Eye contact with Lion at Zoo Miami……..600mm lens loaned to me by Adrian Tavano…
by Mandy Sierra Photography http://500px.com/photo/22414657

Justin Tigerboy Fernandes feeding a young tiger milk at Jugomaro Predator Park, South Africa.

British diver is dwarfed as he swims alongside gigantic sperm whale
A family of sperm whales have shown their gentle side by allowing a group of divers to swim alongside them in the middle of the Caribbean Sea.
Known as the world’s largest predators, sperm whales can weigh up to 45 tonnes and measure up to 59ft in length. They can dive up to 3,280ft and have rows of razor-sharp teeth 7in long .
But this group of whales dispelled the Moby Dick myth by letting the team of divers swim just yards away from them.
Picture: Amos Nachoum/Barcroft Media

Among the divers was Brit Andy Morris, a 41-year-old systems analyst, from Stoke Poges, who got within arm’s reach of the giant’s tail. The photographs were captured three miles of the coast of Dominica by wildlife photographer and expedition leader Amos Nachoum, 63.
He tracked the whales using a hydrophone – an underwater microphone that picks up the whale communications.
The divers approached slowly, as sperm whales can be easily scared off and may dive to the ocean depths for up to 90 minutes.

Sperm whales are the world’s largest predators and they can eat as much as one ton of squid per day with their teeth which can measure up to 7in long
Divers found it a ‘great privilege’ to get so close to the family of sperm whales which were spotted just three miles off the coast of Dominica in the Caribbean
Mr Amos, from Israel, said: ‘All animals have comfort zones and some of the sperm whale families have become habituated and friendly with us in the water.
‘After all, whales are faster and stronger than any human swimmer.
‘As long as the swimmer is gentle and soft in the water, whales usually will accept our presence with them. That is a great privilege.’
Females and calves stay in Dominica all year round but the male arrives only for mating between January to March.
Sperm whales, which are known to feed on giant squid, were almost hunted to extinction in the late 1960s but have since made a comeback.

Divers saw a baby sperm whale swimming with her mother at Dominica in the Caribbean. Males are only seen with females in mating season from January to March
Picture: Amos Nachoum/Barcroft Media

Lion pride at a waterhole, Kenya
Greg has gone back to Kenya to look for these young cubs. They will be 7 years old now and they will will use their whisker patterns to identify them. Also involved in the wild adventure in Kenya’s Rift Valley is a lion researcher and documentary filmmaker, so look out for forthcoming images and film.
You can read the original story here: http://www.gregdutoit.com/index.php?page=ftf_blood
by Greg Du Toit
http://500px.com/photo/25387945

Leopard Walk
A female Leopard ( Panthera pardus ) named ” Rock Fig jr. ” walking passed our game drive vehicle in the Motswari Private Game Reserve during a recently conducted private photo safari. This wildlife paradise is part of the Timbavati Nature Reserve and one of the best areas in Africa to photograph these elusive cats. Motswari is situated on the Western border of Kruger NP in South Africa.
By Mario Moreno Photography
https://www.facebook.com/mariomorenophotographer

Playing in The Rain
An Elephant calf playing in the rain. Image taken in Cabarceno Nature Park in Spain. The goverment of Cantabria has done an amazing job with this park which has two main roles : one related to the conservation of endangered species and the other one related to environmental education. It is also known for the semi-freedom of their animals and botanical routes. In this park life develops in the best natural environment to the animals that inhabit it. Except for food provided to them, the rest of the activities are marked by their almost total freedom and instinct. Almost all of them trigger fights and the mating season is marked by struggles for control of females and, of course, the rest of their senses are as wild as in their natural habitat.
by Mario Moreno Photography
https://www.facebook.com/mariomorenophotographer

A Cheetah portrait ( Acinonyx jubatus ) captured on the open plains in Kruger National Park.
by Mario Moreno Photography
https://www.facebook.com/mariomorenophotographer

Grooming Geladas
by Marius Coetzee Photography
https://www.facebook.com/mariuscoetzeephotography

Leopard, Okavango Delta, Botswana
Grant Atkinson will be leading a November 2013 photosafari again with Andy Biggs Photo Safaris. This leopard image comes from their trip together last year. Read more here:
http://www.grantatkinson.com/photo-safaris/scheduled-safaris-2013/okavango-delta
by Atkinson Photography and Safaris
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“Baobab sunset” The sun setting at Baines Baobabs in Botswana, these majestic trees are great to see and make for some wonderful landscape images.
by Andrew Schoeman Photography
http://www.andrewschoemanphotography.co.za/
https://www.facebook.com/AndrewSchoemanPhotography

“Left Hook !”
A Couple of Lion cubs playing after feasting on a Buffalo that had been killed the day before at Duba Plains in the Okavango Delta, Duba is a unique destination to see the spectacular interaction between Lion and Buffalo. To join them on Safari to Photograph this amazing spectacle, follow link: http://www.odpsafaris.com/
by Andrew Scoeman Photography
http://www.andrewschoemanphotography.co.za/
https://www.facebook.com/AndrewSchoemanPhotography

Sharks-crossing-south-africa
by Marc Stickler Photography
http://www.marcstickler.at/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marc-Stickler-Photography/111792888878470

White Rhinos, Solio Ranch, Kenya
by Corne Shalkwyk/Premier Safaris
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Premier-Safaris/230111593704515

Tough Nut To Crack!!!
National Geo
Photographer : Patrick Castleberry

Sardine War
by Alexander Safonov

Five-year-old jaguar Nindiri licks a heart-shaped Valentine’s Day treat of frozen beef blood, beef hearts and pieces of meat at the San Diego Zoo
Picture: REUTERS/Tammy Spratt/San Diego Zoo

Alaskan sea otter Yutan swims with a heart-shaped frozen treat at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise amusement park in Yokohama
Picture: TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty Images

Meerkats look at a beetroot flavoured love heart at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling, Scotland
Picture: Andrew Milligan /PA

Another look at poor Joco the cross-eyed lion at the zoo in Erfurt, Germany
Picture: MARC TIRL/AFP/Getty Images

Deers
Submission by Melissa West

Sleeping Lion, South Africa
Photograph by Ande Truman

Stingrays gracefully flying, forming a perfect straight line. Sand bar, Grand Cayman.
Photograph by Nadya Kulagina

Eurasian Otters, Shetland Islands
In the Shetland Islands a mother and two male cubs listen intently to the clicking of the photographer’s camera. The nose of the cub at right had a recent encounter with a crab. Adults don’t live as pairs, and males play no part in raising the young.
Photograph by Charlie Hamilton James

Two polar bears (Ursus maritimus) play in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
Picture: Image Broker / Rex Features

Two lions (Panthera leo) seem to show affection
Picture: Image Broker / Rex Features

Two Alpine marmotts seem to kiss on a mountain in Austria
Picture: Animal Press/ Barcroft Media

Two Cape ground squirrels (Xerus inauris) ‘kissing’ in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa
Picture: Nature Picture Library / Rex Features

Gourami (Helostoma temmincki) fish kissing; they do this to gauge strength and establish hierarchy
Picture: Frank Lane Picture Agency Ltd / Rex Features

Two blue budgies pucker up (or should that be pecker up?)
Picture: Animal Press/ Barcroft Media

Pig on Wheels !!
Chris P Bacon, a piglet born without the use of his hind legs, is seen with his new wheelchair at the Eastside Veterinary Hospital in Clermont Florida. The pig’s owner turned the piglet over to a Clermont vet who decided to help. Dr Len Lucero took the pig home and made a wheelchair for him using K’nex toy parts. Chris has outgrown the toy wheelchair, and will soon grow into his new, more permanent and rugged model.
Picture: ZUMA / Rex Features

