Amazing pictures from the animal kingdom
xJackalx
Published
02/28/2012
Amazing, and some funny pictures from all around the animal kingdom. Including some of the stories behind them.
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A macaque monkey in Indonesia took a camera from a wildlife photographer before snapping himself in a variety of poses. The macaque monkey is extremely rare and critically endangered making these pictures all the more special. -
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Researchers dressed in panda costumes put a panda cub into a basket before transferring it to a new living environment at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center on February 20. The panda costumes are part of a new plan to reintroduce captive giant pandas back into the wild. -
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A dog named "Leao" sits for a second consecutive day next to the grave of her owner, Cristina Maria Cesario Santana, who died in catastrophic landslides in Brazil. -
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A black rhino is transported by helicopter in South Africa. This was all part of a relocation plan for black rhinos, meant to move the endangered species to less populated areas so that they have a better shot at survival. -
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An African spurred tortoise with two heads and five legs is displayed in Slovakia. -
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Iris licks her 7-week-old cub during one of their first walks in an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. -
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12 giant panda cubs lie in a crib at the Chengdu Research Base in China. -
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"Frank and Louie" is the world's longest surviving "janus" feline. He's 12-years-old. The cat, who's name is "Frank and Louie", has two mouths, two noses and three eyes. Frank and Louie have one brain, so the faces react in unison. -
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A baby hippo and his mother Nicole are pictured at the Berlin Zoo. -
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Tyson receives dental treatment at a veterinary clinic in Medellin, Colombia. -
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Two-year-old chimpanzee "Do Do" feeds milk to "Aorn", a 60-day-old tiger cub. -
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Zukhro, an employee of a Russian city zoo, walks with Vadik, an 18-month-old male lion. -
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magnificent young lions draped across the branches of an acacia tree. Some are dozing and some are looking disdainfully at me. I was transfixed by these superb, regal creatures. -
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She found the squirrel a few months ago under a tree near her house after a heavy storm. Its legs were broken and a veterinarian told her it likely wouldn't recover. Instead of putting the squirrel down, Danielle adopted it and nursed it back to health. -
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A 7-year-old female elephant named Laxmi reaches with her trunk to touch her 13-month old daughter in India. -
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Jonna Baquillas holds her pet, a rescued cat named Rue, for an event to benefit the Philippine Animal Welfare Society in Manilla, Philippines. -
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Christina Kosorygina weighs a one-month-old jaguar cub at the Leningrad city zoo in St. Petersburg, Russia. -
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Jess, a seven-year-old female cat, looks on as a mouse runs by in a back yard in Gosport, England. -
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A veterinarian and an animal shelter owner in Sao Paulo, Brazil take care of a paralyzed lion. The lion, who's name is Ariel, was born with a degenerative disease that has left him unable to use his four legs for the past year. -
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Loukanikos, the riot dog, watches as riot policemen try to avoid an exploding petrol bomb thrown by protesters during a demonstration in Athens, Greece. -
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Dogs take part in the 2011 Surfing Dog competition in California. -
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