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Aug. 25, 2012
A woman poses with her canines during the FCI International Dog Show in Minsk, Belarus.
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Aug. 18, 2012
A humpback whale emerges to feed near spectators just off a beach in San Luis Obispo, Calif. The whale fed on a school of bait fish for more than an hour.
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Aug. 25, 2012
Richie Moretti, left, and Bette Zirkelback place a Kemp’s ridley turtle into an indoor tank in Marathon, Fla. The turtles were moved from outside tanks in anticipation of Tropical Storm Isaac.
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Aug. 13, 2013
South Carolina United Turtle Enthusiasts coordinator Sue Habermeier opens a green sea turtle egg for a DNA sample on Garden City Beach, S.C. During a nest relocation or inspection, one egg is sacrificed for a DNA sample from the membrane, so that scientists can use it to track the female turtles. Turtle volunteers walk the area's beaches along South Carolina's coast daily during the nesting season, looking for signs of turtle activity and keeping tabs on the progress of the endangered species.
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Aug. 22, 2012
Zookeeper Grant Kother, at ZSL London Zoo, weighs and measures a giant tortoise during the zoo's annual weigh-in. The height and mass of every animal in the zoo, of which there are more than 16,000, need to be recorded. The measurements are collated in the Zoological Information Management System, from which zoologists can use the data to compare information on thousands of endangered species.
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Aug. 22, 2012
A zookeeper holds a giant African millipede during the annual weigh-in at ZSL London Zoo.
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Aug. 22, 2012
Elton, a spectacled owl, sits on a scale at ZSL London Zoo as the zookeepers weigh and measure the animals for their annual weigh-in.
Andrew Cowie
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Aug. 22, 2012
A zookeeper strokes a penguin during the annual weigh-in at ZSL London Zoo.
Andrew Cowie
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Aug. 26, 2012
Swans and ducks occupy a beach at Wannsee Lake in Berlin. The lake, on the western outskirts of the city, is a favorite Berliner weekend destination.
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Aug. 26, 2012
Goats climb up an Argan tree to eat its fruit, near Essaouira, Morocco.
Fadel Senna
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Aug. 23, 2012
Pippa, a baby llama, chews as she stands in her enclosure at the zoo in Hanover, Germany. Pippa was born Aug. 12.
Emily Wabitsch
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Aug. 23, 2012
Pippa plays with capybaras in her enclosure at the Hanover zoo.
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Aug. 22, 2012
Two giraffes look at each other from the windows of their enclosure during the annual weigh-in at ZSL London Zoo.
Andrew Cowie
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Aug. 22, 2012
A woman looks at a bag of saline solution of her dog as another holds her dog in a veterinarian hospital financed by Sao Paulo, Brazil's municipal government. The animal hospital opened two months ago, offering free health care for the pets of low-income residents.
Nacho Doce
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Reuters
Aug. 22, 2012
People wait with their pets outside the animal hospital in Sao Paulo. The city is home to 3 million domestic pets, according to government statistics.
Nacho Doce
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Aug. 11, 2012
A woman plays with a dog during a charity event in Minsk. The Public Association for Animal Protection organized an event to match homeless dogs and cats to prospective owners in the Belarusian capital.
Vasily Fedosenko
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Reuters
Aug. 23, 2012
A four-day-old baby hippopotamus swims next to its mother, Kibu, at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The calf was temporarily named Syawal, because it was born on the first day of month of Syawal in the Islamic calendar, which is the start of the Eid al-Fitr festival.
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The hippopotamus calf is the offspring of 21-year-old Kibu and 31-year-old Duke. The gender of the newborn hippo has not been determined, and the calf will be officially named at a later date by its sponsor.
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Aug. 23, 2012
Men carry Yossi the Fisherman, a green sea turtle, as it is released back into the Mediterranean at a beach near the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Israel Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center employees released four sea turtles after they were rescued and treated at the center.
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Aug. 22, 2012
Two river dolphins are seen at Arau River in the Amazon.
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Aug. 22, 2012
A bear cools off at Rome's Bioparco Zoo. With temperatures nearing 100 degrees in the Italian capital, zookeepers were trying to help some of the 1,000 animals "confront the torrid heat."
Filippo Monteforte
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Aug. 23, 2012
Giant panda Yang Yang, left, and her cub, Fu Hu, cuddle in their enclosure on Fu Hu's second birthday at the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna. The cub's parents were transferred from China to the Austrian zoo in 2003 and are on loan for 10 years.
Heinz-Peter Bader
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