Llamas on the Run
A bemused householder tries to coax two escaped llamas with a bowl of cat food on a street in Henstridge, Somerset.In the end the owners were summoned to the scene and they rounded the pair up.The duo are family pets at a nearby property but had manage to escape by eating their way through the hedge surrounding their enclosure.
Picture: Tony Collins/BNPS

A gorilla mother holds her week-old baby at Moscow Zoo
Picture: Ivan Sekretarev/AP

Diver Margaux Maes receives a hug from a manatee in Citrus County, Florida
Picture: Ellen Cuylaerts / Barcroft Medi

Swantastic Love
Mute swans (Cygnus olor) form a heart shape during their courtship display, Buckinghamshire
Picture: Frank Lane Picture Agency Ltd / Rex Features

Pair of Lovebirds (Agapornis sp)
Picture: Nature Picture Library / Rex Features

Gorilla mother Jamani and her baby Bomassa roam the Forest Glade exhibit at The North Carolina Zoo
Picture: News & Record, Jerry Wolford/AP

Two black-tailed prairie dogs appear to kiss while grooming in North Dakota, America
Picture: Frank Lane Picture Agency Ltd / Rex Features

A lioness named Lemon picks up one of her three cubs at the zoo in Cali, Colombia
Picture: REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriag

This happy looking Girgentana goat was spotted with his mother in their enclosure at Bergzoo in Halle, Germany
Picture: Action Press / Rex Features

Joco the cross-eyed lion is seen at the zoo in Erfurt, Germany. He was born with strabismus last year at the zoo in Hanover.
Picture: MARC TIRL/AFP/Getty Images

King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) pair in courtship, Falkland Islands
Picture: Nature Picture Library / Rex Featur

Two meerkats (Suricata suricatta) snuggle up
Picture: Image Broker / Rex Features

Two cockatoos are in the pink
Picture: Animal Press/ Barcroft Media

Golden Forest Rhino, Lake Nakuru, Kenya
The Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Species 2010
by Greg Du Toit

Cheeky Raccoon
by Tambako Photography

Oh Behave!!
Stoats Playing
by Black Fox Wildlife Photography

Giraffe Bouquet
The Centre Cannot Hold
by David Gulden

Zebroid/Zorse
A zebroid is the offspring of any cross between a zebra and any other equine: essentially, a zebra hybrid. In most cases, the sire is a zebra stallion. Offspring of a donkey sire and zebra dam, called a zebra hinny, or donkra, do exist but are rare. Wikipedia

Zorse

«Not today darling, I have a headache!
by Tambako Photography
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World’s oldest wild bird hatches chick at age 62
© Jaymi Heimbuch
A couple years ago we were excited to learn about a 60-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom hatched her 35th chick. Then last year, we were excited to visit Midway Atoll where she nests, and where she was rearing yet another chick. Now this year, miraculously, Wisdom has returned to the atoll — now as the oldest living wild bird as she outlived a Northern Royal albatross named Grandma — and has nested yet again, with her newest chick hatching on February 3rd.
Wisdom’s age puts her at living more than twice as long as the average Laysan albatross. It means that Wisdom has overcome an incredible number of obstacles to survival, not the least of which is the thousands of deadly hooks tied to the lines of industrial fishing vessels. Albatross are often killed as bycatch, becoming snagged on the hooks as they try to grab bait fish when the miles-long lines are dropped in the water. Not only that, but there is also the problem of plastic pollution. Albatross commonly mistake pieces of plastic as food — cigarette lighters look an awful lot like tiny squid to an albatross. Surviving ingestion of plastic, which sits in the stomach and can kill a bird by starvation, alone is a mighty feat. Also, the fact that she is still rearing young may change science’s understanding of these birds.
From The Guardian
“It blows us away that this is a 62-year-old bird and she keeps laying eggs and raising chicks,” said Bruce Peterjohn, chief of the bird banding laboratory at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Centre in Laurel. “We know that birds will eventually stop reproducing when they’re too old,” he said. “The assumption about albatrosses is it will happen to them, too. But we don’t know where that line is. That, in and of itself, is pretty amazing.”
Courtesy of Treehugger

Now that’s what you call a cat fight!
These protective lionesses refuse to take it LION down when a male approaches their cubs, and all hell breaks loose among the pride.
The cat fight is a bitter battle between the male and female beasts, who savagely erupt into a ferocious battle in the Mara Triangle, within the heart of the Masai Mara in Kenya, Africa.

Team work !

Backbiting: One of the lionesses goes to dig her teeth into the roaring lion’s back
Photographer Sarah Skinner managed to capture these images during one of her regular visits to the Masai Mara.
The region is relatively densely populated by lions, which sometimes causes tension among its population as they all fight to keep their territory safe from other prides.
Although lions are famous for hunting other animals, they occasionally fight among themselves too.
Male cubs are ousted from the pride between two to three-years-old, but female cubs may stay indefinitely.
The cubs are weaned between 7-8 months old.
The reserve stretches for 580 square miles and the terrain is primarily grassland and forest with clumps of the distinctive acacia trees.

In need of reinforcements: The lion faces three animals from the same pride attack its back

Spectacular scenes: The pride gather together to attack in solidarity, as two lions join the lionesses to circle the intruder

Stand off: Two lions and two lionesses gang up on the lone lion. The lion on the right is the oldest of the group, as distinguished by its darker mane

Going right for the eye: The lioness lands a paw on the lion’s eye as the others gather round to help. The lions are distinguished from the lionesses by their shaggy manes.

Roll over: The lion is pushed onto its back as the two lionesses defend their brood

Beating a retreat: the lion runs off heavily scratched and bloodied from his brawl with the pride

A squirrel was apparently so charmed by the prographer that it almost came to a standstill in a human pose.”
by Elizabeth Plugovoy /Nat Geo russia

Playful leopard Xiviti relaxing and grooming his sister Tingana at Timbavati Game Reserve, South Africa.
by Christof Schoeman Wildlife Photography
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A relaxed sub-adult leopard Xiviti had just feasted on an impala kill which he had made all on his own, at Timbavati, South Africa
by Christof Schoeman Wildlife Photography
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Young Elephant at Masai Mara, Kenya
by Corne Schalkwyk/Premier Safaris
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Premier-Safaris/230111593704515

A young cub from the Ximhungwe pride curiously emerges from the rocks.
by Calvin Kotze Wildlife Photography
https://www.facebook.com/CalvinKotzePhotography

Wild Russia

bonobo
by jutta hof photography
http://www.jutta-hof.de/

Leopard !!
by Blain Taylor

“I’m ready for my close-up” — Bantu, a lion cub born in Columbia, checks out the interest..
Photo: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images

Lion cub Bantu makes his debut at Cali Zoo, Columbo
Photo: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images

Ferocious big cat kitten
Bantu plays with an orange and green ball in the grass of his enclosure at the Cali Zoo
Photo: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images

The longer scientists study elephants, the more we realise how special they are. These are creatures that live for around 65 years. Females teach younger elephants about the geography and food of their world, and how to raise young. Elephants display many of the emotions we associate with humans: for example, they love, play and empathise with each other.
Image by Martin Harvey
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SAVE AFRICA’S
ELEPHANTS
Across the savannas and forests of Africa, tens of thousands of elephants are being slaughtered each year for their ivory. In many places the species has already been poached to extinction. If we don’t act now there may be no wild elephants left.
In Thailand, massive quantities of illegal African ivory are being laundered through Thai shops because the law allows ivory from domestic Thai elephants to be sold. To save Africa’s elephants it is essential that Thailand closes this legal loophole.
Please sign our petition asking the Thai Prime Minister to ban all ivory trade in Thailand.
In Thailand, elephants are sacred. There is a saying that there would be no Thailand without the elephant. But Thailand is also the biggest unregulated market for ivory in the world. Although it is against the law to sell ivory from African elephants in Thailand, ivory from domestic Thai elephants can be sold legally. As a result, massive quantities of illegal African ivory are being laundered through Thai shops.
To save Africa’s elephants it is essential that Thailand closes this legal loophole. Join us in asking Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to ban all ivory trade in Thailand.
In March, governments from around the world will meet in Bangkok to discuss wildlife trade issues, including the elephant poaching crisis. WWF is collecting petition signatures so that we can present 1 million signatures to Mrs Sinawatra to convince her to implement a ban.
Get involved by signing the petition now.
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Tiger Vogue
Courtesy of Ana Cristina Ribeiro

