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Weekly animals gallery

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A sea lion lifts a toy barbell with its teeth during the Sea Animals Olympic Game of Polar Ocean Park in Hangzhou, China.

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A three-month-old orangutan hangs onto chain as it has lunch at Ragunan zoo in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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A polar bear enjoys the sun on a rock at the zoo in Berlin, Germany.

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A Great Green Bush-Cricket sits on a leaf in Sieversdorf, Germany.

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A young zebra walks beside its mother in their enclosure at the Zoologischer Garten zoo in Berlin.

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A male great grey owl sits in the owls' enclosure at the Zoologischer Garten zoo in Berlin.

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Light catches the dew drops on this spiderweb along Aldridge Creek Greenway in Huntsville, Ala.

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A bee gathers pollen on a flower from a Rose of Sharon plant in Hazleton Penn.

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A three-month-old cheetah cub, walks through his enclosure on public view at the National Zoo, in Washington.

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"Little," one of two new female baby Komodo Dragons at the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium, walks in her habitat. Little is more adventurous compared to her other half, "Big," who remained hidden during the photo shoot.

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Animal caretaker Amy Walton is seen with Wikie and Moana, her 16-month-old calf, in Marineland aquatic park in Antibes.

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Two hippopotamuses lie in the sun in their enclosure at the Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany.

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A flamingo is photographed at his enclosure in the Dresden Zoo.

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A baby albino fur seal, whose mother died just after his birth, is being cared for at a zoo in Germany.

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These adorable little ducklings were provided with a lovely warm shelter in the shape of their mother - but one tiny bird was left out in the cold at a lake in Romeo, Michigan.

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Two Reticulated Giraffes play at the zoo in Cologne, Germany.

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A grasshopper kicks up a pebble as it leaps into the air on a country road near Roseburg. Grasshoppers are considered one of nature's best athletes with the ability to jump up to 20 times their body length. A human jumping at the same hop-to-length ratio could clear a five-story building or bound the length of a football field in three jumps

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Two tigers play with each other aside a pond at loafing area of Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, China's Heilongjiang Province. .

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A pair of moonfish swim off the coast of San Diego, California.

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Newly-named White African lion female cubs Makaili, (L) and Lemon rest in the heat at the Toronto Zoo after their names were announced in Toronto.

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Moscovy ducklings swim between bubbles, caused by rain drops from an afternoon thunderstorm, at a pond in Pembroke Pines, Fla.

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Lita Velasquez feeds cats in the central park of Lima's upscale seaside Miraflores district, in Peru. About 120 felines populate the park.

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Sarah, an 11-year-old cheetah at the Cincinnati Zoo, breaks her own world record by running 100m in 5.95 seconds at the zoo's Regional Cheetah Breeding Facility (Mast Farm) in Clermont County, Ohio .

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A baby rhesus macaque plays with a tiger cub at a zoo in Hefei, China.