Animals In News

Eight-month-old baby sloth Camillo sticks out his tongue as he yawns at the zoo in Halle, eastern Germany Crystal the monkey - wearing a dress and sticking out her tongue - arrives on the red carpet for the premiere of the film, "The Hangover Part II", at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood A cheeky polar bear sticks out her tongue at Amsterdam Zoo. Photographer Lars van de Goor said: "I was taking pictures of the animals and noticed this polar bear. I spent half an hour running from left to right, repositioning myself time and time again to get myself into the right position. Then she finally looked straight into my camera and stuck her tongue out." This polar bear looks as if it has taken a wrong turning as it roams an Arctic landscape covered in beautiful fireweed flowers instead of snow. The pictures were captured in Hudon Bay, Canada, by keen photographer Michael Poliza, 53, who couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the lonely white figure strolling through the purple flowers. He's behind you! Meet the world's worst hunting dog. This beagle failed to spot the fox behind him. The dog had strayed too close to a den containing four fox cubs, but their protective parents stood their ground. Naturalist and photographer Mircea Costina captured the scene in a forest north of Montreal, Canada. A white cat called Sioma chases a fox away at a nature reserve guard post on the Kamchatka peninsula in far-eastern Russia. The fox approached the guard post warily and the pair circled each other for a while before the fox decided it had met its match and slunk off. Sergey Krasnoshchokov, who took the pictures, said: "Sioma has a strong character. I found that out the moment I tried to pat him and he started to bite me and hiss. Sioma has done some good things. Now there are no mice at the house at the guard post." A sugar glider flings itself from a branch with the full moon behind it. Husband and wife duo Mary Ann and Joe McDonald from Pennsylvania in the US photographed the gliding marsupials - native to Australia - in their back garden. The couple erected a 15ft post and left a mixture of nuts at the bottom to coax the sugar gliders to leap down past the camera lens in order to capture them in flight. This picture provided by ProAves Foundation shows a red-crested tree rat (Santamartamys rufodorsalis) that was seen at the El Dorado natural reserve in the Santa Martas Snowy Mountain Range, Colombia. The rodent was 'rediscovered' in the north of Colombia by a group of scientists, 113 years after its last sighting. Mother orangutan Britt snatches back her ten-month-old baby Charlie on a feeding platform at the Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Sepilok in Borneo, Malaysia. Just like a curious toddler this young orangutan wandered too far from mum before she reeled him back in. Sepilok cares for around 100 orangutans in an unfenced jungle reserve. All have been rescued from loss of habitat or after becoming orphans though the logging and palm oil industries ravaging Borneo's forests. A male golden lion tamarin at Colchester Zoo has taken the unusual step of babysitting for the other primates that he shares his enclosure with. The tamarin, named Tom, has taken on the role of babysitter for two silvery marmoset youngsters This critically-endangered baby black lion tamarin is the first to have been bred outside Brazil for eight years - after being delivered by Caesarean section. The male infant, born at Durrell wildlife park in Jersey, has been named Francisco after the head of the veterinary department who delivered him. Two Langur Monkeys come to blows at a waterhole in Sariska National Park, Rajasthan, India These four lion cubs were born seven weeks ago at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg. The male lions have been named Batou and Bandele and the females Naledi and Sakina A panther and leopard cub were found in the luggage of Noor Mahmood as he prepared to fly from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport to Dubai. Also found in his luggage were a Asiatic black bear cub and two monkeys, all of which were still alive. Officers from the Royal Thai Police are confident Noor Mahmood will be prosecuted An Asian elephant is dressed up for the Buddhist festival of Vesak in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This year is the 2600th year in the Buddhist era of the Supreme Enlightenment of the Buddha and there are celebrations taking place around the world Maiko, a three-month-old baby okapi, stands next to its mother Lomela during its first public appearance at Frankfurt Zoo A braying zebra in its enclosure at Hagenbecks zoo in Hamburg Here's a seahorse with a difference. Waves crash around a farm worker as he takes his horse for some exercise in the sea. The pair were given a shock when the usually calm water suddenly surged into a giant wave and engulfed them. Photographer Shlomi Nissim captured the moment as he walked along the shore. Shlomi, from Herzeliya, Israel, took the photo on a nearby beach. Pandas try to keep cool in the summer heat in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China A black grouse lets off steam after a ferocious battle with a love rival. The feisty bird was hot under the collar after brawling with other males in a bid to win the affections of a female. British photographer Oliver Smart snapped the sight in Kuusamo, Finland. A gentoo penguin exits the water at a new display at the Sea Life London Aquarium A young ostrich eats in its enclosure at the zoo in Hanover, central Germany A newborn Galah, or rose-breasted cockatoo, looks out of a box in Gross Schauen, Germany A rose ringed parakeet looks out of its nest in a tree in Hyde Park, London. Numbers of the non-native birds have grown to an estimated 32,000 in the South East of England alone. It is believed that the birds originally populated the area after being released as unwanted pets. The red kite was once on the brink of extinction, but now the bird of prey is once again soaring over the British countryside. Part time nature photographer Gareth Scanlon captured the birds play-fighting in mid-air from his back garden in Brynnamman in Carmarthenshire, Wales... ...Kites were once considered a pest in Great Britain and by the 18th Century humans had wiped them out in England and Scotland. Only in Wales did they cling on to life - with a few breeding pairs surviving in remote parts of mid-Wales by the late 1970s. The success story of the Welsh red kites rests on the survival of one female that lived in Wales during that period. Today, all 600 breeding pairs that now live in Wales are descended from this single bird. Red kites in England and Scotland have been reintroduced from Germany, France and Spain, with an estimated 700 breeding pairs of red kites in England and 130 pairs in Scotland. Two-year-old green sea turtle Sea Biscuit, with her front left flipper missing, swims past senior aquarist Marina Tsamoulos at Oceanworld Manly, north of Sydney. Sea Biscuit was rescued by Oceanworld staff in 2009 and was so badly injured when washed ashore that she lost her front left flipper. She has been handraised by Tsamoulos and has learnt to dive and swim with her remaining three flippers. World Turtle Day will be celebrated on May 23 A 650-pound manta ray named Apollo is transferred from Atlantis Paradise Island Resort in Nassau, Bahamas, back into the Atlantic Ocean as part of their release and research programme. Apollo was equipped with a satellite tracking device that will gather information of the types of habitats it frequents and the depth and temperature ranges it experiences.