Cheetah Yawn
by David Lazaar

Royal Flycatcher

Royal Flycatcher
by Ben Lascelles

Hamlet Fish Sex Ritual

2 sub-adult Male Lions taking a breather and relaxing at Singita Lebombo, Kruger National Park, South Africa
by Ronesh Parbhoo Wildlife Photography
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African Wild Dogs at Kruger National Park, South Africa
by Ronesh Parbhoor Wildlife Photography
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ronesh-Parbhoo-Wildlife-Photography/177242835673208

Just popping out to pick up the kids
The Cardinal Fish is a mouthbrooder, where the males carry all the eggs in their mouth for weeks, unable even to eat until they have hatched

A Mother’s Pride
by Stephen Oachs Nature Photography
http://stephenoachs.com

A trio of snowy owls
by Stephen Oachs Nature Photography
http://stephenoachs.com

Cheetah Family, Masai Mara, Kenya
by Stephen Oachs Nature Photography
http://stephenoachs.com

Northern Saw Whet in tree cavity
by Mike Lentz Nature Photography
http://www.mikelentzphotography.com/

Contrary to popular belief a black leopard is brindled in colour, not black
Courtesy of Kevin Richardson
https://www.facebook.com/kevinrichardson.zoologist

Snowy-Protrait (
by Judylynn Malloch Photography
http://www.naturestapestryjlm.com/

Resting Spot
Leopard basking in the morning sun at Samburu, Kenya
by Stephen Oachs Nature Photography
http://stephenoachs.com/

Lions of ARTIS
Majestic African Lions at Amsterdam Artis Royal Zoo
by Stephen Oachs Nature Photography
http://stephenoachs.com

Coyote Growl
by Stephen Oachs Nature Photography
http://stephenoachs.com/

A gorilla baby sits in the hands of his mother Changa-Maidi at the zoo in Muenster, western Germany
Picture: Martin Meissner

Cindy Stones, the Small World Supervisor, feeds a seventeen-day old female baby gorilla at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas. The gorilla has been ignored by her mother so will be sent to an Ohio zoo and introduced to a new troop.
Picture: The Brownsville Herald, Christian Rodriguez/AP

If a prize were being handed out for the world’s cutest creature, the Siberian flying squirrel would surely win. These large-eyed tree-dwellers could come from a Disney film with their large eyes and, seemingly, expressive features. Photographer Masatsugu Ohashi captured these images of the tiny animals on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Picture: Masatsugu Ohashi/Rex Features

What’s for dinner!!
These two wild foxes were lured to the window of Igor Shpilenok’s remote log cabin by the smell of his cooking…
Picture: Igor Shpilenok / Barcroft Media

.and chased the pair away from the cabin in the Kronotsky Nature Reserve, Russia. Igor captured the moment the foxes fled.
Picture: Igor Shpilenok / Barcroft Media

Photographer Dan Dinu had a close encounter with a curious fox that was definitely ready for its close-up. Luckily his pal Cristian Goga was able to snap the moment. Dan was making his way to St Ana Lake in central Romania when he encountered the male fox. Dan says: The behaviour is due to the fact that it has been raised by a forest ranger, therefore it was used to people. Yet, it is not right to encourage such a behaviour, as animals must remain wild. It cannot be sure that next time, instead of looking at a camera, it will not look into a rifle.
Picture: Dan Dinu/Cristian Goga/Rex Features

Rather than adopt a dog from a rescue centre an Australian woman has opted for a rather different animal – a fox. 23-year-old Leonie Bunch adopted red fox Ally six months ago with the help of Sydney Fox Rescue. The organisation re-homes the creatures in an effort to reduce the number of wild foxes preying on native wildlife. According to Leonie he is fairly toilet-trained and he has his own backyard run and his own room.
Picture: Toby Zerna / Newspix / Rex Features

Roy Rimmer, of Wigan, Greater Manchester, won the Mammal Society Mammal Photographer of the Year competition by freezing the motion of a jumping brown rat. Wildlife photographer and competition judge Kate MacRae said: This image quite literally ‘leapt’ out at me when I first saw it. Often misunderstood and unfairly depicted, I loved the unique energy in this capture…
Picture: Roy Rimmer/The Mammal Society / Rex Features

A squirrel sticks its head inside a model of a squirrel’s head filled with nuts. The Big Head Squirrel Feeder was installed in the Secret Garden Nature Reserve in Southampton, Hampshire.
Picture: Jamie Lorriman/Solent News & Photo Agency

A penguin seems to give a cheeky grin as he strides through the snow with a spring in his step. The chinstrap penguin was snapped by German photographer Andreas Kutsch at Spigot Point, Antarctica.
Picture: ANDREAS KUTCH / CATERS NEWS

A leopard seal chases a Gentoo penguin onto the beach on Cuverville Island, Antarctica. The predatory seal struck with ferocious speed but the penguin flapped across the shoreline, with the hungry seal in hot pursuit…
Picture: Paul Souders / Barcroft Media

Seal Roar..Looser, Lol
..The leopard seal roars after failing to catch a Gentoo penguin by the shoreline off Cuverville Island, Antarctica
Picture: Paul Souders / Barcroft Media

This Gentoo penguin appears to be walking on water, leaving behind a trail of water – giving the impression he is using a jet pack…
Picture: Paul Souders / Barcroft Media

A jaguar drinks water in an enclosure at Petro Velho Farm, a refuge of the non-governmental organization NEX in Corumba de Goias, Brazil
Picture: EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images

This smiling Cow Nose Ray is part of the new exhibit at Underwater World in Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Picture: Megan Slade/Newspix / Rex Features

A juvenile green sea turtle attempts to devour a live jellyfish. The greedy young turtle looks to be enjoying his bizarre meal by eating from the head of the jellyfish away from the poisonous tentacles. US photographer Jacob Maentz came across the rare sight when diving at the Balicasag Marine Sanctuary off the coast of the island of Bohol, Phillipines.
Picture: Jacob Maentz / Barcroft Media

A baby chimp shows a variety of expressions as it sits in its mother’s arms at Chimp Haven in Keithville, Louisiana. One hundred and eleven chimpanzees will be coming from a south Louisiana laboratory to Chimp Haven, the US national sanctuary for chimpanzees retired from federal research.
Picture: Gerald Herbert/AP

Smile – it’s the school photo. A marine photographer managed to capture hundreds of wide-eyed fish apparently posing for a picture. Californian photographer and conservationist Octavio Aburto had spent years photographing the school in Cabo Pulmo National Park, Mexico, and had been trying to capture this shot for three years.
Picture: OCTAVIO ABURTO / CATERS

A lion’s mane jellyfish swims through the white sea off the coast of Russia
Picture: Science Photo Library / Barcroft Media

Two-month-old freshwater crocodile hatchlings are seen at Chris Humfrey’s Wild Action Zoo in Macedon, Australia
Picture: Jay Town/Newspix / Rex Features

Three ears, two heads
via Animal Photos
http://www.animal-photos.org/photo/5103.html

A great grey owl reacts to being buzzed by a swooping red-tailed hawk. Wildlife photographer Mircea Costina captured the scene north of Montreal last month.
Picture: Mircea Costina/Rex Features

