TODAY - 16 May, 2010
Animal pictures
A polar bear cub and his mother lark about on the frozen water, skidding about, then jumping in the icy waters. Wildlife photographer Steven J Kazlowski captured the moment off the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska
Two four-month-old polar bear cubs walk in an open-air enclosure on their first day at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The two female wild polar bear cubs were delivered to their new home after they were found in Russia's Taimyr peninsula in the Arctic Ocean in early May
Children watch Rasputin the polar bear swim in its new tank at the Marineland aquatic park in Antibes, France. The two-year-old male polar was born at the Moscow Zoo...
...Rasputin joins Flocke, the female polar bear famously raised by hand in Germany, at Marineland in Antibes
A baby L'Hoest's monkey born on April 19 has a look around its cage at Edinburgh zoo
Gan Ju, the first male Francois Langur to be born in Australia, clings to his mother at Taronga Zoo in Sydney
A young monk sits next to an orangutan as he and others visit a local zoo in Goyang, South Korea
An orangutan keeps warm in the chilly weather by wrapping himself up with a towel at Twycross Zoo, Leicestershire
Monkeys drink water out of taps on a hot summer afternoon in the northern Indian city of Jammu
Wolf and tiger cubs play together at TIGERS (The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species) in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
A Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) glares into the camera held by Jonathan Griffiths, a British photographer who risked his life as he captured dramatic wildlife shots. The 32-year-old photographer held his camera just inches away from lions, bears and cougars while a guard stood watch by his side
One of four Sumatran Tiger cubs, born at Melbourne zoo in February, is displayed to the public for the first time
Amur tigers Vladimir, Natalia and Domininca celebrate their first birthday with a cake filled with special treats at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig
A territorial lioness chases a young leopard away from a watering hole. The chase was caught on camera by South African wildlife photographer Callie De Wet as it unfolded in the Kgalagadi Trans-Frontier Park
Elephant Farina gave birth to a healthy 98-kilo boy on May 11 at Hanover Zoo in Germany. Mother and son are doing fine. The two of them are enjoying a few days alone to rest and get to know each other
The youngest member of the elephant family (second left) prefers to take a back seat as her mother Farina (L) leads a performance in the zoo in Hanover
Mahouts sit atop elephants while taking part in a fireworks ceremony to celebrate Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 60th coronation anniversary in Bangkok's Royal Plaza
A newborn tufted deer is cleaned by its mother at Tywcross Zoo in Leicestershire
A deer eats grass in a field near Medvode, Slovenia
Staff at a country park were celebrating the arrival of this baby reindeer who has become the first born in England for 800 years. The baby reindeer - nicknamed Blue - is the first born in the country since the creatures were hunted to extinction in the 13th century. He is the first young born to a herd of one male and five females imported from Scandinavia to the Trevarno Estate near Helston, Cornwall. Officials imported the reindeer in 2008 as part of the estates' Christmas celebrations. Baby Blue was born on May 1 to mum Prancer and dad Rudolph
An alpaca has its neck fur sheared at Eastland Alpaca Farm in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, US. Hair from more than 100 alpacas is on its way to the Gulf of Mexico to help soak up the oil spill
A young red fox greets its mother when she returns to their den in Erie, Colorado
A dog wearing a red top hat rides a scooter during the Cannes film festival in the south of France
An eight-year-old female Dalmatian named Tiara sits on the back of a horse in Obihiro, northern Japan
Two extremely rare white otter cubs have been born at the aquarium in Cheshire Oaks
A penguin is brought out of its enclosure for children to view at the opening of the newly renovated Children's Zoo at the Cincinnati Zoo
Canada geese goslings huddle near the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia
Two of the 24 crane chicks that are being reared at Slimbridge on the Somerset Levels
Can you see the caterpillar on this leaf? Look closely. Conny Sandland was puzzled when evidence suggested leaves on the mango tree in her garden in Kuala Lumpur were being eaten. She said: "The mystery went on for a number of days before I spotted a flicker of movement on a leaf. I was startled when I looked closer as there was a caterpillar almost completely blending into the pattern of the leaf. I believe it is the caterpillar of the Common Baron butterfly"
The reflection of a rare bat shimmers on a forest pond near Venray, The Netherlands, as it swoops and grabs an insect. Biologist and photographer Paul van Hoof spent weeks trying to get these shots of the "nocturnal and elusive" Daubenton's bat
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