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REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
Bianca, a female snow leopard, an endangered species, rests in an open air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, March 15, 2012. Bianca returned to Krasnoyarsk after a three-year-long stay at a zoo in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, to wait for a male snow leopard, which is wanted by employees to help propagate the species, according to zoo representatives.
AFP PHOTO / PATRIK STOLLARZ
An otter swims in a pool inside his enclosure at the "ZOOM" Zoo in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany on March 12, 2012.
AP Photo/Nick Ut
Lorin Linder, co-founder and president of the Lockwood Animal Rescue Center, with one of the 29 rescued wolf dogs at the center in Lockwood, Calif. It's been three months since this California animal rescue center retrieved 29 wolf-dogs from an Alaska tourist attraction that had fought the state over owning, breeding and selling the wolf-hybrids. Chains were so deeply embedded in the necks of two of the animals that they had to be surgically removed.The task of taming the wolf-dogs has been given to a couple of U.S. military veterans who say they can relate to the stress of trying to transition to a normal life.
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A joey, which is approximately six months old, pokes its head out of its mother’s pouch at Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Massachusetts. Kangaroo babies are born after a very short 30 to 35 day gestation period, and are about the size of a jelly bean. Joeys begin to emerge from the pouch for short periods at around 190 days. They will feed from the mother for up to a year, but at about eight months will start to try solid food. The joey, whose gender is not yet known, was born to mother Skippy, aged 6, and father Binowee (an Aboriginal word meaning “green place”), aged 4.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Red river hog Ine cuddles with one of her two newly-born piglets at the Calgary Zoo, Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Red river hogs are native to West and Central sub Saharan Africa to Northern South Africa and Madagascar.
AP Photo/dapd/ Tim Schulz
Two young cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) play in their enclosure in the zoo in Neuwied , Germany, March 5, 2012.
Arkasha Stevenson/Los Angeles Times/MCT
San Nicolas Island's beaches are home to many animals including curious California sea lions. Officials from the Navy and environmental groups have completed a three-year program to relocate feral cats off San Nicolas Island. The effort was made to save the island's sea birds, the sea lions' frequent beach companion.
AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit
White Bengal tiger yawns at the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, March 14, 2012.
AP Photo/Jens Meyer
A two-week old male giraffe sticks out his tongue in front of his mother 'Ashanti', not seen in the picture during the first contact with the herd of Rothschild giraffes in the Leipzig zoo, central Germany, Monday, March 5, 2012.
U.K. based photographers and brothers, Will Burrard-Lucas and Matt Burrard-Lucas embarked on a project to get unique close-up, ground level photographs of African wildlife in 2009. They built the BeetleCam - a remote controlled buggy with a DSLR camera mounted on top. Matt and Will travelled to Tanzania and used the buggy to get groundbreaking photographs of elephants and buffalo. However, they lost a camera and the BeetleCam was almost destroyed in the only encounter with a lion.
In 2011, two new BeetleCams were created, one with more advanced capabilities and one with an armoured shell. They returned to Africa to photograph the lions of the Masai Mara. BeetleCam received a battering but it survived, providing a spectacular portfolio of lion photographs, some of which are highlighted here.
Portrait of a male lion covered in flies.
Four boisterous lion cubs close in on BeetleCam. They later managed to abduct BeetleCam by carrying it off into the bushes!
A lioness investigating BeetleCam.
A male lion yawns while guarding his kill. This lion fastidiously chased away all vultures but didn't seemed to mind BeetleCam.
This lioness poked her nose into the frame as we were trying to photograph the young male lion, a sort of lion photobomb.
A grumpy male lion chewing on BeetleCam. This lion had it in for BeetleCam, invariable mauling the buggy whenever it was in sight.
This may look like a roaring lioness, but she was actually just yawning.
BeetleCam Armoured Edition photographing a male lion with it's kill (a wildebeest). This photograph was taken by BeetleCam Mark II.
An adorable young lion cub checks out BeetleCam.
The photographers behind the BeetleCam project, Will Burrard-Lucas (left) and Matt Burrard-Lucas (right) with two BeetleCams in Masai Mara, Kenya.
BeettleCam Mark II, equipped with a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, 16-35mm f/2.8 lens, dual Speedlite flashes and a GoPro Hero.
BeettleCam Armoured Edition, equipped with a Canon EOS 550D and 16-35mm f/2.8 lens.
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