The Week in Pictures: Animals July 6 – July 12 2013 (31 Photos)
Author: peter Date: 14 November, Category: Fact, Visits 2772
Five days old south American sea lion cub Alida shouts to its mother Kelo at [Tiergarten Schoenbrunn] Zoo in Vienna, July 11, 2013. (Photo by Leonhard Foeger/Reuters)
Two young Snowy Owls sit next to each other at the Zoo in Hannover, Germany, on July 12, 2013. (Photo by Jochen Luebke/Dpa)
A polar bear shakes his head as he takes a bath in a pool of his enclosure on July 9, 2013 at the Zoo in Berlin. Temperatures in the German capital are forecast to reach up to 28 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Matthias Balk/AFP Photo)
Goldfish swim in a tank as part of art exhibition [Art Aquarium] during a press preview in Tokyo on July 12, 2012. The exhibition, designed by aquarist Hidetomo Kimura, will begin from July 13 through September 23. (Photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP Photo)
A cow chasing revellers jumps into the sea during the [Bous a la Mar] festival in the eastern Spanish coastal town of Denia July 8, 2013. During this festival, revellers emerging from protective barriers provoke bulls to chase them until they both fall into sea. The bulls are then rescued by small boats which will tow them to safety. (Photo by Heino Kalis/Reuters)
An excavator removes the carcass of an elephant from a paddy field after it was electrocuted at Keribakori village, in Nagaon district in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, July 8, 2013. Two elephants were electrocuted by a falling power line in a paddy field on Monday, forest officials said. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)
A child touches the hand of a monkey at the Rossy Whalther's Zoo in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on July 11, 2013. (Photo by Orlando Sierra/Reuters)
Dublin Zoo is celebrating the birth of a Brazilian tapir. The male calf, born on July 1st to mum Rio and dad Marmaduke, is the breeding pair's second calf and has an older brother, MJ, who was born at Dublin Zoo in June 2012. The story of Dublin Zoo's tapirs is heartwarming; two years ago Rio arrived at Dublin Zoo to join Marmaduke the male tapir who had recently lost his long term female partner Hillary, who died. Just over one year on Dublin Zoo was celebrating the birth of the pair's first born calf and 12 months later they welcome their second calf. (Photo by Patrick Bolger/Dublin Zoo)
An undated photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society shows a newborn Southern pudu, native to Chile and Argentina, a member of the world's smallest deer species, that was born at the Queens Zoo last month in New York. The doe weighed 1 pound at birth. (Photo by Julie Larsen Maher/Wildlife Conservation Society)
An endangered Southern Pudu, the world's smallest deer, is seen at The Wildlife Conservation Society's Queens Zoo in New York July 9, 2013. The Southern Pudu, which is native to Chile and Argentina, doe was born at the Zoo weighing one pound and could weigh as much as 20 pounds as an adult. (Photo by Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
Tide, a male manatee weighing 615 lbs, is moved from the David A. Straz Jr. Manatee Hospital at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, on July 9, 2013. Five manatees were transported in three trucks to a boat ramp in Cape Coral near their rescue location. The release of five manatees from the Zoo was the most in one day in the hospital's history. (Photo by Eve Edelheit/The Tampa Bay Times)
Casey, a certified therapy dog with the Eugene Fire Department, joins the honor guard watching over the remains of John Percin Jr., a West Linn, Oregon native killed fighting a wildfire near Prescott, Arizona, in Lake Oswego, Oregon, on July 10, 2013. Percin was among the 19 firefighters of the Granite Mountain Hotshots that were killed battling the Yarnell Fire on June 30. (Photo by Michael Lloyd/The Oregonian)
Ryder Wright gets thrown off a steer in the junior steer riding event during the 101st Calgary Stampede rodeo in Calgary, Alberta, July 7, 2013. (Photo by Todd Korol/Reuters)
Barn Owl chicks (chouette-effraie) are pictured at the zoo of the French eastern city of Amneville, on July 8, 2013. (Photo by Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP Photo)
A fighting cow leaps over revelers into the bull ring after the fourth running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 10, 2013. (Photo by Joseba Etxaburu/Reuters)
A runner gets gored by a bull on Estafeta street during the sixth running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 12, 2013. Four runners were gored in a run that lasted four minutes and fifty seven seconds, according to local media. (Photo by Susana Vera/Reuters)
A Highland calf waits in her stall at the Great Yorkshire Show on July 9, 2013 in Harrogate, England. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
The newest resident of the Memphis Zoo, Binti, explores the hippopotamus enclosure on her second day on exhibit, on July 11, 2013. The 15-year-old, 3,300 pound hippo arrived from Disney's Animal Kingdom and joins long-time zoo resident Splish as a companion on display. Both will be moved to the Zambezi River Hippo Camp when the new exhibit opens in 2015. (Photo by Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
A man rides a bicycle as he carries his dog on his shoulders in Mumbai July 9, 2013. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
Dogs play in the inground pool in one of the many large play areas at Fuzzy Buddies in Tampa. Fuzzy Buddies, [a recreational resort for pets], offers daycare, boarding and grooming, on July 11, 2013. (Photo by Eve EdelheitThe Tampa Bay Times)
On July 9, 2013 Chicago's Shedd Aquarium announced the June birth of a healthy Rockhopper penguin chick and released this photo of the baby's first photo op. (Photo by Brenna Hernandez/Shedd Aquarium)
Nine-day-old lioness cubs are held by zoo keepers at Himeji Central Park on July 9, 2013 in Himeji, Japan. The seven white lioness cubs, given birth by three female South African Lions were born on June 6th, 26th and 30th. The cubs will be on public display for the first time later this week. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)
Californian Sea Lions Bali (left) and Bella as they balance tennis balls as staff at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling, on July 6, 2013. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA)
A newly-born panda cub of giant panda Yuan Yuan being fed by a zookeeper in an incubator at Taipei City Zoo, on July 9, 2013. (Photo by AFP Photo)
This handout photograph released by Taipei City Zoo on July 11, 2013 shows a newly-born panda cub of giant panda Yuan Yuan in an incubator at Taipei Zoo in Taipei. The public will have to wait three months to catch a glimpse of the first panda born in Taiwan, officials said after she was successfully delivered by parents who were gifted from China. (Photo by AFP Photo/Taipei City Zoo)
This excitable macaque pulled his friend's tail as they larked about on a lake during a play fight, on July 11, 2013. (Photo by Barney Wilczak/Photoshot/Solent News & Photo Agenc)
A lion enjoys an ice block at Taipei Zoo, on July 11, 2013. (Photo by Mandy Cheng/AFP Photo)
A lemure pup clings to the fur of mother [Vintana] in the Zoo in Dresden, eastern Germany, on July 12, 2013. (Photo by Sebastian Kahnert/AFP Photo)
Three lion cubs explore their enclosure at Monarto Zoo on July 8, 2013 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Getty Images)
A yellowtail crownfish swims near a sea anemone at Keikyu Aburatsubo Marine Park in Miura, south of Tokyo, on July 7, 2013. (Photo by Itsuo Inouye/Associated Press)
Three-month-old beaver [Momo] swims at a wild animal facility in Klein Offenseth-Sparrieshoop, Germany. Momo was found alone on a dike after extensive flooding across the country. (Photo by Axel Heimken/Dpa)