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Weekly animals gallery

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Bengal White Tiger cubs are seen at Guiyang Forest Wild Zoo in Guiyang, Guizhou Province of China.

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A young white-tailed eagle is hand-fed in the wildlife park in Eekholt, Germany.

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A miniature piglet sniffs for something to eat in its enclosure at the zoo in Hanover, Germany.

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A mother and her seven cygnets feed along the river in Chiswick, UK.

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A rooster crosses the street on Porter Street in Dade City north of Watson Park in Tampa, Florida.

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A tiger walks in the Sungai Yu Tiger Corridor of Malaysia's eastern state Pahang. A Malaysian government plan to double its population of endangered Malayan tigers to 1,000 through tighter protection is under threat due to persistent poaching.

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A Magellanic penguin swims in the June Keyes Penguin Habitat exhibit at The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, Calif.

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Two 14 month old Tasmanian Devils explore their enclosure at Devil Ark in the Barrington Tops area of Australia's New South Wales state. At Devil Ark situated deep in eastern Australia's cattle and thoroughbred country, a group of endangered Tasmanian Devils are being taught to forage in the wild as researchers race a contagious cancer threatening the species with extinction.

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A bird perches on a tree in front of the full moon in the Yawalapiti village at the Xingu National Park, Mato Grosso State, Brazil.

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A heliconius charitonius butterfly flies as another rests on a leaf in Butterfly Garden in La Guacima, northwest of San Jose, Costa Rica.

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A peacock opens its feathers in a cage in the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad. The peacock is the national bird of India.

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A quarantined black bear cub explores his surroundings at The Oregon Zoo in Portland, Ore.

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Piquet, a Pacific white-sided dolphin, swims at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Care experts are preparing for Piquet to give birth this spring.

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A morpho peleides butterfly lays its eggs, while two ants surround one, in Butterfly Garden in La Guacima, northwest of San Jose.

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Baby tapir Parima enjoys some leaves during its first outing at its open air enclosure of the Tierpark Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany.

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Barn owl chicks sit in a box in Israel's Beit Shean Valley, near the border with Jordan. The chicks are the product of a joint Israeli-Jordanian project launched in 2002, to use barn owls as biological pesticides.

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White , a 3-year-old poodle, looks at visitors touring a pet fair in Bangkok.

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Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii), Cahaya, holds her newborn, Malou, in her arms, at the Zurich Zoo, Switzerland.