Pets
Animal Tracks: July 25 - August 1
From sweet seals to zebra stripes and baby elephants to a priceless pug, get your cuteness fix with irresistible photos of creatures great and small.
Fancy flamingo
A flamingo is photographed at the Dresden Zoo on July 31.
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He gives a hoot
A young great grey owl hoots next to its father at the Zoologischer Garten zoo in Berlin on July 31.
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Seeing stripes
A young zebra stands next to its mother at the Zoologischer Garten zoo in Berlin on July 31.
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Middle-aged motherhood
Female giant panda Bai Yun is seen after giving birth to a cub at the San Diego Zoo on July 29. Twenty-year-old Bai Yun is one of the oldest giant pandas known to give birth to a cub. This is her sixth cub, setting a record for the most cubs born at a breeding facility outside of China.
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Come into my parlor...
A predatory spider waits to ambush an unsuspecting insect on a Queen Anne's lace flower growing in a field near Roseburg, Ore., on July 29.
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Seal appeal
Young seals look up at the zoo in Friedrichskoog, northern Germany, on July 29.
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Charismatic cheetahs
Two 3-month-old cheetah cubs get some shade from the heat at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., on July 28.
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Dogs ARE allowed!
A Japanese man and his pet dog, Marine, take a dip at Takeno Beach on July 28 in Toyooka, Japan. The beach is open for dogs and their owners each summer between the months of June and September.
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Follow the leader
A duck walks out of a pound followed by five ducklings at the 18th Evian Masters golf tournament in Evian, France on July 28.
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Pint-size pachaderm
Female elephant baby Bindi explores at the zoo in Cologne, Germany, on July 27. The elephant calf was born two days earlier to mother Shu Tu Zar.
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Getting nosey
A polar bear swims in the water at the Botanic Garden Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany.
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Everybody in the water!
Wild ponies are herded into the Assateague Channel for their annual swim to Chincoteague Island on July 25 in Chincoteague, Va. Every year the wild ponies are rounded up to be auctioned off by the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company.
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Priceless pug
Female pug Emma, aged 15 weeks, sits in the sun at the Romano-Guardini-Square in Mainz, Germany.
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Stick in the mud
A pig lies in the mud of the "best mud pool" of the Netherlands, in Buren, on July 26. This particular mud pool was chosen by a Dutch animal welfare organization as the best place for a pig to cool off during warm summer days because of its perfect size, depth and, well, muddiness.
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Whoo are you looking at?
An owl is seen at Jordan's zoo near Amman on July 26.
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Pecking order
Gannets gather on their nesting grounds on Bonaventure Island in Perce, Quebec.
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Give me a hand
A zookeeper holds a young marmoset in her hand at the zoo in Eberswalde, eastern Germany.
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Wild and woolly
Seven-day-old vicugna Carlo, stands next to his mother Queda at the Zoo in Hanover, Germany. Vicugnas live in the Andes and were hunted for their wool.
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I am the (baby) walrus
The Alaska SeaLife Center is rehabilitating a male Pacific walrus calf that stranded near Barrow on July 21, 2012. The calf, estimated at 4 to 6 weeks old, was found by local fishermen.
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