Animals In News

 

Moco the baboon jumps through a ring of fire at a zoo in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, China

This clever orangutan was more than happy to show watching humans how to use a new credit card entry system at a zoo in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong province

A young mandrill clings on to its mother at the zoo in Berlin. The female primate was born on June 16 at the zoo

A macaque tucks into a fruity ice block at Erfurt zoo in Germany

Paul, the so-called "octopus oracle", is presented with a Spanish football jersey and a bronze statuette at the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany

A polar bear bites an ice block containing apples at a zoo in Osaka, western Japan

People watch through an underwater viewing area as a polar bear reaches toward a fish while being fed in a saltwater pool at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington

An adult puffin prepares to enter a burrow, holding sandeels in its beak to feed its chicks, on Skomer Island in Pembrokeshire, Wales

One of the 100 Magellanic penguins found covered in oil enjoys its recovery in the pool at the Society for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Maldonado, Argentina

A photo issued by the Forestry Commission of a white squirrel, at Guisborough Forest near Middlesbrough on Teesside. Visitors spotted two albino grey squirrels in woodland at Guisborough Forest

A squirrel takes a drink from a garden swimming pool in Texas. Luckily the water in the pool isn't chlorinated

A Grevy's zebra at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, Kent, gets a routine hoof trim. Unlike conventional farriery for domestic horses, the zebras must be sedated to allow the vet and keeping team to check and maintain their feet when required. Like other equines Zebras hooves are made of a substance similar to human fingernails and have no sensation allowing them to be trimmed painlessly

Two Southeast Asian clouded leopard cubs are seen at Jardin des Plantes Zoological in Paris. The two female cubs, named Pati and Jaya, born recently made their first appearance in public

A tiger cub explores his enclosure for the first time since his birth 8 weeks ago in Blijdorp Zoo, Rotterdam, Holland

A Barbary lion named Chalid roams his new compound at the Hanover Zoo in Germany. It is hoped he will be able to reproduce with the zoo's two female lions. There are only 54 Barbary lions left on the planet

A German Shepherd dog named Cholli raises puma cubs in the zoo in Samara, Russia

Dogs, wearing hats and sunglasses, are used by their owner to beg for coins in Manila

Six-week-old puppies, Marco and Malini, wear top hats to promote Top Dog Day, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Dogs attend a special 3D screening of the new Warner Bros film, Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore at the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square

Chester Zoo's new male Asian elephant calf, which is yet to be named, takes his first steps in the zoo's outdoor elephant enclosure

A two-year-old South American sea lion opens its mouth after eating a fish at the Manila Ocean Park in Manila

A bull on display at the five-day annual agricultural fair in Libramont, southern Belgium

A herd of two-humped camels walks through the Bayan-kol valley in Russia's Tuva region, about 800 km (497 miles) to the south of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The government of Russia's Tuva region, close to the border with Mongolia, has launched a plan to boost the number of camels on local farms and hope to increase the region's income through sales of camel hair