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Piglets listen to music inside their pen at a farm in Nyirangarama in Northern Rwanda, September 28, 2010. Gerald Sina, director of Urwibutso, a farm attached to a popular truck-stop, has been rearing pigs with music, a technique he discovered in Belgium six years ago. His litter of musical swine also helps combat poverty using a traditional method of wealth distribution.
REUTERS/Hereward Holland
A butterfly collects pollen from a flower in Taipei October 7, 2010. REUTERS/Nicky Loh
Dogs named Habagat, left, and Bagwis, right, hold small baskets for coins, Oct. 8, 2010 in Manila, Philippines. A small placard was placed by the owner on the ground asking for alms. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)
One of the newly born twins panda cubs grimaces in their incubator at the Madrid Zoo on October 8, 2010 in Madrid. The two panda cubs, born on September 7, 2010, are the first giant panda twins to be conceived using the artificial insemination method outside of China. AFP PHOTO/ DOMINIQUE FAGET
The red sludge spill in Hungary earlier this week has displaced hundreds from their homes in the village of Kolontar (population 800). Officials say 34 homes are unlivable, but locals say the entire village is a write-off.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called the spill an unprecedented disaster in Hungary.
"If this had happened at night then everyone here would have died," he was quoted by MTI as telling villagers.
Emergency workers, soldiers and volunteers continue to try and clean up the mud, which burst from a Hungarian factory's reservoir on Monday.
A Hungarian fire fighter cleans a yard flooded by toxic mud in Devecser, Hungary, Oct. 6, 2010. Monday's flooding was caused by the rupture of a red sludge reservoir at a metals plant in western Hungary and has affected seven towns near the Ajkai, 160 km southwest of Budapest. (Bela Szandelszky/AP)
An aerial view of streets covered with red mud in Devecser, 164 km southwest of Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 6, 2010, after a dike of a reservoir containing red mud of an alumina factory in nearby Ajka broke on Monday, and over one million cubic metres of the poisonous chemical sludge inundated three villages. (Sandor H. Szabo/AP)
Family photos on a wall show the height of the sludge after a flood of toxic mud broke into a home in the village of Kolontar, Hungary, on Oct. 7, 2010. Monday's flooding was caused by the rupture of a red sludge reservoir at a metals works in western Hungary. (Bela Szandelszky/AP)
A Hungarian soldier, wearing protective gear, cleans a house flooded by toxic mud in Devecser, Hungary, on Oct. 7, 2010. The toxic red sludge that inundated three Hungarian villages reached Europe's mighty Danube River on Thursday but no immediate damage was evident, Hungary's rescue operations agency said. (Bela Szandelszky/AP)
Firefighters, wearing protective gear, discard belongings from a house damaged by flooding toxic mud in the village of Kolontar, Hungary, on Oct. 7, 2010. (Bela Szandelszky/AP)
A dead chicken lies on the ground in Kolontar about 160 km south-west of Budapest on Oct. 6, 2010. The residents of Kolontar were attempting to piece their lives back togther after a wave of toxic red mud swept through their small village on Monday, killing four and injuring scores more. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images)
An elderly man tries to clean up his home in the flooded village of Devecser, 150 km west of Budapest on Oct. 6, 2010. The dam of a sludge reservoir at an alumina factory owned by MAL Zrt burst on Monday, flooding parts of three villages and killing at least four people, the regional emergency unit said. (LASZLO BALOGH/REUTERS)
A man eats his lunch in his garden in the flooded village of Kolontar, 150 km west of Budapest on Oct. 6, 2010. (LASZLO BALOGH/REUTERS)
A villager passes by a dead dog killed in a flood of toxic mud in Kolontar, Hungary, on Oct. 6, 2010. Emergency workers and construction crews on Wednesday swept through the Hungarian towns hardest hit by a flood of toxic sludge, trying to clear roads and homes of hectares of deep red mud and caustic water. (Bela Szandelszky/AP)
In this handout photo provided by SeaWorld San Diego, a new emperor is in town at SeaWorld on October 4, 2010 in San Diego, California. For the first time in eight years, an emperor penguin has hatched at the marine-life park's Penguin Encounter attraction. The 3-week-old, 2-pound chick hatched in mid-September and is being hand-raised by the SeaWorld's aviculturists in a behind-the-scenes nursery. This marks the 21st emperor penguin to hatch at the park since 1980. SeaWorld San Diego is world-renowned for its successful penguin breeding program and has hatched and raised more than 500 penguin chicks representing eight species in the last 30 years. The chick is expected to go on public display in about four months. (Photo by Mike Aguilera/SeaWorld San Diego via Getty Images)
A jaguar roars at El Picacho zoo, in north Tegucigalpa, on October 5, 2010. AFP PHOTO/Orlando SIERRA
An African penguin swims in his pool at the Servion Zoo in Servion near Lausanne October 4, 2010. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
An antelope (Antilope cervicapra) born in captivity last week is seen at the zoo in Cali, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, on September 29, 2010. (ALUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images)
A fishing cat shown on July 25, 2010 at a private zoo run by Bangladeshi wildlife conservationist Sitesh Ranjon Deb in Sreemangol, some 200 kms northeast from the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. Sitesh is Bangladesh's lone wildlife conservationist fighting a mighty battle to save the remains of what was once one of the richest families of animals and birds in the impoverished country. But after two decades of nursing animals and freeing them in jungles, the 62-year-old is increasingly worried about the effectiveness of his costly, gruelling and not-for-profit job. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
