The Daily Beast - April 24, 2013

One of the two five month old Indian white tiger male cubs, named Kiran and Sharan, follow his mother Sameera at their enclosure at Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad on March 21, 2013. The unusual white colouration of white tigers has made them popular in zoos and entertainment showcasing exotic animals. AFP PHOTO / Noah SEELAM

The Daily Beast - April 23, 2013

"Dimbi", a blue-eyed black lemur cub (Eulemur flavifrons) is pictured at the zoo of Mulhouse, northeastern France, on April 19, 2013. There's currently less than 2,000 blue-eyed black lemurs into the wild. AFP PHOTO / SEBASTIEN BOZON

The Daily Beast - April 22, 2013

A Crowned Crane grazes at a hotel compound in Nairobi April 18, 2013. Picture taken April 18, 2013. REUTERS/Noor Khamis

The Daily Beast - April 21, 2013

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Aurora, a three-year-old female polar bear, swims in a pool for the first time in the season at the Royev Ruchey zoo in a surburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, April 12, 2013. Two female polar bear cubs, Aurora and Victoria, were found without their mother in Russia's Taimyr Peninsula on the Arctic Ocean coast in May 2010 and were later brought to the zoo in Krasnoyarsk. 

 

The Daily Beast - April 20, 2013

Zookeeper Nadezda Radovic kisses a baby lemur at the Belgrade Zoo, Serbia, April 18, 2013.  (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

The Daily Beast - April 19, 2013

Guilford County Animal Control officer E. Afari carries a loose pig to his truck after catching it in the 3700 block of Dawson Avenue in Greensboro, N.C., on April 11, 2013. Citizens in the area called police after seeing the animal roaming around the area of Dawson Avenue and Abington Drive in east Greensboro just after 4 p.m.  Another animal control officer who originally responded to scene kept the pig calm in a grassy area adjacent to a house on Dawson Avenue until Afari arrived to assist. Afari said the original responding officer did not have space in his truck to hold the pig and called for assistance. Both animal control and a Greensboro Police officer who responded to the scene said they did not know where the pig came from. (AP Photo/News & Record, Nelson Kepley)

The Daily Beast - April 18, 2013

Baby okapi "Bashira" stands next to her mother "Batouri" on April 12, 2013 at the zoo in Berlin. "Bashira" was born at the zoo on February 26, 2013.    AFP PHOTO / JAN-PHILIPP STROBEL

The Daily Beast - April 17, 2013

A young still nameless Giraffe is pictured in front of the mother Kabonga in the enclosure at the Zoo Munich-Hellabrunn, southern Germany on March 21, 2013. The Giraffe was born on March 14, 2013 at the zoo in Munich. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE

The Daily Beast - April 15, 2013

Small swans swim on April 11, 2013 in a pond of the The Bird Park in Marlow, Germany.   AFP PHOTO / BERND WUSTNECK

The Daily Beast - April 14, 2013

A dog is pictured in front of a polar bear in its enclosure at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on April 2 , 2013.  AFP PHOTO / ROLAND WEIHRAUCH