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A young aardvark cuddles with its keeper Mario Gruesser in a Berlin zoo, Germany. The young nocturnal mammal, native in the savannahs of Africa,
was injured by its mother after its birth in May and has been bottle-fed since then.
A baby long-eared bat is hand-reared at Secret Animal Rescue in Somerset. Its ears - not fully formed yet
- will eventually sit on the top of its head, not the sides.
A meerkat uses Lee Whittam's head to get a better view of the surrounding grassland at Jacks Camp in Botswana's Kalahari Desert. When this safari guide and photographer went to call in on a family of meerkats he became their look-out post. Always on the hunt for a high-up perch to look out for danger, the creatures saw the perfect opportunity when Lee Whittam sat down, and scurried up his body to the highest place they could find, the top of his head. They then proceeded to carry on as if he wasn't there.
Two 8-week-old Sumatran tiger cubs hide under their mother, Jaya, during their public debut at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, Washington, USA. The cubs, born on May 25, will be on display intermittently with their mother Jaya. The male and female cubs, weighed around 2 pounds at birth have grown to more than 14 pounds.
Two six month-old white Bengal tigers play in an enclosure at the Nandankana Zoological Park on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India.
Two female clouded leopard cubs, Parti and Jaya, were born on May 14th at the zoo in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. The leopard cubs were born to Luang, a female leopard originally from Howletts Zoo in the UK, and Samar, a male leopard from a zoo in Prague.
A female cheetah looks out of her open air enclosure at the 'Safari and Hollywood Park Schloss Stukenbrock', Germany.
According to information released by the Indian newspaper 'Hindustan Times' India's government has cleared plans to reintroduce the cheetah.
Six month old female polar bear cubs play in a pool at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
A polar bear with a traffic cone on his head refreshes himself in the water in Moscow Zoo. We assume it's the same polar bear that was pictured with a bucket on his head last week. We can't wait to see what he wears next week.
A polar bear dives into the water at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Powell, Ohio.
Giant panda Ju Xiao holds her newborn cub in her mouth at the Bifengxia panda breeding centre in Yaan, Sichuan Province, China.
These zebras became a tangle of black and white stripes as they piled in for a dramatic tussle. The usually placid animals barged in to one another,
baring their teeth and snapping at their opponents. The battle was captured by photographer Sam Dobson.
A four-day-old Zedonk, a rare cross between a zebra and a donkey, stands next to her mother
at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Lumpkin County, Georgia.
A man plays with his pet iguana during the opening ceremony of the Taiwan International Tattoo Convention in Taipei.
A baby elephant welcomes another newborn elephant at the Hanover Zoo in Germany.
Two sparrows fight for food in Urs Schmidli's garden in Scherz, Switzerland. The male sparrow seemed to
have had enough of the female's squawking and rudely closed her beak with his tiny talons.
A pair of fledgling barn swallows plead for breakfast from a perch above the seventh hole at the Eugene, Oregon, Country Club.
Photographers take pictures underneath a rescue dog as it jumps across an obstacle during a demonstration
by the Engineering Regiment of the PLA for international media at a base located on the outskirts of Beijing.
A pet dog walks in floodwaters at a viewing platform in front of which the Yangtze River converges with the Han River in Wuhan,
capital of central China's Hubei Province.
Loughlin Deegan, Artistic Director of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival, sits with a Great Dane named Toby dressed as Hamlet at the launch of the festival at the Gaiety Theatre. The festival, which runs from September 30th to October 17th, features a play entitled The Rehearsal,
Playing the Great Dane.
A Sphynx cat named Phoenix and a Chinese Crested dog named Maggie, who appear in the film, attend the premiere of Cats & Dogs,
The Revenge of Kitty Galore in Los Angeles.
A cat shows interest in a frog sitting on a rock in the eastern German town of Sieversdorf.
Sheep graze close to electricity-generating wind turbines as a rainbow is seen in the background near the northern German town of Husum.
A photo released by the Sabah Wildlife Department shows a rare hairy-nosed otter (Lutra sumatrana) that was photographed by a remote camera in Deramakot Forest Reserve in Sabah, Malaysia. The last confirmed record of the hairy-nosed otter in Sabah is a museum specimen
collected over 100 years ago.
