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juvenile tiger roars in a caged compound on the roof top of an apartment building in Pathum Thani province, central Thailand, Sept. 11, 2012. A Thai man has been arrested and accused of illegally raising six tigers on top of the apartment building on Bangkok's outskirts after police busted a larger tiger-trafficking ring in the country.
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Idaho Department of Fish and Game veterinarian Mark Drew bandages the paws of "Boo Boo," a bear cub that was found by firefighters battling the Mustang Fire near Salmon, August 28, 2012, at the Garden Valley U.S. Forest Ranger Station in Garden Valley, Idaho.
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The cub, who is about four months old, was injured in the Mustang Complex Fire. Efforts to locate the cub's mother were unsuccessful.
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Idaho Department of Fish and Game veterinarian Mark Drew, examines "Boo Boo". Drew said that the cub has second-degree burns on all four of his paws and needs daily medical care for the next four to six weeks.
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This handout photo made available by German police shows a squirrel stuck in a manhole cover in a street in Isernhagen, northern Germany on August 5, 2012. The squirrel was finally rescued and set free by the police after several attempts earlier using olive oil failed.
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A pelican, which was named "Mahrouma", meaning deprived in Arabic, by Lebanese fisherman, Abed Ibrik, waits to be fed in the Lebanese port city of Sidon on July 10, 2012. Ibrik rescued Mahrouma four years ago after she was shot in the wing while flying over Sidon and he now feeds her every other day and considers her as part of the family.
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Elizabeth Davis from the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, left, and Dennis Christen of the Georgia Aquarium feed a bottle to a baby beluga calf being rehabilitated at the center. The whale was approximately two days old when it was found in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and separated from its mother. Staff from the Alaska SeaLife Center is receiving help with the whale's care from the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Shedd Aquarium in Chicago and SeaWord in San Diego.
Meet one lucky little squirrel. While having my morning coffee on my deck on Saturday, I noticed something unusual moving about in the pool of my neighbours, Glad and Shirley Lang. At first glance it appeared to be some sort of pool cleaning device skimming the surface. On second glance I soon realized that this was a distressed young squirrel swimming in circles, desperately trying to get out of the pool. Quickly realizing that my neighbours weren't home, I barged into their backyard with a long stick — hoping that the squirrel would grasp on it to climb out. By the time I got to it, the poor thing was floating on its back trying to conserve energy. Grabbing it by the scruff of the neck, I pulled it onto the deck. The squirrel was clearly in trouble and I wasn't sure it was going to make it. After wrapping it up in a towel, I raced off to my vet's office with it cradled in my arms — encouraging this little creature to hang in there and that there would be a great big peanut reward at the end of the day.
A few hours later, the kind folks at the Ajax Animal Hospital said that this little squirrel pup, who almost drowned, was full of beans and ready to go home!
Here's Bobbie, (what she was nicknamed) just before I released her back into our neighbourhood — of course with a firm scolding to stay out of swimming pools......... and my tulips!
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Baby squirrel who fondly became known as Bobbie, looks out of her temporary home provided by the Ajax Animal Hospital before she is released back into her neighbourhood.
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