A Kazakh hunter runs towards to his tamed golden eagle as it catches a rabbit during an annual hunting competition in Chengelsy Gorge, some 150 km (93 miles) east of Almaty…
Picture: REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

.A tamed golden eagle attacks a fox during an annual hunting competition in Chengelsy Gorge, Kazakhstan
Picture: REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

A Saw-Whet Owl is wrapped up while it is weighed at the University of Minnesota’s Raptor Centre
Picture: The Raptor Center/WENN.co

White Bengal Tiger
by hmooray
http://www.animal-photos.org/photo/5038.html

Raccoons
by Aloist

Licking Clouded Leopard
by Julie Jirankova
http://luciejirankova.deviantart.com/art/Licking-146211519

Harlequin macaw.
by ~Evey-Eyes
http://evey-eyes.deviantart.com/art/Harlequin-macaw-168832999

Yin & Yang Cheetahs
by_Art_Photo
http://art-photo.deviantart.com/art/Two-Cheetahs-9-64200913

Sibling Unrivalry – Cheetahs
by ~roamingtigress
http://roamingtigress.deviantart.com/art/Sibling-Unrivalry-Cheetahs-152697353

Clouded Leopard Licking
by *Lucie

Pack Pals!!
Two arctic wolves (Canis lupus arctos) lazily rest in the grass in their enclosure at the Toronto Zoo with one giving a bit of a skeptical stare. Perhaps it is being protective of their buddy?
by ~HeWhoWalksWithTigers
http://hewhowalkswithtigers.deviantart.com/art/Pack-Pals-276259034

Lion Cub Donovan at Utica NY Zoo
by *cindy1701d

Donovan Being Cute
by *cindy1701d
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Snow Baby
by *cindy1701d
http://cindy1701d.deviantart.com/art/Snow-Baby-280413485

Blue Macaws
by ~Makii-17
http://makii-17.deviantart.com/art/Blue-Macaws-204666785

Rainbow Bill, Rainbow Toucan
by *FantasticFennec
http://fantasticfennec.deviantart.com/art/Rainbow-Bill-101307772

Flying lions in the rain. Sakina jumps on her brother Nawiri!
by *Svenimal
http://bigcats.deviantart.com/gallery/25696617#/d5m9hb0

Clouded Leopard (neofelis nebulosa) at Zoo Dortmund
by *darkSoul4Life
http://bigcats.deviantart.com/gallery/25696617#/d5mtejp

Clouded Leopard at Lowry Park Zoo, Tampa, Florida
by norbi2010
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Swimming Tigers
by ~onummyo
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Tiger Cub Beauties
by ~LenoreLostAngel
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=tigers#/dnsg06

Tiger Love
by ~makdizzle18
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=tigers#/d2w0wcd

Tigers Cuddle!!
by *Electrokopf
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=tigers#/d4rnjql

Amur Leopard Goodbye Jessie at the Cotswold Wildlife Park, England!!
by SnowPoring

Greater Mouse Deer
The greater mouse-deer, greater Malay chevrotain or napu is a species of even-toed ungulate in the Tragulidae family
by Miyeong Lee Photography

African Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) – cub in tree with impala carcass at
Savanna Lodge, Sabi Sand Reserve, Kruger National ParK, South Africa
by John Kok. Photography

White Lion Cub
by Panos Kazanelis

“Natures Kaleidoscope of Colours” at Kruger National Park, South Africa
by Ronesh Parbhoor Wildlife Photography
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Lynx Portrait
Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) at Cabarceno Nature Park in Cantabria, Spain.
By Mario Moreno Photography
https://www.facebook.com/mariomorenophotographer

Portrait of the King
by Mario Moreno Photography
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Elephantastico
by Marina Cano Wildlife Photography
www.southcapeimages.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marina-Cano-Wildlife-Photographer/120062008049190

Time For A Nap!!!
Photographer : Pat Ulrich

Leopard in the rain
by Calvin Kotze Photography
https://www.facebook.com/CalvinKotzePhotography

Lion cub soaking up the last ray of sunshine
by Calvin Kotze Photography
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Young Leopard Yawn
by Calvin Kotze Photography
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Blue Night
by Calvin Kotze Photography
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Thousands of cranes pass through the Israeli skies twice a year and use Hula Lake as a stopover while travelling between Europe and Africa
Picture: CATERS

Love At First Sight!!!!
Photographer : Dino Odoardo Giberton

Meet Einstein, The World’s Smallest Stallion!!!!

“Kerching”
by Chris Discart.

African Leopard
by Adalberto Mangini Photography

Kelly Brown / The Buffalo Zoo
Little white bundle of love
A polar bear cub is photographed by the Buffalo Zoo on March 1.The cub was born on November 27th to mother Anana, sired by Nanuq, and has been hand raised by the Zoo’s veterinary technician and keeper staff. Though the cub is currently too small to go on exhibit for the public, she is visible within the zoo on a closed-circuit television.

Tapir toddler
Malayan tapir ‘Laila’ watches her male offspring nibbling on leaves at their enclosure at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany, on March 2.
Marc Tirl / EPA

Tiny turtle
An Indonesian worker holds a sea turtle hatchling at a conservation center in Serangan, Indonesia, on March 1.
by Made Nagi / EPA

All eyes ahead
An eagle owl is seen at the Schwarze Berge wildlife park in Hamburg, northern Germany, on February 28.
by Sven Hoppe / AFP – Getty Images

Face palm!!
An oriental small-clawed otter plays in its enclosure at the Schwarze Berge wildlife park in Hamburg, northern Germany, on February 28. All of the park’s animals were counted, measured and weighed during an annual inventory.
by Sven Hoppe / AFP – Getty Images

Parents Alain Degré and Sylvie Robert documented Tippi’s life and relationships with the African wildlife and transformed those moments into captivating books and movies. Tippi of Africa, published in 1998, told Tippi’s story of she and her parents, and Tippi’s close bonds with wild animals made her quite famous. Her mother said, “She was in the mindset of these animals. She believed the animals were her size and her friends. She was using her imagination to live in these different conditions.”

Looking past some fairly obvious and natural parental worries, Tippi had the most amazing upbringing. Not many of us can say that we lived a real life adventure where we rode ostriches in our free time or that our best friend growing up was an African elephant, one of the largest animals to walk the earth! You can see a video of Tippi, below, with some of the animals as well as a trailer for the Bridging the Gap to Africa documentary.

Doh !!
By Wendy Salisbury
www.wendysalisburyphotography.co.uk

A baby elephant wallows in the mud, but then found himself unable to stand up again. Heavy rain in the Masai Mara created the perfect mud hole, and the youngster wasted no time in going for a roll. However, when he tried to get to his feet again, he was simply unable to stand and kept slipping over. The moment was captured on camera by professional wildlife photographer Andy Rouse, who had been following the herd.
Picture: Andy Rouse / Rex Features
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White Bengal Tiger
by Christine Haines
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77095813@N00/8091988354/in/set-72157631779416839/

Lynx
by K.Verhulst
http://www.flickr.com/photos/misja2011/8419874389/in/photostream

Young Giraffe
Auckland, New Zealand
by Andrew Ross
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewrosspoetry/8381766427/in/photostream

A half submerged nile hippo in the water, Uganda
by Jonothan Hen-Boisen
http://500px.com/photo/28374397

