Animals In News

Tamblyn Williams carries six-month-old lion cub Jagger on her shoulders. Jagger arrived at Seaview Lion Park in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, from a different lion park where he was part of a breeding programme. But he was abandoned just days after birth and was taken in by Tamblyn who had just started as a volunteer at the park after moving to South Africa from Sydney, Australia, to study wildlife. She says: "I spent every day feeding him, going for walks, playing with him and just making sure he was in good health. Now he's a few months older he's a bit too heavy for me to carry - but we're still close." Female Amur tiger Iris licks its seven-week-old cub at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The Amur tiger is an endangered species. Four Indochinese tigers (Panthera tigris corbetti), also known as Corbett's tigers, look out of a box during their first public appearance at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin Snow White the rescued albino squirrel recuperates at HART Wildlife Rescue near Alton in Hampshire. The animal was found badly injured after being attacked by grey squirrels. Vets at the centre placed a mirror in her pen so they could keep an eye on her but it turns out that Snow White quite enjoys looking at herself. A group of giant panda cubs nap at a nursery at the research base of the Giant Panda Breeding Centre in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province. China has launched its once-a-decade panda census, trying to determine how many of the endangered animals live in the wild amid efforts to boost numbers. A Bekantan 'long-nosed' monkey adopts a boxing pose at Ragunan Zoo, South Jakarta, Indonesia A four month old cub climbs a tree at Big Marsh in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania Eight-year-old Jule and a keeper try to clean the teeth of female elephant Mogli at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg Willy the polar bear plays with his favourite "polar pill" toy at a zoo in Ashboro, North Carolina. He loves nothing more than to show off his aquatic skills to fans watching through the glass panels of his pool. Valerie Abbot snapped up the opportunity for a photo-shoot with Willy at his home in North Carolina Zoo. "He takes it underwater and will swim to the window or try to get on it and balance underwater," she says. A chimpanzee enjoys a mouthful of watermelon in his newly renovated habitat at Taronga Zoo in Sydney A chimpanzee at Edinburgh Zoo enjoys an ice lolly made of fruit as the UK heat wave continues. A chimpanzee named Fang Fang, from a local zoo, has its first birthday party with children at a school in Weihai, China Bristol Zoo's newborn baby gorilla, which hasn't been named yet, is cared for by its mother Salome Gizmo the pet sugar glider, owned by Mitch and Kayleigh Price, flies in their home in Cambridge... ...In the wild sugar gliders exist on a diet of insects and sweet tree sap, but the Price's gliders eat honey, fruit and baby food. Luigi leads the way as six dogs attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most dogs on a surfboard, during the Surf City Surf Dog event held in Huntington Beach, California. The dogs were not able to stay on for the required ten seconds. Is it just us, or does that second dog look utterly terrified? A dog dressed as a bull leaps at a woman dressed as a matador during the premiere performance of "Dogs," a show featuring 38 rescue and celebrity dogs, at Bicentennial Park in Miami A couple of lovebirds (Agapornis Roseicollis) are pictured at the El Nido aviary in Ixtapaluca, near Mexico City. The aviary is the third largest in the world, with more than 320 species of birds and more than 3,000 specimens. This kingfisher plunged into a stream to catch a fish - but missed and bit into a pebble instead. The bird was left flapping after the speedy fish darted off and evaded capture. But the common kingfisher returned immediately and did get a meal. Photographer Tony Flashman spent ten hours a week at the stream, working with fellow photographers Mike Vurley and Rob McEwan, near his home in Deal, Kent, for the past 18 months, to capture the behaviour of the birds. A fisherman pulls two cormorants away from a fish during the Erhai lake fishing festival in Dali, Yunnan province, China. The cormorants are domesticated for fishing. An aquarium employee swims with a whale shark in an tank in the city of Yantai, northeastern Shandong province, China A four-day-old African spurred tortoise sits on the head of its mother in their enclosure in Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary