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Two rival male lions fight over a female in front a group of tourists travelling
in the Masai Mara national park in Kenya. Photographer Olga Kirillova captured
the drama on camera.
The picture was taken at the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna by Romashchenko Elena, a
maths teacher. She said: "I noticed how a little monkey was sat on the goat's
back and was surprised the goat wasn't annoyed. The monkey started looking
through the goat's fur with its hands. I presume it was eating any sort of ticks
or fleas. Perhaps that's why the goat was happy to have the monkey on its back."
A man bathes his performing monkey in a water sprinkler of a roadside garden in
Chennai, India
Amateur photographer Vedran Vidak has captured the fighting stallions of the
Cincar mountains in Bosnia. They spend the winters hidden in the mountain
valleys only reappearing again in the spring to fight for ascendancy on the
grassy plains. Vedran has spent days tracking the beautiful stallions over the
last few years to photograph them fighting for control of the herd.
Spring has sprung: John the baby goat makes friends with Charlie the chick at
Reddish Vale School Farm near Stockport
This newborn chick, who is just a few weeks old, has apparently struck up an
unlikely friendship with a kitten who helps protect her from pesky vermin.
Sergey Dmitriev, from Barnaul, Russia, said: "We want to help restore the
ancient Pavlovskaya hens because they are a very rare breed. Sometimes they can
get attacked by rats and mice who get into the coops and kill them. We usually
have to protect them like they are our own children - but recently our pet cat
Mikeal has protected them for us. He will follow them everywhere they go
whenever we let them out to make sure they are safe."
A harvest mouse seems to be enjoying the sunshine as it clambers up a daffodil.
The picture was taken by amateur photographer Matt Binstead in Lingfield,
Surrey.
A meerkat investigates a daffodil at at Knowsley Safari Park, in Merseyside,
Liverpool
Wallaby joey Pip plays amongst the daffodils at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, Dunstable,
Bedfordshire. The orphaned wallaby is being hand-reared by a zoo keeper after
being abandoned by her mother.
A giant panda cub plays with the boots of her feeder at the enclosure at the
Giant Panda Research and Conservation Centre in Chengdu, in southwest China's
Sichuan province
Alison MacLean of the Edinburgh Zoo meets a young Giant Panda at the Bifengxia
Panda Centre near the city of Ya'an in Sichuan Province, China. A breeding pair
of pandas, Tian Tian and Yang Guang, are being loaned to Edinburgh Zoo in an
historic agreement between the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and the
Chinese Wildlife Conservation Society. The breeding pair will be the first Giant
Pandas in the UK for 17 years and Alison will be their keeper. It is hoped that
the pair will mate during the ten years they spend at Edinburgh. If they mate
successfully, the cub will be returned to China once it reaches two years old.
The panda in this picture is about 18 months old. Tian Tian translates as 'Sweet
Honey' and Yang Guang as 'Sunshine'.
One of two polar bear cubs, namd Gregor and Aleut, licks its mother Vera at the
Tiergarten zoo in Nuremberg, southern Germany...
Two polar bear cubs Gregor and Aleut play at the Tiergarten zoo in Nuremberg
Einstein, the world's smallest stallion, stands next to Playboy the horse in
Barnstead, New Hampshire, USA. Standing only 20 inches tall, Einstein will mark
his first birthday with a book, 'A Friend for Einstein'
An elephant rears up on her hind legs to pluck some fruit from a tall tree.
British photographer Stephen Blake captured the scene in Zambia.
An employee bottle-feeds a one-week-old meerkat cub at the Royev Ruchey zoo in
the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The cub is one of a litter of three being
hand-reared after they were rejected by their mother.
A new arrival at Busch Gardens Tampa - a baby cheetah - is pictured at the
attraction in Florida, USA
Two 13-week-old lion cubs sit with their mother Shiva at Bristol Zoo Gardens
A bottlenose dolphin leaps for the first time in many months, welcoming spring
to Tobermory Bay on the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
An inquisitive beluga whale ends up with a squashed nose as it tries to get
closer to visitors at an aquarium. The curious creature swam straight at the
glass when he spotted people watching him from the other side, flattening his
nose and chin as he struggled to get a better look. The sight was captured by
photographer Nicole Perkins at an aquarium in Connecticut, USA.
A tiger shark with a satellite tag on its dorsal fin swims in the Caribbean.
Shark researcher Dr Neil Hammerschlag and his team are able to carry out this
delicate work in just five minutes to ensure safety for his team and the shark.
Since May last year they have tagged and tracked a total of 25 tiger sharks and
25 other sharks, including the endangered hammerhead and bull sharks at a cost
of $200,000 (122,000). Their research will provide a greater understanding of
shark migration, breeding and conservation.
Senior Technician Carly Daniels studies a three-month-old lobster that is ready
for release. A new scheme to repopulate the seas of Britain with thousands of
young lobsters has put out an appeal for divers to come forward to help release
the tiny creatures.
Senior Technician Carly Daniels holds a female lobster carrying thousands of
eggs
A stork flips a fish around in its beak to make it easier to swallow. Bruce
Robinson photographed the bird feeding in the Merritt Island National Wildlife
Refuge near Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Not quite old enough to have shed the feathers of his youth, the one
brown-headed bald eagle stands out among his family. The juvenile bird looks the
odd-one-out as he nestles among the group. Photographer Pam Mullins snapped this
shot near her home in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada.
Three stork nests are pictured on the church tower in Kandern-Holzen, Germany
Steven Sykes feeds an 18-month-old Yemen Chameleon called Karma, the latest
arrival at the Kirkley Hall zoological gardens in Northumberland, which will
open to the public for the first time this May
Bristol Zoo’s twin Asiatic lion cubs are six months old and growing up quickly.