Godzilla, Giant Iguana
by Peter Hausner Hansen
http://500px.com/photo/7256734

Lioness & Cub, Den Move
by Rahul Matthan
http://500px.com/photo/649362

White Tiger, Snow Cat
by Sergei Gladyshev
http://500px.com/photo/5985348

Zebra Valentine !!
by Rahul Matthan
http://500px.com/photo/660910

Leopard Warning!
by Grant Atkinson
http://500px.com/photo/6151060

Swimming Tiger !!
by Sergei Gladyshev
http://500px.com/photo/6197587

Siberian Tiger Cub, Mug Shot !!
by Ken Shimo
http://500px.com/photo/5391582

Lynx
by Thorsten Scheel
http://500px.com/photo/3518868

Young Cougar
by Leonardo Harrell
http://500px.com/photo/7102865

Scarlet Macaw, Ruffled Feathers
by Leonardo Harell
http://500px.com/photo/7091805

Ah Love !! (Spotted Dove Pair)
by Dhiraj Gaurh
http://500px.com/photo/15047325

Penguin Parents Love
In the harsh world of Antarctica the emperor penguins fight every day for survival and to protect their only chicken.
by Anneliese & Claus Possberg
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Margay Cat
by Jose Calvo
http://500px.com/photo/16337709

King Cheetah Female
by Brad Francis

This is the moment an unlucky bird was plucked from mid-air by a sparrowhawk. The scene was caught on camera by photographer Margitta Schuff Thomann at the Isola Della Cona nature reserve in Italy.
Picture: MARGITTA SCHUFF THOMANN / CATERS NEWS

This seal known as Sammy or Sally regularly visits Billingsgate Market at Canary Wharf, London, to be fed by the fish market porters
Picture: David Taylor / Rex Features

Real-life kung fu pandas play in the snow. Josef Gelernter captured the cute red pandas rolling around in the snow at the Tiergarten Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna.
Picture: JOSEF GELERNTER / CATERS NEWS

Lenticular clouds pass in sweeping layers over the port village of Fionnphort on the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides. The high-altitude lens-shaped formations often have a smooth, saucer-like shape and have sometimes been mistaken for UFOs.
Picture: PictureScotland / Alamy

Playful Elephant Calf, Simbavati River Lodge, South Africa
by Christof Schoeman Wildlife Photography
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Leopard at Biblical Zoo, Jerusalem
by Dafna Ben Nun Photography
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A series of photos of an Humpback whale breaching merged into one, South Africa
by Dafna Ben Nun Photography
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A tiny mouse makes a bid for freedom as a hungry owl swoops down behind it. Photographer Roman Lobanov captured the huge owl swooping down behind the tiny mouse before pouncing on the unlucky rodent and flying off with its prey, in Rybinsk, Russia.
Picture: ROMAN LOBANOV / CATERS NEWS

An elephant picks himself up, dusts himself off and showers himself in dust again. The huge African elephant was spotted enjoying a dust shower by wildlife photographer Theo Allofs at a dried-up part of the Hoanib River in Kunene, Namibia.
Picture: Theo Allofs/Minden Pictures/Solent News & Photo Agency

Zebras and flamingos, Kenya
by Jeremy Birch

The northern lights shimmer in the sky above the Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox church in Kenai, Alaska
Picture: M. Scott Moon/AP

The Aurora Borealis lights up the sky at twilight between the towns of Are and Ostersund, Sweden
Picture: JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images

The start of a new day on the plains of Masai Mara, Kenya
by Dana Allen Photography
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Lion cubs Ying Yai and her two sisters, Ying Klang (Middle Princess) and Ying Lek (Little Princess), lounge together at 1 month of age.
by Ashley Vincent Photography
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Lion cub sisters
by Ashley Vincent Photography
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Wolves at Lakota Wolf Reserve
by Johnny Rapozo/Johnny’s Images
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Red fox in tree.
by Johnny Rapozo/Johnny’s Images
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Tiger Cub
by Pedro Jarque Krebs
http://500px.com/photo/29167029

La conversation Squirrel-Bird
by Andre Villeneuve
http://500px.com/photo/29163457

An African fishing eagle catches a fish in Lake Baringo, Kenya
Picture: CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images

A lynx yawns inside its enclosure at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire
Picture: Barcroft Media

African Sunset
by Anneliese & Claus Possberg
http://500px.com/photo/22543985

Meerkats
by Rainer Tewes
http://500px.com/photo/11975845

Morning Tour!!
Lioness and cubs, Masai Mara, Kenya
by Rainer Tewes
http://500px.com/photo/12958979

Feeding Giraffe, Masai Mara, Kenya
by Rainer Tewes
http://500px.com/photo/12948339

These are quite possibly the cutest picture of baby animals on the Internet, and yes, we know there are many of them. But Mango the kitten and Milkshake the pitbull, delightful to the point of seizure, are seriously poised to conquer the cute

Bears are increasingly coming out of the forest in search of food, say wildlife experts. This one made for a remote train station, believed to be Tarbinskaya in Krasnoyarsk region. The creature lunged at the station window, protected by metal bars.

A whale flashes a killer smile as he homes in on his lunch, off Kona, Hawaii.The photograph shows what appears to be a big grin plastered across the face of a False Killer Whale as he patrols the sea looking for food. American photographer Doug Perrine, 60, snapped the shot.
Picture: Doug Perrine/HotSpot Media

Bengal tiger Mulan Jamila plays with keeper Soleh at Al Khaffah Islamic school in Malang, Indonesia’s East Java province. The tiger is kept as a pet at the school under a government permit, according to the school. Soleh has fed the tiger 5 kg (11 lbs) of meat per day since the animal was three months old.
Picture: REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas

Wildlife photographer Daniel Heuclin’s close-up photograph of the eye of a chameleon
Picture: Daniel Heuclin/Photoshot/Solent

Lion Love in Monochrome
by Mandy Sierra Photography

Tingana Young Female Leopard at Timbavati, South Africa
by Christof Schoeman Wildlife Photography
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Baobab Milky Way
by Hendri Venter Photography
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Siberian Tiger
by Jan Willemsen Photography

“Thirsty Cubs”
The Nkuhuma Pride of Lions in the Manyaleti Game Reserve Quenching Thirst Aftaer Feasting on a Zebra Kill
by Andrew Schoeman Photography
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Aussie Lories
by Dafna Ben Nun Photography
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Balancing Act !!
Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews’s photo of a fearsome Komodo dragon seeming to balance on two feet
Picture: BRIAN MATTHEWS /CATERS NEWS

A white tiger cub growls for the camera at the Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina. The cub’s mother, Cleo, a captive Bengal white tiger, gave birth to two females and two males on January 14
Picture: AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko

Xiao Liwu, the youngest member of the panda family at the San Diego Zoo, got to play in the snow for the first time. The seven-month-old cub explored his snowy exhibit and had fun climbing all over mom Bai Yun. More than 15 tons of fresh snow was blown into the panda’s exhibit as part of an enrichment surprise for the pandas.
Picture: REUTERS/San Diego Zoo/Ken Bohn

Kali, an orphaned polar bear cub, plays with a ball at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage. The cub’s mother was shot in Point Lay, Alaska, on March 12 and the cub is temporarily staying at the zoo in Anchorage until it has a permanent home.
Picture: Alaska Zoo, John Gomes/AP

Smiley Face !!
The brightly decorated peacock spider – much like his feathered namesake – uses colour to show off to the female of the species. Its markings appear to form a face including eyes, nose, a mouth and even ginger hair which is unique to this species, called Maratus speciosus. The tiny spiders are only about four to five millimetres in length.
Picture: JURGEN OTTO / CATERS NEWS

Gorgeous Serval !!
by Josef Gelernter

Sea Life Senior Curator Chris Brown prepares to move Japanese Spider crab named Big Daddy as it settles in to its new home at Blackpool’s Sea Life Centre. The nine-foot claw-span of the giant Japanese Spider Crab, which is to be housed on the Golden Mile, makes him Europe’s biggest crab.
Picture: Dave Thompson/PA

Another look at a giant Japanese Spider Crab, which can weigh as much as 44 pounds .

