Animals In News.

 

Skidmark the mouse rides a wave on a custom surf board at Surfers Paradise in Queensland, Australia. Shane Willmot has been surfing mice for so long his current surfing stars are the grandchildren of his original surfing mouse troupe Monkeys play in a fountain to keep cool in Huaibei, Anhui province of China A langur quenches its thirst during a hot summer day at Van Vihar national park in Bhopal, India An Indian Rhinoceros yawns as it takes a bath in its pond at the Tierpark Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, Germany A hippo breaks the surface of the water outside Kingspool Luxury Safari Camp in Maun, Botswana An elephant takes a bath at the Oregon Zoo in Portland Two elephants at a waterhole at the Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve in Kwa Zulu-Natal, some 250 km north of Durban Scientists say that most polar bears in captivity at Berlin Zoo, Germany have psychological problems, with Berlin Zoo's superstar Knut probably the worst of all Bengal tiger babies Kico and Rico enjoy a bath in their small pool at the Serengeti animal park in Hodenhagen, central Germany An animal handler holds a two-week old Siberian tiger cub at Kolmarden Zoo, in Kolmarden, Sweden A one-month-old baby snow leopard (Panthera uncia) born at the Parc des Felins, a wildlife park located in Nesles, a suburb outside Paris A two-month-old baby rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus) is seen at the Parc des Felins, a wildlife park located in Nesles, a suburb outside Paris. This park is dedicated to the preservation of endangered cats, including this small wild cat from India and Sri Lanka, which faces a high risk of extinction Messi, the newly born South American peccary at Melbourne Zoo, Australia A prairie dog hugs its one-month-old pup in their enclosure at Salzburg zoo, Austria Two pandas rest at a zoo in Shanghai, China. The pandas, which were moved from Sichuan Province specially for the Shanghai World Expo, will be transferred to Shanghai Safari Park A ring tailed lemur plays with honey coated England footballs at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire A harvest mouse finds a home in a tennis ball. Conservationists hope the old balls will make perfect houses to boost numbers living at Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire A photo issued by the Bio Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of a bee fitted with tiny radio ID tags to monitor their movements as part of research into whether pesticides could be giving the insects brain disorders Subaru, a 4-year-old toy poodle from South Korea, yawns while being groomed during Thailand's 9th International Dog Show in Bangkok Nemo, a Shih Tzu, waits for competition after having had his hair styled for hours as part of intensive grooming ahead of competition on the opening day of the ninth Thailand International Dog Show 2010 at the Impact Convention Centre in Bangkok Oscar, the cat with a pair of prosthetic paws, courtesy of neuro-orthopaedic surgeon Noel Fitzpatrick at Fitzpatrick Referrals in Eashing, Surrey. Oscar was given a pair of new artificial feet in a single surgical procedure by the Surrey-based surgeon. The work of this pioneering vet will be the focus of a new six part documentary series The Bionic Vet, to be broadcast on BBC1 from June 30 A fluorescent Archocentrus nigrofasciatus fish swims in a tank during a press conference organised by the Fisheries Agency of Council of Agriculture in Taipei. Transgenic technology has been used on the fish which can enhance resistance to infection and causes variations in immune-related genes after infection by different bacterial species, say researchers A girafe drinks water as a bird flies over her neck at Kruger National Park in South Africa A marmoset named Franek which has been taken in by the Centre for the Rehabilitation of Protected Animals in Przemysl, Poland. The monkey couldn't settle with several different owners, who found it troublesome, until it found its place in the centre A fledgling white-tailed kite [bottom] grabs a vole from its father 100 feet above the ground in mid-flight. The seven week old bird, who is too young to hunt for itself, perched on a nearby tree with its two siblings waiting for their dad to return with breakfast. It was then a race to the food, with the fastest and most agile youngster snatching the vole with its talons - leaving the others to go hungry. Retired surgeon Phil Seu spent 100 hours photographing the birds from a hide in San Francisco Bay, California