The Week in Pictures: Animals June 7 – June 14 2013
Author: peter Date: 14 November, Category: Fact, Visits 2650
A wild macaque monkey eats fruit dropped by pedestrians in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on June 11, 2013. (Photo by Mohd Rasfan/AFP Photo)
Zebras are pictured in the Zoo in Frankfurt am Main western Germany, on June 11, 2013. (Photo by Frank Rumpenhorst/AFP Photo)
A sparrow stands on the top of a decorative sculpture [Babushka sitting on a bench] set in one of parks of Kiev, on June 13, 2013. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)
Chelsea Wan, the manager of Singapore's Jurong Frog Farm, shows off a large female North American Bullfrog, on June 11, 2013. The farm started in 1981 and is Singapore's only frog farm; it has seen a boom in sales in the past year after developing the only fresh, locally made Hashima or Snow Jelly. Traditionally imported from China, Hashima is made from the bullfrog's oviducts and is classed as one of the top five most valued Chinese ingredients. It is said to help skin complexion as well as strengthen the kidneys and lungs. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
A horsewoman leads thousands of sheep at the Old Port during a simulation of a transhumance, the seasonal migration when herds are moved to grazing grounds, as part of festivities to mark Marseille-Provence being named the 2013 European Capital of Culture in Marseille June 9, 2013. (Photo by Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)
A domesticated pet baby owl rests on a hot water bottle in a Yangon restaurant as workers prepare food in the background, Myanmar, Friday, June 14, 2013. (Photo by Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP Photo)
The Little Polar fox in Zoo de Mulhouse. (Photo by Sebastien Bozon/AFP Photo)
South Korea has opened its first research center on otters. The center was opened to preserve and protect the otters. (Photo by Yonhap News/NEWSCOM/SIPA)
A variety of dogs are put through their paces at the Churchill Insurance Doggy Boot Camp at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in south London, to celebrate its sponsorship of ITV's Animal Heroes, on June 10, 2013. The insurers are trialing the canine camp for dog owners to see if their pet has what it takes to be a military hero. (Photo by David Parry/PA Wire)
A meerkat yawns on June 13, 2013 at the Sababurg animal park near Hofgeismar, western Germany. (Photo by Uwe Zucchi/AFP Photo)
Men grab a wild colt during the [Rapa Das Bestas] in Mougas, Spain, on June 9, 2013. Rapa das bestas, or Shearing of the Beasts, is a tradition dating from the 15th century and consists of gathering wild horses in the mountains, placing them in a corral, shaving them and branding them before releasing them in the mountains until the next year. (Photo by Daniel Ochoa de Olza/Associated Press)
This beautiful image of a snail and a water bubble was made by photographer Vyacheslav Mischenko Ukraine. (Photo by Vyacheslav Mischenko/SIPA)
Lions performs at Ukraine's National Circus in Kiev, on June 9, 2013. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/Associated Press)
A zookeeper feeds a hippopotamus with forage wrapped in the shape of zongzi, a traditional Chinese food made from rice wrapped in bamboo leaves, to celebrate the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival at a wildlife Zoo in Shenzhen, China, on June 10, 2013. (Photo by China Daily/Reuters)
CJ, a Sumatran tiger, made its first public appearance at the Sacramento Zoo on June 11, 2013. (Photo by Randall Benton/AP Photo/SIPA)
Iban, a 25-year-old male Sumatran orangutan, uses a straw to drink milk at the Ichikawa Zoological and Botanical Garden in Ichikawa, near Tokyo, on June 9, 2013. (Photo by Itsuo Inouye/Associated Press)
A swan chick swims on the Main River in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on June 7, 2013. (Photo by Boris Roessler/AFP Photo)
A tiger is pictured in the Zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 11, 2013. (Photo by Frank Rumpenhorst/AFP Photo)
A wild macaque monkey carries a fruit left by pedestrians in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on June 11, 2013. (Photo by Mohd Rasfan/AFP Photo)
Two deer stand on a bridge in floodwaters of the Elbe river in Schoenhausen, Germany, on June 12, 2013. Disastrous floods in Germany began to subside Wednesday after leaving at least 19 people dead in central Europe, as Chancellor Angela Merkel prepared to make her fourth visit to the stricken region. (Photo by Christian Charisius/Getty Images)
Volunteer horse trainer Kyle Kimball helps guide a horse into a trailer while rancher Alan Erickson evacuates five of his horses from his property along Shiloh Ranch Drive to protect them from the approaching Black Forest Fire in Colorado Springs, on June 13, 2013. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Fisherman Gernot Quaschny rescues a deer from the floods near Schoenhausen, Germany, on June 12, 2013. A broken dike at the River Elbe caused several villages in the area to be flooded. (Photo by Christian Charisius/Dpa)