Two brown bears appear to be gossiping as they play in the snow at the Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany
Picture: SVEN HOPPE/AFP/Getty Images

A large beetle creeps inside a wild flower in Mushager village near Amman, Jordan
Photograph: Jamal Nasrallah/EPA

A Madagascar day gecko sits on a perch in the Masoal rainforest hall at the zoo in Zurich
Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

An eastern screech-owl hides in a tiny hole in a tree in Providence, Rhode Island. Photographer Peter Green spent two years attempting to capture the moment after being tipped off by friends about the bird’s quirky behaviour
Photograph: Peter Green/Barcroft Media

A peacock preens its feathers at the gardens of San Anton Palace, the official residence of Malta’s president, in Attard, outside Valletta
Photograph: DARRIN ZAMMIT LUPI/REUTERS

“Silhouettes of Africa”
Kalahari lions walk along the dry Nossob riverbed in the early morning at Kgalagadi Transfrontier park in South Africa
by Mario Moreno Photography / Barcroft Media/
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A zebra calf seeks protection by the mother’s side, Savuti, Botswana
by Mario Moreno Photography
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Tiger cub – smile for the camera.
by David Lambert Photography

Take your antelope to work day !!
Aluna, a baby Dik-dik, walks across a computer keyboard in the office of Tim Rowlands, curator of mammals at Chester Zoo, in England on March 12. The miniature antelope which is only 8 inches tall is being hand reared by the zoo after failing to bond with its mother.
by Phil Noble / Reuters

Mini Meerkat!!
A 6-week-old meerkat pup walks through the grass in its enclosure on March 11 at the Oakland Zoo in California. The Oakland Zoo is welcoming three 6-week-old meerkat pups to its current mob, or clan, of meerkats. The new pups are named Ayo, Rufaro and Nandi.
by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

A sleepy king
A lions yawns at Nairobi’s National Park in Kenya on March 11.
by Marko Djurica / Reuters

Peculiar pig!!
A hairless guinea pig called Mumps is presented at the international pet show in Lublin, Poland on March 9.
by Wojciech Pacewicz / EPA

Mother and child !!
A 3-week-old female Mishmi takin is seen with its mother on March 9 at the zoo in Wroclaw, Poland. The Mishmi takin is an endangered goat-antelope native to India, Myanmar and China.
by Maciej Kulczynski / EPA

A good grip!!
An almost 1-month-old male collared mangabey sits near its mother at the Wroclaw Zoo in Poland on March 8. Mangabey monkeys come from West Africa and live in the lower parts of the forests and floodplains. The species is threatened with extinction due to hunting.
by Maciej Kulczynski / EPA

Surf’s up !!
Dolphins surf along a wave during day three of the Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour event in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa.
by Nic Bothma / EPA

It’s shark week somewhere !!
A great white shark breaches while hunting its favorite food, the Cape fur seal.
by Daren Fentiman / Zuma Press

Earning her stripes !!
Wendy, the mother zebra of a newborn male, looks on at the Rome Zoo.
by Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters

G’day!
Lillian, a 6-month-old koala, is cradled between the front and back legs of her mother, Erna, at the zoo in Sydney.
by Lorinda Taylor / AFP – Getty Images

Make way for duckling !!
A duckling makes its way through water lenses at the zoo in Berlin.
by Tobias Kleinschmidt / AFP – Getty Images

That’s deep !!
A deep-sea anglerfish swims as scientists from the Queensland Brain Institute, using high-tech cameras, photographed sea creatures at a depth of over 1,000 meters at the Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea off the northeastern coast of Australia.
by Justin Marshall / AFP – Getty Images

Waving hello !!
A raccoon walks through his enclosure at the animal park in Springe near Hanover, western Germany.
by Peter Steffen / AFP – Getty Images

Caring cat !!
Tita, a cat belonging to Ruben Gaviria, nurses a squirrel as her kitten plays with it at Gaviria’s house in Envigado near Medellin in Colombia.
by Albeiro Lopera / Reuters

White Cat
by László Oláh

Female Tiger, Bandipur, India
by Sandeep Dutta Photography
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Asiatic Leopard in Tree
by Sandeep Dutta Photography
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Inquisitive female tiger coming for closer inspection
by Sandeep Dutta Photography
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Ugandan Elephant with a dancing bird on its back..
by Jonothan Hen-Boisen
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This is Peanut the turtle, shortly after being found in Missouri in 1993. She was taken to to a zoo in St. Louis where the six-pack ring was removed.
It seems that she was trapped in the plastic ring as a young turtle and was unable to free herself. Subsequently her shell moulded itself to the plastic ring and she grew in the strange shape you see here.
Unfortunately the damage is permanent, but peanut is expected to live a long life and today she serves as a mascot for the fight against beach littering.
Get Involved:
Always cut up your six-pack rings
Pick up litter
Tell others not to litter
Throw fishing line away properly
Keep streets clean
Clean up waterways with help from Adopt-a-River!
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Snow Owl
by Michel Roy

Stunning Female Leopard, Okavango, Botswana
by Grant Atkinson/Atkinson Photography and Safaris
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A female leopard at rest, along the Linyanti River, Botswana.
by Grant Atkinson/Atkinson Photography and Safaris
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A pair of hippo in combat, from the Chobe River, Botswana.
by Grant Atkinson/Atkinson Photography and Safaris
There are still some spaces left on another photosafari that he will be leading there next month with Pangolin Photo Safaris, read more here:
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Orchid Mantis
by Igor Siwanowicz

The End?
By: Evgeni P.

Love is in the air !!
by Evgeni P.

Panthera pardus Kotiya
by Irawan Subingar Photography

This photograph of a female common merganser catching a fish was taken by wildlife photographer Henryk Janowski who managed to get inches away from the action by using an ingenious floating canopy crafted to look like a swan
Picture: HENRYK JANOWSKI/CATERS NEWS

An Asiatic elephant calf is seen under his mother Sammy at Zoomadrid in Madrid, Spain
Picture: DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty ImagesAn Asiatic elephant calf is seen under his mother Sammy at Zoomadrid in Madrid, Spain
Picture: DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images

Double Impact, Sabi Sands, South-Africa
by Marius Coetzee Photography
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Kali, an orphaned polar bear cub, plays with his new best friend: a stuffed teddy bear.
by John Gomes/Alaska Zoo

Kali is bottle fed at his temporary home at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage on March 23.
by John Gomes/Alaska Zoo

A young koala bear clutching a toy koala while being weighed at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany on March 27.
by AFP – Getty Images

Baby on Board
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The lion sleeps tonight!!
A lion lies in the sun at the Tierpark Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, Germany, on March 26.
by Christian Charisius / AFP – Getty Images

Eastern Bongo, Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland
by Karen Stout

African Wild Dog Portrait
by Marius Coetzee
http://www.oryxphotography.com/

“Inquisitive Caracal”
by Marius Coetzee Photography

Kangaroo sidekick!!
A young red-necked wallaby looks out of its mother’s pouch at the zoo in Stralsund, Germany, on March 26.
by Stefan Sauer / AFP – Getty Images

Hanging around!!
A Rodrigues fruit bat hangs on a perch in the Masoala Rainforest Hall at the zoo in Zurich on March 26.
by Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters

Angry Hare!!
A funny young scrub hare after being drenched in the pouring rain all night.
by Calvin Kotze Photography
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Male Leopard marking his territory.
by Calvin Kotze Photography
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Leopard Cub Exploring…
by Calvin Kotze Photography
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Dirt bath!!
Young Asian elephant Anchali throws some dirt on herself at the Berlin Zoo on March 26.
by John Macdougall / AFP – Getty Images

Phinda Sunset Cheetah , Phinda Private Game Reserve, South africa
by Wim Vorster Photography
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The Three Musketeers!!
Meerkat Trio, Tswalu, Kalahari
by Wim Vorster Photography
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Wolf Trio!!
by Peter Hausner Hansen
http://500px.com/photo/29714977

