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Jenny Schmidt plays with a white lion in its enclosure at the Mystic Monkeys and Feathers Wildlife Park in Rust de Winter, Limpopo Province, South Africa Black-headed spider monkey baby 'Azusa' snaps at a video camera at the zoo in Wuppertal, western Germany At Marwell Wildlife Park near Winchester in the UK, a Siamang gibbon examines an Easter-themed treat: papier mache eggs containing tasty treats of banana, grapes, crickets and grubs A lemur at Marwell examines its Easter egg A Caribbean Flamingo runs across a pond at Chester Zoo Ring-tailed lemurs stand together at the Haifa zoo in northern Israel This cheeky pair spotted a fellow meerkat dozing - and thought it was the perfect chance to secure themselves a comfortable backrest. (Look at lower left corner) Fearless Ragani Ferrante plays and sprays a tiger in the crocodile pool at Myrtle Beach Safari, South Carolina Georgia the alligator and Myrtle the turtle go for a swim in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Nine-year-old Georgia and 15-year old Myrtle dislay one of nature's unlikeliest friendships. Allowing Myrtle to ride on her back, Georgia goes against all her natural tendencies to make a snack out of Myrtle A Japanese macaque eats cherry blossom at Tokyo's Ueno zoo A female Barbary lion snarls in her enclosure at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent Three week old Asian elephant calf Pathi Harn (left) playing in the mud wallow with his older cousin, eight month old Luk Chai at Taronga Zoo, Sydney Zebra offspring Kanisha frolicks around its enclosure for the first time at Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, Germany An elephant named Lakshman stands tied in a truck to be transported to a wildlife sanctuary, at the Assam State Zoological Park in Gauhati, India A male stork feeds his mate in their nest on the roof of a house in the town of Wijk Bij Duurstede in central Netherlands