Swans make their way alongside channels toward the Outer Alster lake in Hamburg, Germany. About 120 swans are being driven toward their usual habitat by boats after spending five months in their winter quarters.
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Humpback Whales are seen interacting with each other near the Pacific Ocean in Tonga.
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A male orangutan and a four-year-old baby hang from trees in Gunung Leuser National Park in Langkat district of the Indonesia’s North Sumatra Province.
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Twin polar bears Lele , a male cub, and Jingjing, a female cub, play beside a pool during a public showing at a sea world in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province.
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Mountain lion cubs siblings look at their audience at the Orange County Zoo. The male displaced his sister as she rested on the tree. The pair was found starving and orphaned in Oregon last August.
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A Rhinoceros Ratsnake (Rhynchophis boulengeri) is seen in a new terrarium of the Royev Ruchey zoo in a surburb of Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Rhynchophis boulengeri is also known as Rhinoceros Snake, Rhino Rat Snake and Vietnamese Longnose Snake.
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A girl walks with her dog in a snow clad park in Minsk, Belarus.
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A caretaker bathes two white elephants in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. Kings and leaders in the predominantly Buddhist nation have traditionally treasured white elephants, whose rare appearances in the country are believed to herald good fortune, including power and political change.
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A newborn warthog plays with a meerkat outside the “Ouwehands dierenpark” zoo in Rhenen, Netherlands.
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A Roe deer stands in a forest near the village of Gorodishche, southwest of Minsk.
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A Humboldt Penguin dives off a board as a heron takes a fish at London Zoo in London . The diving board has been installed to coincide with the “Inspired by 2012” London Olympics programme.
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Barbary lion cubs Joco and Zari paw their birthday present at the zoo in Hanover, Germany. The cubs have turned one.
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A male Indian One-horned Rhino is being chased away by another male Rhino in the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary, Morigaon district of Assam, northeast India.
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A German shepherd dog is tested as part of a general training course at a local cynologist police center in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Dogs of the cynologist centre help police patrol streets, search for drugs, explosives and weapons, as well as with criminal investigations.
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The Abah River Flying Frog, commonly known as Wallace’s flying frog, is seen in a terrarium of the Royev Ruchey zoo in a surburb of Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Rhacophorus dennysi is found in China, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.
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A bumble bee searches for pollen among cherry blossoms on a sunny spring day in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Meet Prince Harry – a six-day-old pygmy hippo. The 11lb baby animal was born last week at a South Africa wildlife sanctuary.
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Female polar bear cub Anori plays with its mother Vilma in their outdoor enclosure at the Zoo in Wuppertal, Germany. Anori was born January 4 and left the birth cave for the first time today.
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A flowerhorn fish is displayed at the annual fish festival or “Pramong Nomjai Thai Tuala” at a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand.
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