The cubs were born on Christmas Eve to first time mum, Shiva, and dad Kamal.
Their birth is a conservation breeding success for these critically endangered
animals
 A lion cub plays with its mother's tail at the Hagenbeck zoo in the northern
German city of Hamburg
 One-year-old African white lion cub Almaz rests inside its enclosure at the
Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk
 An Indochinese tiger cub sits next to its mother, Mi, in their enclosure at
Hanoi Zoo. Mi gave birth to four cubs on April 2, 2011, becoming the first tiger
at Hanoi zoo to breed in captivity
Sumatran tiger Kirana looks after her three-day-old cub at Chester Zoo
 An old tigress (L) is confronted by a younger stronger tiger over a sambar deer
kill in Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan, India
 Two tiger cubs that have been nursed from birth by a surrogate dog mother are
growing up fast. The two cubs, which are almost three months old, are currently
being weaned onto solid food...
 These are two of the seven dingo puppies born at Featherdale Wildlife Park in
Sydney. The six girls and one boy born at a NSW wildlife park are almost ready
to meet the public after learning the ropes from dad Ernie and mum Tia
 A border collie catches a frisbee during the Skyhoundz Disc Dog European
Championship competition in Budapest, Hungary
 At 85kg, black labrador Sampson is so overweight he cannot be safely exercised.
His bulging blood-shot eyes are caused by fatty tissue around his head and high
blood pressure. The dog, 42kg above his normal weight, is so fat and unfit that
Animal Aid staff fear it will take him until Christmas to shed half his massive
frame. Sampson has to be transported to a Melbourne shelter in the Animal Aid
van for his weekly weigh-in because he can't comfortably fit on the back seat of
a family sedan. 'He's the size of a small heifer,' Animal Aid veterinarian Amber
Lavery said.
 Ros Boisseau leads Mog the cat through a swimming session at Hawksland
hydrotherapy pool, near Wadebridge, Cornwall. A cat that was left with both
front legs completely paralysed following a horrific car accident is learning to
walk again - by taking swimming lessons. Mog sustained horrific injuries and
spent six weeks on a drip after a car smashed into him in a hit-and-run incident
in February.
 A bear cub hides behind farmer Tian Shougui's legs in Yukong village, Yibin
city, Sichuan province, China. The farmer has been taking care of twin black
bears at his house since he found them on his farm in April. One is male, the
other is female. The twins have fully recovered with the loving care from their
adoptive 'mother' Tian. 'I just want to raise them up to some 10 to 15 kg and
then I will let them go free,' said Tian.
 Frodo the female koala joey after she was released back into the wild near
Brisbane, Australia. Frodo was nursed back into health after suffering a
fractured skull and internal injuries from 15 shotgun pellets found lodged in
her body in November 2010
 Luna the Grey-headed Flying Fox keeps warm during the cold winter weather at
Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria, Australia
 Photographer Tom Whetten spends hours setting up his camera and lights to
capture bats hunting. But he says it would take much longer if he didnt spend
time meticulously watching the movement of his subjects and understanding how
they think
 Young elephant 'Nelly' kicks a football during an event to predict the result of
the upcoming Women's World Cup soccer match between Germany and Canada, at the
safari-park in Hodenhagen, Lower-Saxony June 24, 2011. The 'elephant oracle'
announced a German victory by 1-0
 An elephant distributes a pamphlet to a Thai woman during a promotional event
for the general election in Auytthaya province in Auytthaya province, 70 km (44
miles) north of Bangkok June 21, 2011. Thais will go to the polls on July 3 for
a general election
 A 6 month old Black Rhino calf stands with its mother in its enclosure at Lympne
Wild Animal Park on June 21, 2011 in Hythe
 Funani, a 26-year-old hippo, and her calf, six-month-old Adhama, swim and
wrestle with each other San Diego Zoo, America. Keepers are preparing to weigh
the calf for the first time next week. Adhama, whose name means 'honour' or
'glory' in Swahili, is the fourth calf for Funani
 Giant Gorilla Vimoto observes the area from a tree at the zoo in Wuppertal,
Germany
 A giraffe calf, born on June 19, rests inside its enclosure at the zoo in
Muenster, Germany
 Pigs run round the track during a race at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton,
California
 A tiny reed warbler feeds an enormous cuckoo chick, thinking it is one of its
own babies. The family was captured on camera by wildlife photographer David
Tipling near Thetford, Norfolk. He said: 'Cuckoos have the ability to lay eggs
that closely resemble the coloration of other birds. Once this young cuckoo
hatched he would have pushed the other eggs out of the nest and started
demanding food. These reed warblers appeared to think the chick was their own -
it was just their instinct to look feed it. The cuckoo was three times the size
of them but they didn't seem to notice.'
 These amorous wood pigeons share a tender moment as one gives the other a peck
on the beak. The love birds have an involved mating ritual, and the male even
slaps the female about the head and body with his wings. Wildlife photographer
Colin Varndell snapped the pair at Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetland Trust in
Gloucestershire.
 This goose-stepping owl was photograraphed by photographer Austin Thomas near
Formby, Lancashire. 'It's quite unusual to see an owl walking along the ground
like this,' he explained. 'He would often fly from his nest and perch on a
nearby barn where he would look for insects and worms in the grass to feed to
his young.'
 One of 13 newborn ostriches is accompanied by a hen as it explores its enclosure
on June 21, 2011 at the zoo in Berlin
 Hedgehog rescuer, Steve Whalley, from Fulwood, who is looking for people to
sponsor sick hedgehogs
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