranthambhore national park, India Picture: CATERS NEWS

Three-month-old tiger cub Kinwah with German shepherd dog Rumble who has taken on the role of protective older brother. They are pictured at Mogo Zoo in Australia where Kinwah was born Picture: DEAN MARZOLLA / NEWSPIX / REX FEATURES

A keeper holds a caracal baby named Lilly in her enclosure in an animal park in Berlin Picture: AFP/GETTY

High of the Tiger

Tanvir, a two-year-old tiger, refuses to come down from the top platform of an activity tower at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm in Wraxall near Bristol. It is thought he is too frightened to come back down Picture: PA

Peek-a-boo

A driver pulled over when he heard loud miaowing coming from the rear of his motor as he drove to work in Sankt Poelten, Austria. Mechanics spent three hours dismantling the car and found Gussie, a neighbour's kitten, in the engine Picture: EUROPICS[CEN]

1 comment:

CherryPie said...

That tiger picture reminds me of a cat on the house opposite to me. It got so scared on the roof that it couldn't even climb into the window that was just above the roof. When the owners tried to help it out, it sat just out of reach because that was nearer to the ground!