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Sept. 16, 2012
A California sea lion and a walrus kiss during a show at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium and amusement park complex in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo.
Itsuo Inouye
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AP
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Private Cowboy is part of the Livestock Annex’s Longhorn Exhibit at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson.
Lindsey Bauman
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Hutchinson, Kan., News via AP
Sept. 10, 2012
A Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is lifted from a bin before being released into the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast after being rehabilitated at a turtle research center in Galveston, Tex. The endangered Kemp’s ridley is considered the smallest marine turtle in the world.
Pat Sullivan
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AP
Sept. 13, 2012
Cheetah cubs named after USA Track & Field Olympic sprinters Carmelita Jeter and Justin Gatlin wrestle at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington.
Jahi Chikwendiu
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The Washington Post
Sept. 13, 2012
An elephant sprays water on itself before a match during the 11th King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament in the Thai resort town of Hua-Hin. The match pitted 16 international teams against each other, with 50 elephants participating.
Sukree Sukplang
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Reuters
A newborn donkey and its mother, Alina, stand in their enclosure at the zoo in the northern German town of Stralsund.
Stefan Sauer
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 14, 2012
A 5-day-old guanaco is pictured in its enclosure at Zoologischer Garten in Berlin. The animal was born at the zoo on Sept. 8 and weighs 22 pounds.
Johannes Eisele
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 12, 2012
A young alpaca yawns while taking a rest in a pasture in Albany, Vt.
Toby Talbot
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AP
Sept. 14, 2012
A female silvery gibbon named Pangrango balances on ropes with her 4-week-old baby in their compound at the Hellabrunn zoo in Munich.
Uwe Lein
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AP
Sept. 17, 2012
A chimpanzee named Ruben takes a ride on the back of his surrogate mother, Kito, at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Ruben’s mother, Rukiya, died just 24 hours after giving birth during a medical procedure. After being raised at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, the 7-month-old Ruben arrived at the Oklahoma City Zoo on July 30, and he is slowly being introduced to the other members of his chimp family.
Sue Ogrocki
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AP
Sept. 5, 2012
Jungle Island volunteer Linda Jacobs comforts Peanut, an orangutan from a private zoo, as she is treated with R-CHOP therapy, a combination of drugs used in chemotherapy to treat her aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Miami. Human medical specialists are treading new ground in applying a standard chemotherapy regimen to treat cancer in an orangutan. Orangutans share about 96 percent of a human’s genetic makeup, and Peanut’s treatment plan is closer to that of what a human would receive for the same type of cancer, making this the first documented case of an orangutan being treated with this type of therapy.
J Pat Carter
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AP
A new species of monkey — seen here in an undated photograph — was found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was known to locals as a lesula; it has since been identified as Cercopithecus lomamiensis. The monkey was first seen in 2007 by researchers John and Terese Hart of Yale University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History. The finding of C. lomamiensis represents only the second new species of African monkey to be discovered in the past 28 years, according to a research article published in the scientific journal PLOS One on Sept.12.
Hart JA, Detwiler KM, Gilbert CC
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Reuters
This undated photograph shows a rare Jemez Mountain salamander on a burnt log in northern New Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a proposal Sept. 11 to list the salamander as an endangered species.
David Solis
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Nature Conservancy via AP
Frehley, seen here in an undated photograph, is one of the dogs who was trained to sniff out the rare Jemez Mountain salamander and its scat in northern New Mexico.
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AP
Sept., 16, 2012
A brown bear cub walks in an area of taiga near the village of Ust-Mana, some 18 miles south of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Ilya Naymushin
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Reuters
Sept. 14, 2012
A little polar bear named Anori plays with his mother, Vilma, on a cold and rainy autumn day at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany.
Martin Meissner
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AP
Sept. 12, 2012
A 45-day-old male panda cub undergoes an examination at the San Diego Zoo. During the exam, animal-care staff could see the cub's eyes beginning to open. It will take about another 20 days for his eyes to be fully open.
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San Diego Zoo via Reuters
Sept. 16, 2012
A man displays his dog during an event in Stockholm called Stockholm's Dog Day, where people bring their dogs to take part in various activities.
Jonathan Nackstrand
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 16, 2012
A dog participates in Stockholm's Dog Day.
Jonathan Nackstrand
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 17, 2012
Banana, a 16-foot female albino Burmese python, readjusts to her surroundings on the bathroom floor of Jana and Gary Saurage’s home in Beaumont, Tex., while a new enclosure is being built for her at the Gator Country wildlife park. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says they got a call on Sunday evening that there was a large snake by the entrance to the park. Upon arrival, the deputies and Gator Country owner Gary Saurage identified the snake as Banana, who was stolen from the park in April.
Dave Ryan
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Beaumont, Tex., Enterprise via AP
Sept. 18, 2012
Dagamba, a red river hog, cuddles her baby, Tonka, at the Zoologischer Garten in Berlin. Tonka was born Sept. 1 at the zoo. In the wild, the pigs live in Africa, preferring areas close to rivers or swamps.
Ole Spata
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 14, 2012
A squirrel nibbles on plant life in New York’s Central Park. Between 16 million and 20 million people visit the park, the nation’s first, each year, according to a New York police Web site. The park is home to squirrels, birds, fish, rabbits, turtles, frogs and other animals, including 42 species of birds year-round, the site says.
Bebeto Matthews
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AP
Sept. 7, 2012
An adult bald eagle watches for a meal along Thane Road in Juneau, Alaska.
Michael Penn
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Juneau, Alaska, Empire via AP
Sept. 15, 2012
A mole on climbs atop a pile of dirt in the northern French city of Godewaersvelde.
Philippe Huguen
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AFP/Getty Images
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