The Week in Pictures: Animals August 31 – September 7 2013
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A dog stands next to a Panda figure in Frankfurt am Main, central Germany, on September 2, 2013. The environmental organisation WWF Germany (World Wildlife Fund) wants to draw attention to the shriniking number of just 1600 animals left of this endangered specie. (Photo by Frank Rumpenhorst/AFP Photo/DPA)
![Rabbit [Little] jumps during the Kaninhop (rabbit-jumping) competition in Weissenbrunn vorm Wald, Germany, on September 1, 2013. Competitors take part in three different categories with an obstacle height ranging between 25 and 40 centimeters. (Photo by Jens Meyer/Associated Press)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000fa7c_big.jpg "Rabbit [Little] jumps during the Kaninhop (rabbit-jumping) competition in Weissenbrunn vorm Wald, Germany, on September 1, 2013. Competitors take part in three different categories with an obstacle height ranging between 25 and 40 centimeters. (Photo by Jens Meyer/Associated Press)")
Rabbit [Little] jumps during the Kaninhop (rabbit-jumping) competition in Weissenbrunn vorm Wald, Germany, on September 1, 2013. Competitors take part in three different categories with an obstacle height ranging between 25 and 40 centimeters. (Photo by Jens Meyer/Associated Press)
![Rabbit [Lady Trouble] jumps during the Kaninhop competition in Weissenbrunn vorm Wald, Germany, on September 1, 2013. (Photo by Jens Meyer/Associated Press)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000fa7b_big.jpg "Rabbit [Lady Trouble] jumps during the Kaninhop competition in Weissenbrunn vorm Wald, Germany, on September 1, 2013. (Photo by Jens Meyer/Associated Press)")
Rabbit [Lady Trouble] jumps during the Kaninhop competition in Weissenbrunn vorm Wald, Germany, on September 1, 2013. (Photo by Jens Meyer/Associated Press)
Kai Kai, a male Giant Panda sniffs at his custom-made birthday cake of bamboo, flowers and vegetables, Friday, September 6, 2013, at the River Safari, part of the Wildlife Reserves and the Singapore Zoo in Singapore. Week-long celebrations were held to mark the first year anniversary of the arrival of two Giant Pandas from China, Kai Kai, and Jia Jia, who incidentally are celebrating their 6th and 5th birthdays, respectively this month. These Giant Pandas are on loan for 10-years as part of a collaboration between China and Singapore to raise awareness for the conservation of these critically endangered species.(Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)
![This recent undated handout photo received on September 2, 2013 from environmental group Conversation International shows a recently discovered species of [walking] shark in the waters off Halmahera, one of the Maluku Islands in Indonesia that lie west of New Guinea. The brown and white bamboo shark pushes itself along the ocean floor as it forages for small fish and crustaceans at night, said Conservation International, whose scientists were involved in its discovery. (Photo by Mark Erdmann/AFP Photo/Conservation International)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000fa7e_big.jpg "This recent undated handout photo received on September 2, 2013 from environmental group Conversation International shows a recently discovered species of [walking] shark in the waters off Halmahera, one of the Maluku Islands in Indonesia that lie west of New Guinea. The brown and white bamboo shark pushes itself along the ocean floor as it forages for small fish and crustaceans at night, said Conservation International, whose scientists were involved in its discovery. (Photo by Mark Erdmann/AFP Photo/Conservation International)")
This recent undated handout photo received on September 2, 2013 from environmental group Conversation International shows a recently discovered species of [walking] shark in the waters off Halmahera, one of the Maluku Islands in Indonesia that lie west of New Guinea. The brown and white bamboo shark pushes itself along the ocean floor as it forages for small fish and crustaceans at night, said Conservation International, whose scientists were involved in its discovery. (Photo by Mark Erdmann/AFP Photo/Conservation International)
Pigs compete in a race during the Los Angeles County Fair 2013 in Pomona, California on September 4, 2013. The LA County Fair kicked off on August 30 and will run through September 29. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP Photo)
A feeder holds a giant panda cub who was the only survivor of the triplets given birth by giant panda Jiaozi in August, at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province September 5, 2013. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)
A Komondor, a traditional Hungarian guard dog, shakes its long fur in Bodony, 130 km northeast of Budapest September 3, 2013. Komondors, a traditional Hungarian breed, have a fur coat that weighs 30 kg (60 pounds). The kennel has won several awards but makes hardly any money as dogs without pedigrees have displaced pure breeds from the market in recent years. (Photo by Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)
Pancho the Pelican stands with members of his adopted family, Magela Guerrero, center, her husband Freddy de Leon, puppy Rome, and dog Duke at their home in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, September 5, 2013. Guerrero and de Leon's home is a veritable menagerie of animals that they say coexist peacefully despite including both predators and potential prey: three dogs and a cat, a hawk, another bird of prey called a kestrel, a parrot, three turtles and a goose. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)
A volunteer feeds glucose water to a Cattle Egret chick at an animal hospital outskirts of the Western Ahmedabad, India, on September 4, 2013. At least 400 Cattle Egrets were rescued and more than 100 died after an illegal tree cutting west of the city. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)
A British vet, volunteering at the Asha Foundation Animal Shelter and Hospital, examines a rescued young Cattle Egret on arrival at the shelter at Hathijan village, near Ahmedabad, India, on September 4, 2013. (Photo by Panthakysam Panthaky/AFP Photo)
