Kambiri, a baby pygmy hippo calf, explores her den at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. The hippo calf is the first to be reared by its mother at the Taronga Zoo in over 20 years.
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Two hippopotamus play in the water at a zoo in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province
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Polar bear Yoghi drinks from the pool of his new enclosure at the animal park Hellabrunn in Munich, southern Germany.
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A mother Persian onager and one of her foals are seen at the Wilds, a 10,000-acre conservation facility near Cumberland, Ohio.
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A Pygmy Marmoset is seen among of the hairs of a keeper at a primates rescue and rehabilitation center near Santiago. The Pygmy Marmoset, known as one of the world’s smallest monkeys and under danger of extinction, was confiscated after being found inside the clothes of a Peruvian citizen during a highway police check at the northern city of Antofagasta.
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Rothschild giraffe Nora is seen with her newborn foal at Prague’s zoo. The male baby giraffe was born on July 24.
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An American bald eagle casts a wary eye towards the camera at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Ore.
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Baby Chilean Flamingos wander in the middle of the Uyuni salt desert in southern Bolivia.
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Male polar bears ‘Arktos’ and ‘Sprinter’ fight with each other in the zoo of Hanover, Germany. The two, who had lived seperately until now, have been brought together into one enclosure last week.
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A Venus fly-trap, Actinoscyphia species, is seen in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of 1500 m.
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Zeina, the three-year-old lioness, plays with her litter of her newborn cubs inside their cage at Jordan’s zoo in Yaduda. According to the zoo, the four two-month-old cubs made their first public appearance on Wednesday after lions Zeina and Kasser, which originate from Africa, gave birth to them.
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This dragonfish even has teeth on its tongue! They would be terrifying animals if they weren’t the size of a banana.
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AÂ Siberian tiger plays with a ball at the zoo in Leipzig, eastern Germany. In the wild, Siberian tigers live in Western and Central Asia and Eastern Russia.
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Deep-sea jellyfish. when attacked by a predator, it uses bioluminescence to “scream” for help. This amazing light show is known as a burglar alarm display.
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This new species of hydatinid gastropod was discovered from a sperm whale carcass in the deep sea off Cape Nomamisaki, Kagoshima Whale Fall, Japan.
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A colorful lorikeet peers out of its’ birdhouse at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Ore.
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A giant panda plays at the Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan province.
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An Amur leopard stands on a log at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Ore. Amur leopards are larger with lighter fur and bigger spots than leopards living in Africa and the rest of Asia. Amur leopards are critically endangered with no more than 35 living in the wild and 200 in zoos around the world.
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