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| A mother leopard shakes herself after bathing with her six cubs in Masai Mara, Kenya |
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| A lioness fights a giant crocodile in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. |
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| A group of dolphins swim in the waves with a swimmer. |
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| People swim with a whale in Sydney’s south. |
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| A two-month-old California sea lion cub plays with its mother at Attica Park in Spata, near Athens. |
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| Ring-tailed lemur at Drusillas Park, East Sussex holding the flag of the United Kingdom. |
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| Baby ring-tailed lemur clings tightly to mother Roxy at Bristol Zoo. |
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| Lemur herd in Bristol. |
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| A newborn baby monkey sits on the hand of a keeper at the zoo in Eberswalde, Germany. |
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| Lympne Wild Harbor near Ashford has added an orange langur to its family of dusky langurs. This baby langur has beautiful fur. |
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| This monkey showed interest in an ice cream cone made from carrots at Bristol Zoo. Lynsey Bugg, curator of mammals at the zoo, said: Putting fruit and vegetables in water to freeze animals is a great way to keep them cool in hot weather. |
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| A chimpanzee at Safaripark Beekse Bergen in the Netherlands licks a block of ice during a heatwave. |
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| A polar bear named Sprinter eats frozen fruit in a swimming pool at the zoo in Hanover, northern Germany. |
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| Panda bears are kept cool at a zoo in Wuhan city, Central China’s Hubei province by eating fruits and vegetables from a large block of ice. |
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| Piglets during a swimming competition held in Nanxiang, Hunan province in southern China. These piglets were selected from a local farm for the competition to welcome the London Olympics. |
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| A baby monkey rides on its mother’s back and tries to keep its head above water as it dives in Jigokudani, Japan. |
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| A mother hippo lies next to her baby in the sunshine at the zoo in Berlin. |
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| Wallows in a muddy lake in Buren, Netherlands. |
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| 45-day-old lion cub named Kalila at the zoo near Amman in Jordan. |
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| Zoo veterinarian Catherine Bergzoll injects a lion cub. The four lion cubs at Paignton Zoo, Devon are all vaccinated regularly for nine weeks. |
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| Jaguars in the US are proving scary. |
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| This rat was discovered while transporting food in its mouth. Its cheek pouches bulge at a cemetery in Vienna. |
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| This Egyptian goose eats bread in a park in Bad Schwalbach, western Germany. |
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| A duck is eating bread and a fish pops its head out of the water to eat. |
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| Two dolphins are somersaulting in the air in the Kessock Canal near Inverness, Scotland. |
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| Lin Ping – the first giant panda born in Thailand – he was allowed to play with the Olympic rings in Chiang Mai province, Northern Thailand. |
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| A baby girl lies in a stroller being pulled by her pet dog in China. |
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| This giraffe is named Dorle, born on July 2, at the zoo in Berlin. |
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| Tourists were scared in a park in Wujin, Jiangsu province, Eastern China when they discovered a giant python swimming in the lake. This snake is the pet of a local man and he often takes his pet to the park to swim. |
