A Black Woodpecker takes care of his newly hatched chicks in Cheolwon-gun, north of Seoul, South Korea. The Black Woodpecker lives in mature forest across the northern palearctic. The plumage of this crow-sized woodpecker is entirely black apart from a red crown. In males, the entire crown is red, but in females only the hindcrown.
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A two year old polar bear cub ventures close to a visiting boat over the moving ice flow on in Vaigattfjellet, North Spitsbergen, Norway.
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A pair of wild cedar waxwings share a small fruit in a bush at a park near Roseburg. During courtship male and female cedar waxwings will sit together and pass small objects back and forth.
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The sunset casts long shadows as a cat crosses a country road near Oakland.
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A wild donkey and its foal nuzzle in their enclosure at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany.
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Yozhik, a male Himalayan bear, is cooled under a stream of water sprayed by an employee of the Royev Ruchey zoo on a hot day near Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
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A white crane walks on the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar.
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Otter “Ferret” votes for Germany as it predicts the result of the upcoming EURO 2012 football match of the Netherlands against Germany at the zoo in Aue, eastern Germany.
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Brown bear Taquoka plays with a log in a pond in his enclosure at Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage, Alaska. Taquoka, a 2-year-old male brown bear at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, will began a trip to his new home in Sweden.
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A herd of Sri Lankan elephants are led to their daily bath at the nearby river of the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage in Kegalla, Sri Lanka. The first ever of its kind, the Pinnawela orphanage was established to care for five orphaned wild elephants in Sri Lanka in 1975. Currently it is home to 83 pachyderms of which 50 are females and 23 are males.
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Camels and their calfs forage at their enclosure at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany.
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A sand dune lizard is seen in Chaves County, N.M. A contentious battle over the rare lizard found only in New Mexico and West Texas’ oil and gas country has taken a surprising turn with federal officials deciding not to bestow endangered species protections on the small reptile.
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Two six month old polar bear cubs hang with their mother as the ice sheet melts around them in Svalbard, Norway.
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A nine-day-old baby giraffe walks through the enclosure, watched by its mother, Shahni, at the zoo in Hanover, Germany. The male giraffe was born on June 5.
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Young female polar bear ‘Anori’ plays in the big enclosure for the first time at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany.
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