Undated handout photo issued by the British Wildlife Photography Awards of a great tit in flight by James Amess which won the Wildpix Young People's 12-18 Award in the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2013. (Photo by Joseph Amess/BWPA/PA Wire)
Breeders prepares his frisé dogs for the judging ring at the Seoul FCI International Dog Show, on September 1, 2013. (Photo by Truth Leem/AFP Photo)
![Undated handout photo issued by the British Wildlife Photography Awards of [In the Living Room] by George Karbus, winner of the British Wildlife Photographer category in the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2013. (Photo by George Karbus/BWPA/PA Wire)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000fa87_big.jpg "Undated handout photo issued by the British Wildlife Photography Awards of [In the Living Room] by George Karbus, winner of the British Wildlife Photographer category in the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2013. (Photo by George Karbus/BWPA/PA Wire)")
Undated handout photo issued by the British Wildlife Photography Awards of [In the Living Room] by George Karbus, winner of the British Wildlife Photographer category in the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2013. (Photo by George Karbus/BWPA/PA Wire)
![Undated handout photo issued by the British Wildlife Photography Awards of [Deadly Rivals] by Robin Orrow, winner of the Animal Behaviour category in the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2013. (Photo by Robin Orrow/BWPA/PA Wire)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/fact/2013/0000fa88_big.jpg "Undated handout photo issued by the British Wildlife Photography Awards of [Deadly Rivals] by Robin Orrow, winner of the Animal Behaviour category in the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2013. (Photo by Robin Orrow/BWPA/PA Wire)")
Undated handout photo issued by the British Wildlife Photography Awards of [Deadly Rivals] by Robin Orrow, winner of the Animal Behaviour category in the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2013. (Photo by Robin Orrow/BWPA/PA Wire)
In this photo released to Reuters on Tuesday, Dustin Bockman is pictured with his record setting alligator, weighing 727 pounds and measuring 13 feet, captured in Vicksburg, Mississippi on September 1, 2013. Bockman, a 27-year-old UPS driver, and his crew spotted the mammoth creature in the Mississippi River and trailed it for two hours before getting close enough to spear it. It took another two hours to hook it with a second line and noose its neck. (Photo by Ryan Bockman/Handout via Reuters)
This Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks photo shows Cole Landers, Dustin Bockman and Ryan Bockman with their record setting alligator. (Photo by Ricky Flynt/Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks)
In this picture made available Wednesday, September 4, 2013, a man, name not given, rides his bike with his dog Django, in a basket through Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, September 3, 2013. (Photo by Markus Schreiber/AP Photo)
Melanie Vervaeke of Belgium works on her Bedlington Terrier dog in the scissoring open class at the German international dog grooming championships in Stadtroda, central Germany, Saturday, August 31, 2013. (Photo by Jens Meyer/AP Photo)
A tiger cub sits at a Bali zoo in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, September 4, 2013. The tiger was born on August 22. (Photo by Firdia Lisnawati/AP Photo)
You can see the fear and panic in these baby mountain goats eyes as the storm clouds roll in over the Rocky mountains. (Photo by Verdon Tomajko/Solent News & Photo Agency)
A baby chimpanzee and her mother stay in the shade to avoid the hot weather ,at the Chimpanzees of Mahale Mountains Zoo exhibit at Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens, on September 4, 2013. (Photo by Nick Ut/Associated Press)
A defiant baby orangutan clings to a tree branch and demands more playtime. (Photo by Ruoso/Minden Pictures/Solent News)
Residents and volunteers help remove a dead whale shark that was swept ashore Thursday, September 5, 2013 at the coastal township of Tanza, Cavite province south of Manila, Philippines. Officials at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources have yet to conduct a necropsy of the largest fish on the planet which was found off Manila Bay at the township where an oil spill occurred last month. (Photo by Bullit Marquez/AP Photo)
This combo photo shows newly-born giant panda twin cub B at the Atlanta Zoo in Atlanta, the United States, on September 5, 2013. (Photo by Caters News Agency)
Opossums on their mothers back at a game reserve in Central Minnesota, USA, on September 2, 2013. (Photo by Caters News Agency)
A wasp drinking a water droplet, on September 5, 2013. (Photo by Caters News Agency)
The deers in Bushy Park, London have been enjoying the hot weather and even taking a dip to cool themselves off, on September 6, 2013. (Photo by Caters News Agency)
Inside the mouth of the world's biggest fish, the whale shark. (Photo by Pash Baker/HotSpot Media)
Jellyfishes swim in water at the Ocean Park in Hong Kong, China, on September 6, 2013. (Photo by Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft Media)
Mother Marshbuck licks her newborn fawn at Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany, on September 6, 2013. (Photo by Imago/Barcroft Media)
In this Monday, December 3, 2012 photo provided by Guinness World Records, Colonel Meow, the cat with the longest fur, poses for a photo in Los Angeles. Colonel Meow has 9-inch (23-centimeter) hair. That's good enough to put the Himalayan-Persian mix into the 2014 edition of the Guinness World Records book, due out September 12, 2013. Owners Anne Marie Avey and Eric Rosario, of Los Angeles, say the 2-year-old cat got its name because of his epic frown and fur. It takes both of them to brush the cat's fur three times a week. (Photo by Ryan Schude/AP Photo/Guinness World Records)
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