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Weekly animals gallery

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After making his way into a residential Boston neighborhood, this black bear is seen first in a tree and then falling from it after being tranquilized by environmental police officers. The 200-pound bear survived the 80 foot fall and transported out of the area.

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A newly-hatched Madagascar spider tortoise strolls along a rock at the zoo in San Diego.

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Three Snowy Owl chicks sit in a basket at the zoo in Hanover, Germany. The four-week-old chicks will leave their nest at around 18 weeks and will be fully grown in 60 days.

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Three young ducks, recently hatched at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York, perch on a stump as their mother forages nearby.

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A police dog snags a German federal police officer during a training demonstration in Berlin.

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A female humpback whale protects her calf while hopeful male suitors compete in what's called a "heat run," jumping and blowing bubbles to impress the female and intimidate their competition.

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A Great White Pelican cleans his feathers at the zoo in Krefeld, Germany. The bird is typically found in Vietnam and South Africa.

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A female Sumatran rhino named Ratu sits with her newborn calf at Way Kambas National Park in Lampung, Indonesia. Ratu, a highly endangered Sumatran rhinoceros, gave birth to the calf last week. It is only the fifth known birth in captivity for the species in 123 years.

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Female giant panda Shin Shin rests at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo. The zoo announced Monday that Shin Shin, who arrived from China with a male partner in Feb, 2011, has shown signs of pregnancy. The zoo plans to suspend public viewing July 3 to monitor her closely.

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A deer slips through a barbed-wire fence along US highway 24 near Manitou Springs, Colo., as a wildfires burn across the region.

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A baby raccoon got its head stuck in a storm drain in downtown Detroit. But don't worry, the critter was spotted by a public works officer and rescued using vegetable oil and dish soap.

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A young tiger prowls around its enclosure at the zoo in Krefeld, Germany.

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A lemur cleans her two month baby at the Bioparco zoological garden in Rome, Italy.

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A worker shows a newly-hatched baby crocodile during a hatching inside a crocodile farm in Pasay city, Manila.

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Over a thousand horses run together in the "saca de las yeguas," a 500-year-old social event organized by local cattle-raisers in Almonte, Spain.

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A camel grabs a drink at the Bioparco zoological garden in Rome, Italy.

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Gus the Polar Bear takes a dip at the Central Park Zoo in New York to escape the unbearable heat.

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A boy sits on a buffalo as he cools off in a pond during a hot summer day at Jetapura village in the western Indian state of Gujarat.