Lemur Metro!!
by Peter Hausner Hansen
http://500px.com/photo/29714821

Choose To Stop Pollution
Today we also look at the pollution in seas. We all like a picnic at the beach , a boat ride or a cruise. But some of our actions are creating a big disaster for sea life. Please don’t throw garbage of any kind in rivers , lakes or seas. The impact of pollution is much higher in water than on land.
Get Involved:
Always cut up your pack rings
Pick up litter
Tell others not to litter
Throw fishing line away properly
Keep streets clean
Clean up waterways with help from Adopt-a-River!
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Unperturbable Observer

Blink Blink !!
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Bird Whisperer
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Don’t wake me up!
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Smacker!!
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Kerching!!!
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Photographer Ronald Wittek from Speyer, Germany photographed this group of marmots eating biscuits in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Austria
Picture: Ronald Wittek/Solent

A two-month-old snow fox cub lies inside a cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo on the surburbs of Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk
Picture: REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

A pair of Canada geese swim with their newborn gosling in a pond along the eighth-hole fairway of Qualchan Golf Course in Spokane, Wash.
Picture: AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Colin Mulvany

An adult owl marches about the countryside looking for food to feed its brood of hungry owlets on a farm in Lancashire. The bizarre scene was captured by keen snapper Austin Thomas who had to stay camouflaged and stop himself from laughing in case he scared the funny birds and missed out on getting the shots.
Picture: AUSTIN THOMAS / CATERS NEWS

Two-month-old Bengal tiger cub Tily at the animal refuge La Fundación Refugio Salvaje (Furesa) in La Libertad on the outskirts of San Salvador. The refuge takes care of species in danger of extinction
Photograph: ULISES RODRIGUEZ/REUTERS

An elephant showers a leopard with water to protect the herd. The leopard had been stalking the herd of around 15 elephants when one decided to frighten it off. The picture was taken by Mark Muller in Etosha National Park of Namibia at the Kalkeuwel waterhole.
Picture: MARK VINCENT MULLER / CATERS NEWS

Panda sleeps in a tree at the Panda Valley Park in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, China
Picture: Quirky China News / Rex Features

The Black Dam Pride of lions play in Kruger National Park, South Africa. The intimate shots of the pride were captured by photographer Tom Coetzee.
Picture: Tom Coetzee / Barcroft Media

Photographer Rainer Schimpf photographing sharks off the coast of Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Picture: Rainer Schimpf / Barcroft Me

TODAY I’M A SPHINX! BY MARK BRIDGER

Gorgeous Cheetah, shiley at San Diego Zoo Safari Park
by Jayne Oden Photography

Siberian Tiger, Zürich zoo, Switzerland
by Tambako Photography

Glacial Waterfalls, Svalbard.
by Keenpress Photography.

RACCOON BY ALEXANDER KURITSYN

A wee cute down chick corncrake
by A yubov Vojvodić

Lions cubs welcome dad home….
by Chad Cocking Wildlife Photography

Tingana Leopadess relaxing in a marula tree, Timbavati, South Africa
by Chad Cocking Wildlife Photography

Contemplative Cat!!
Riki-san the Clouded Leopard Cub at San Diego Zoo
by Penny Hyde Photography

The Barreleye”
Fish with Transparent Head

barbary lion
by natalie manuel

Vigilant Tiger
by Justin Lo

Lion Band of Brothers
by Shlomi Nissim

Motswari Leopard!!
A male Leopard known as Makepesi poses elegantly. Image taken in Motswari Private Game Reserve in the heart of the Timbavati Nature Reserve in South Africa. BOOK NOW ! to join their next “Big Cats” photo safari at www.southcapeimages.com
by MARIOMORENO Photography

Ramtastic Horns!
They don’t call them rams for nothing.
by Rinus Bakker Photography

White Lion nr Timbavati River Lodge, Timbavati Wildlife Park.
Courtesy of Harold Weitsz Photography
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African Black Leopard!

Under Cover Elephant Calf at San Diego Safari Park
by Laurie Rubin Photography

lion greeting by etienne oosthuizen photographic africa

Astonished Lion Cub.
by Ashley Vincent Photography

Clouded Leopard Cub, Cautious Advance
by Ashley Vincent Photography

cheetah cub by michael north

lion cubs at play by agnes escriva

elephant foot and mouth

african lion cub beverly joubert nat geo

leopard and cheetah face off botswana by jamie hopf nat geo

Tiger cooling off in a watering hole in Bandhavgarh National Park, India by michael nichols nat geo

croc swim thru lunch by marina scarr nat geo contest 2012

Young Elephant Bulls Trunk Twister Match
by Calvin Kotze Wildlife Photography

Southern White-Faced Owl
by Calvin Kotze Wildlife Photography

Giraffe Silhouette Wallpaper!

Asian Brown Wood Owl by Alan Lenk

Forest elephants gather at Dzanga Bai clearing in the Dzanga-Sangha reserve, in Central African Republic. Elephant meat is flooding food markets in villages near the famed wildlife reserve in Central African Republic one month after rebels believed to be involved in poaching overthrew the government, conservationists said
Photograph: Carlos Drews/AP/WWF-Canon

Brink of Extinction!
Barbary Lion (aka Atlas Lion aka Nubian Lion), at Port Lympne Wildlife Park in Kent , UK
by Ashley Vincent

black panther by jason brown photography

Puma in tree!

A six-month-old orangutan rescued from a pet owner learns to climb a tree while undergoing rehabilitation at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program quarantine area in Sibolangit village in Indonesia’s Sumatra island
Photograph: Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images

A newborn common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) baby peeking out from its mother’s pouch in the Budapest Zoo, Hungary. The baby was born in winter and is a big sensation as a wombat cub hasn’t been born in European zoos in 20 years, and outside Australia only 22 wombats live in 12 zoos
Photograph: Attila Kovacs/EPA

Gorgeous Ocelot!

Feisty African Leopard

Sand Cat Family!

Black Leopard & Cub!

Snow Leopard Cubs at Play!

Arctic Wolf Pups!

Fox Pups Wallpaper!

Beautiful Ocicat Wallpaper!

Giraffe Trio Wallpaper!

Mountain Bluebird by Keith Williams

A giant panda rests on a tree in Ya’an, Sichuan province, China
Photograph: Reuters

A Kirk’s dik-dik, a small antelope found in eastern and southwestern Africa, in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve
Photograph: Zhang Chen/Barcroft Media

A group of giraffes in the Samburu National Reserve, Kenya
Photograph: Zhang Chen/Corbis

A hare in a field near Hanover, central Germany
Photograph: Julian Stratenschulte/AFP/Getty Images

A white stork transports material for its nest in Luetzelsee, Switzerland
Photograph: Steffen Schmidt/EPA

Black Jaguar – When Night Meets Day !!
by Mike Shaw

The Shoebill!
This species is also referred to using the names Whalehead or Shoe-billed Stork. The bird has a large shoe-shaped bill, hence its unusual name. The Shoebill lives in tropical East Africa in large swamps. There’s is large population of them in Uganda’s Mabamba Swamps.
by David Li Photography

Stunning Lion Portrait
by Gavin Rosenbaum Photography

The best kind of traffic jam, south african style
by Maurice Rolfe

Essence of Elephants!!
Greg du Toit Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013
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Roaring Lion Brutus
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Marakele Aardvark
by Rudi van den Heever/ LinRu Photo
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Rhino Mud Bath
by Rudi van den Heever/ LinRu Photo
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Hi There!!
Part of a large herd of Elephants, taken on the plains of Kidepo.Valley National Park, Uganda
by Ken Watkins

