Pets
Look at these cuties and more in this week's best animal photos
Look at these cuties and more in this week's best animal photos
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Spook the lion is seen after he was recaptured after escaping from the Karoo National Park near Beaufor West, South Africa. Last year, a South African lion earned the nickname "Spook" — "Ghost" in the Afrikaans language — after it escaped from a national park and eluded searchers for more than three weeks. Now Spook has broken out again. A helicopter on Tuesday, March 29th, searched for the male lion, which was fitted with a satellite tracking collar after last year's escape from Karoo National Park and should be easier to trace this time, park spokeswoman Fayroush Ludick said. The lion, which escaped overnight Sunday, has become a "problem animal" and will be killed because he knows how to get out of the park and could endanger people, Ludick said.
Image: The Wider Image: Tokyo's Hedgehog cafe
A hedgehog walks next to a mobile phone with a hedgehog cover at the Harry hedgehog cafe in Tokyo, Japan, April 5th. In a new animal-themed cafe, 20 to 30 hedgehogs of different breeds scrabble and snooze in glass tanks in Tokyo's Roppongi entertainment district. Customers have been queuing to play with the prickly mammals, which have long been sold in Japan as pets. The cafe's name Harry alludes to the Japanese word for hedgehog, harinezumi.
Image: Everland Amusement Park Introduce Their New Panda Couple
Giant chinese panda Ai Bao eats bamboo at Everland amusement park on April 7, 2016 in Yongin, South Korea. South Korean amusement park Samsung Everlan introduced their new panda couple, a present given from China to South Korea. The area with the panda couple will be open for public on April 8th.
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Indonesian mahouts (elephant masters) train elephants prior to a daily patrol at a Conservation Respons Unite (CRU) to control elephant-human conflicts in Serbajadi, East Aceh on April 7th. Elephants have joined the front line in the fight against poaching and illegal logging in the dense jungles of Sumatra. Guided by their Indonesian mahouts, they trek alongside rivers, over rough terrain and deep into the rainforest in an area that is home to numerous endangered species, from orangutans to tigers, but which has suffered devastating deforestation in recent years.
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Prehistoric men would have transported deer by ship and over considerable distances to set them up in new regions, according to a study published on April 6th in Proceedings B of the Royal British Society.
Image: Red-eared terrapins bask in the sun in a fountain at the gardens of San Anton Palace, the official residence of Malta's President, in Attard
Red-eared terrapins bask in the sun in a fountain at the gardens of San Anton Palace, the official residence of Malta's President, in Attard, outside Valletta, Malta, April 9th.
Image: A white Bengal tiger cub plays with its sister, a golden Bengal tiger cub, at the Circo de Renato in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua
A white Bengal tiger cub plays with its sister, a golden Bengal tiger cub, at the Circo de Renato in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua April 6th.
