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 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

The Daily Beast - April 13, 2013

A swan standing in the snow eats some leaves of bamboo at the zoo in Berlin on March 17, 2013.      AFP PHOTO / STEPHANIE PILICK

The Daily Beast - April 11, 2013

The new red panda at the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium munches on food in the new exhibit on April 4, 2013, in Pittsburgh. This panda is native to the mountains of Nepal, Myanmar, and central China. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

The Daily Beast - April 10, 2013

Aluna, a baby Dik-dik, walks across a computer keyboard in the office of Tim Rowlands, curator of mammals at Chester Zoo, in northern England March 12, 2013. The miniature antelope which is only 8 inches tall (20 cm) is being hand reared by the zoo after failing to bond with its mother. REUTERS/Phil Noble

The Daily Beast - April 9, 2013

Valentina, a two-month old puma cub, bites the nose of a carer at the Attica Zoological Park in Athens, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)