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Aug. 31, 2012
A baby Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth leans on the side of a container at a sloth sanctuary in Penshurt, Costa Rica, about 140 miles east of San Jose.
Rodrigo Arangua
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AFP/Getty Images
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Aug. 30, 2012
A brown-throated sloth hangs from its claws at a sloth sanctuary in Penshurt, Costa Rica.
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Aug. 30, 2012
A volunteer at a sloth sanctuary in Penshurt, Costa Rica, plays with a brown-throated sloth.
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Sept. 1, 2012
A green macaw flies in the mountains near Manzanillo Beach, about 170 miles east of San Jose, Costa Rica.
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Sept. 3, 2012
A Harris hawk, a medium-large bird of prey formerly known as the bay-winged hawk or dusky hawk, lands on a falconer’s glove during a show in the countryside near Warsaw.
Janek Skarzynski
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Sept. 3, 2012
Noli, owned by William McKee of Charlotte, wears a Democratic-themed bandanna purchased at CarolinaFest, which was held ahead of the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina’s largest city.
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Aug. 21, 2012
A Chihuahua shows its frustration after staff members at Los Angeles County Animal Care Control’s Carson Shelter in Gardena, Calif., placed a treat under a bowl to determine paw preference. Results depend on which paw the dog uses to move the bowl.
Damian Dovarganes
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AP
Aug. 21, 2012
Gacey Meza, an animal care attendant at Los Angeles County Animal Care Control’s Carson Shelter, performs a right-handed, left-handed test with Ni Hao. When a cat wants something, tests show it uses its dominant paw; when it’s just fooling around, it may use either paw or both.
Damian Dovarganes
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AP
Sept. 2, 2012
Lovey, a cat belonging to Don Duplantier, meows from its kennel in a pirogue that was brought in to transport him from Duplantier’s flooded home in Braithwaite, La., in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac.
Gerald Herbert
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AP
Sept. 3, 2012
A rare white Indian tiger cub sits at the feet of its mother, Surya Bara, at a zoo in Liberec, Czech Republic. The cub is one of three born to Surya Bara in July.
Petr David Josek
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AP
Aug. 29, 2012
An employee of Taygan Park, near the Crimean city of Simferopol, Ukraine, carries a lion cub. The facility is the largest lion park in Europe and has more than 50 lions that came from zoos in Europe and South Africa.
Sergei Supinsky
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 30, 2012
A panda cub born in July is held by a San Diego Zoo staff member after a routine exam. It was the sixth giant panda born at the zoo to mother Bai Yun. The zoo is home to the most giant panda births at a breeding facility outside of China.
Ken Bohn
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San Diego Zoo via Reuters
Aug. 27, 2012
Samantha Viar feeds her pigmy goat, Oreo, handfuls of oatmeal in her East Ridge, Tenn., back yard. An East Ridge ordinance prohibits farm animals within city limits, but Mayor Brent Lambert said the city is willing to look at a narrow exception for Oreo.
Tim Barber
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Chattanooga, Tenn., Times Free Press via AP
Aug. 28, 2012
A North American river otter is part of the National Zoo’s new $42 million American Trail Exhibit, which opened in the District on Saturday.
Sarah L. Voisin
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The Washington Post
Aug. 28, 2012
A gray wolf named Crystal explores the National Zoo’s new American Trail Exhibit, which replaces an aging habitat that had become increasingly difficult and expensive to maintain.
Sarah L. Voisin
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The Washington Post
Aug. 29, 2012
A female lion lies past the shadows of visitors to Taygan Park, near Simferopol, Ukraine. The park opened this year.
Sergei Supinsky
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 29, 2012
Visitors to lion-filled Taygan Park, near Simferopol, Ukraine, take photos of the felines from a bridge.
Sergei Supinsky
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 29, 2012
After 18 years in a Lithuanian bar, Masa the bear waits to be taken to a bear park in Duren, Germany. The 20-year-old brown bear spent her years locked in a cage in Kelme as customers fed her, but some complained that she was kept in cruel conditions, prompting her retirement.
Ricardas Vitkus
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AP
Aug. 25, 2012
Elephants walk in a pack at the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi. U.S. actress Kristin Bauer van Straten was in Kenya to make a documentary highlighting the threats to elephants and rhinos.
Sayyid Azim
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AP
Aug. 30, 2012
A meerkat feeds her cubs in their enclosure at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna. Four meerkats were born in the zoo Aug. 7.
Heinz-Peter Bader
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Reuters
Sept. 3, 2012
A penguin stands covered in oil at the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds in Cape Town. The bird was recovered from Robben Island along with about 20 other penguins that were covered in oil after a recent spill. They will be cleaned and returned to the wild.
Schalk van Zuydam
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AP
aug. 28, 2012
Young tawny owls perch on a branch at the RSPCA West Hatch Wildlife Center in Taunton, England. Between January and the end of July, 33 of the baby birds were taken in for care, a large increase over previous years. Weather conditions, including some extremely windy days, may have contributed to their plight.
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Aug. 28, 2012
A shoebill, a storklike bird, makes his home at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo.
Itsuo Inouye
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AP
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