Yuri, a 7-year old male bear, plays in the snow at the Synevyr National Nature Park in Syveyr, Ukraine.
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A bee collects nectar from a crocus blossom in Kaufbeuren, southern Germany.
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Przewalski’s horses forage in the Karamori Mountain Nature Reserve in Fuyun County, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Region. A total of 84 Przewalski’s horses, including 15 newborns bred in the wild, have safely lived through the winter in the reserve.
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Wild turkeys run across the Blvd. of the Allies at Bates Street in Oakland, Calif.
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Dingo puppies sit in front of their den at Tierpark Berlin in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde, Germany. In total, four puppies were born in January. Dingos are wild domestic dogs and are the only wild, non-marsupial predators in Australia.
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A keeper is observed by two ostriches as she cleans their enclosure at the zoo in Nuremberg, southern Germany
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A tiger walks on his enclosure at the Berg Zoo in Halle, Germany.
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Baby turtles make their way into the ocean upon their release during a campaign to save sea turtles on Lampuuk beach in Aceh Besar, Indonesia.
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Meerkats keep a watchful eye at the Berg Zoo in Halle, Germany.
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Three dogs stand atop wooden pieces on the edge of a flooded street in Jujan, along Ecuador’s coast. Heavy rain is causing flooding and landslides and affecting hundreds of people.
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A wild boar searches for food in the Margallah Hills of Islamabad, Pakistan.
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A white tiger basks in the sun at the Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, the capital of the China’s northern Heilongjiang Province near Russia. The park is the largest natural park for wild Siberian tigers in the world at present. There are over 500 purebred Siberian tigers, along with white tigers, lions, leopards, black pumas and Bengali tigers.
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Parrots stop for some seed and apple at the home of Joe Sulley in Brisbane, Calif. The famous wild parrots of San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill have joined the flight to the suburbs. About a 100 or so of the green birds have been spotted on the slopes of San Bruno Mountain in Brisbane, Calif.
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Two curious raccoons were so tame they crept right up to lens of British photographer Bertie Gregory in Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada.
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Roseate Spoonbills, pink, and white ibis graze in the reeds of Mad Island, Texas. In a typical winter, the Texas Gulf Coast is packed with tens of thousands of birds, songbirds, waterfowl, catbirds, gnatcatchers, warblers and other migrants. But this year, an annual count done just before Christmas found the population had dropped steeply.
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The two polar bear twins, born in the Dutch Zoo ‘Ouwehands Dierenpark’, are fed by their mother Huggies in Rhenen. The three-month-old cubs are in the open air for the first time.
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Luna, a black lab mix, frolics in the snow in East Derry, N.H.
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Two white elephants stand near a pond as they bathe at an elephant camp near Uppatasanti Pagoda in Myanmar’s new capital city, Naypyitaw.
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A young grizzly bear hitches a ride on his mum’s back in a bid to prevent his paws getting cold. The youngster had sought refuge as his mom hunted for food in the freezing snow in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
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The young Situtunga antelope named “Changa” stands in its enclosure at the zoo in the western German city of Cologne. The antelope, which was born on January 5 is of the swamp-dwelling type found throughout Central Africa, centering on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon and parts of Southern Sudan as well as in Ghana, Botswana, Zambia, Gabon, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.
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