Adorable Tiger Cubs
by Jens Meyer /Associated Press

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Gorgeous Female Sumatran Tiger Cub at Chester Zoo, UK
by Garry Brookshaw
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This is my nest!!
Leopard mother and cub up a tree.
by Mohan Thomas Photography

Gorgeous Young Tiger
by Jan Willemsen Photography

Mountain Gorilla and Baby in Bwindi Forest, Uganda. Photographed by Jay Kilimanjaro of Julia African Safaris, who offer some great safari packages all over East Africa.
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“The world’s tallest animal (up to 5.5m) lives in loosely structured mixed-sex herds, typically numbering between five and 15 animals. The race found in Uganda is Rothschild’s giraffe, rare elsewhere in its former range but very common in the northern part of Murchison Falls National Park. A small herd is present in Kidepo Valley.” Uganda:
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An elephant calf stretches it’s trunk out to the maximum to drink at Hapoor Dam in Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa
by Mario Moreno Photography
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Warrior Cat of Mara
by Maqsood Mughal
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Double Whammy
Elephant and hippos, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
by Amy Fallon

Ocelot Beauty
by Joke Kok

Follow the leader
by Andrew Schoeman Wildlife Photography
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Jackal Buzzard
by Brendon Cremer Wildlife Photography
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Gently does it!!
A female leopard carrying her very young cub very carefully.
Photographed at Dumatau in Botswana, by Grant Atkinson, whilst leading a photosafari.
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Sunset Dragonfly
by Grant Atkinson / Atkinson Photography and Safaris
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Lunch Break!!
Cape Fox Mom & Pups
by Digitalwild Nature & Wildlife Photography by Hendri Venter
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Elephant, Kazinga Channel, Queen Elizabeth National Park Uganda
Wildplaces Africa offer some great safari deals, where you will be hosted in the finest accommodation in Uganda’s wildest places.
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Baby Orangutan
by Toonman Blchin.

A stunning image of a herd of elephants after crossing the Chobe River by Chobe Savanna Lodge, Namibia, with a beautiful cloudscape as a backdrop. The incredible image was captured by photographic safari guide & photographer Grant Atkinson. For enquiries about future photosafari tours and workshops with Grant, please follow his sites:
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Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
A mountain gorilla rests watchfully along a lush hillside in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. The park, which borders Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Uganda, is where pioneering gorilla researcher Dian Fossey based her studies.
Photograph by Robin Hammond, Panos Pictures

See you later mom!!
A angry elephant bull flipping a full grown mother hippo trying to protect it’s young. They soon re-united and both were fine.
by Rian van Schalkwyk Photography
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Buffaloes range through out much of Africa. Check out this breathtaking view from Uganda’s Kidepo ValleyPhoto: Charles Steinberg
For safari inquiries to to Kidepo Valley National Park, check out Wildplaces Africa who have a beautiful lodge within the park: Apoka Safari Lodge

Elephantastic 3 Tone Texture
by Rudi Hulshof 
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A cheetah mother guides her family of six cubs through the dew-covered grass shortly after sunrise in the Masai Mara, Kenya
Photo: Paul Mckenzie/Barcroft Media

Tiger Splish Splash !!
by Sheri Hemrick

Leopard enjoying its lunch up a tree.
Photo by Nature guide Debbie Olivier

Gorgeous Tiger
by John Conwest

Defending the Arctic & its precious wildlife is not a crime!
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Notch and Son, Masai Mara, Kenya
by Cedric Favero

Leopard in The Blue Light
A Leopard captured in the blue light hour in the Motswari Game Reserve in The Timbavati Nature Reserve, which is located on the western border of Kruger National Park in South Africa. Image taken on The Big Cats photographic safari.
by Mario Moreno Photography
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Baby Mute Swan
by Diana Ka

Shangwa, a female leopard from Sabi sands
by Rudi Hulshof Photography

Rubber Lips!!
Python in the process of Swallowing a Wildebeest Calf
by Rudi Hulshof
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A one-month-old white rhino with her mother in the Cabarceno wildlife park in northern Spain. The white rhino was the first born in the park
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#ChickenSwag!!
Rescued battery farm chickens get specially made chic winter coats, Bournemouth, Britain. Chickens in battery farms never leave their cages or see the outside world. The new owners feared they wouldn’t be able to tolerate the cold weather.
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Gangnam Style gorilla! Youngster shows off funky moves – part 1

Gangnam Style gorilla! Youngster shows off funky moves – part 2

Lion
by Jessica Mathews

A Tender Moment
by Al Meilan

Elephant in must in Kidepo Valley National Park, Uganda
by jmkphotos (Blue ribbon winner)

Southern White-Faced Owl
by Calvin Kotze Wildlife Photography

Sunset on the Nile, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
by jmkphotos

A Cheetah portrait ( Acinonyx jubatus ) captured in warm morning light in the Orpen area in Kruger National Park.
by Mario Moreno
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Happy Mother’s Day
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A young lion not happy with a forced crossing of deep water.
by Grant Atkinson – Atkinson Photography and Safaris
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Lion Cub Portrait !!
by Christopher Dodds Nature Photographer
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White Rhino Grazing
by Maqsood Mughal

Lion cubs at play, Masai Mara, Kenya
by Albie Venter
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“The ghost and the darkness”
by Marlon du Toit Photography
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Mr & Mrs Simba posing for visitors at Nairobi National Park, Kenya
by Maqsood Mughal Photography

The hoatzin is a very crazy looking bird- its mohican is surely unrivalled in the animal kingdom. Their young have specially adapted claws so that if a predator attacks the nest the young can jump out, before climbing the tree to get back in once the danger has passed. The prehistoric weirdness doesn’t stop there, the call of the hoatzin resembles an old man with asthma!
They live around the edges of tropical forest lakes where they eat aquatic vegetation. Hoatzin are usually very shy which makes getting photos of them difficult. This particular one was shot in a lake, near the Crees research station, Peru, where the hoatzin were particularly tolerant.
by Bertie Gregory Photography
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Stunning image of a young, was runner up in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year in the category “Animal Portraits”.
by Hans Lochner/ Lochner Photography & Publishing
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Elephant Parade, along Chove River, Botswana
by Gavin Rosenbaum
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An elusive female leopard sauntered through the thick grass as the dew droplets gathered on her nose.
by Ross Couper Photography

Namib Sunset
by Stefano Rassano

A killer whale attacks a south american sea lion in Otaria, Patagonia
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Black Jaguar
by Borsov Michail

Lilac Breasted Roller
by Zlatkov.35

Royal Orgasm, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.
by Wim Vorster Photography

Two female Red Panda cubs in their enclosure at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park near Ashford
Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA

Shoebill Stork
by Jasdt
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A lion patrolling the swamps of the Okavango Delta, Botswana
by Dana Allen PhotoSafari
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On Thin Ice
by Igor Shpilenok

Surfing croc, Rubondo Island, Tanzania.
by Anton Crone, a freelance writer and photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa. Visit his blog Bright Continent or follow him on Twitter

Bobcat at Waterhole
by Jeremy Woodhouse

Lake Umbagog Sunset!!
Photographed from a remote island at Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge
by Neal Eslinger Photography

Motherly Love
This was a very touching moment when the mother picked up her baby chacma baboon..
by Hilton Kotze

Blue Eyed Beauty -Thumbela
by Chad Cocking Wildlife Photography

Three Amboseli elephant- Kenya.
by Elsen Karstad

Baby elephant Ludwig at the Tierpark Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, Germany
Photo: FRANK LEONHARDT/AFP/Getty Images

Adorable Leopard Cubs
These leopard cubs were taken early one morning in the timbavati reserve ,south Africa. mom had leaft them to go hunting and they were lying on a rock sunbathing being very curious.there was a lovely blend of autum colors as they were surrounded by mopani trees.
by Hilton Kotze

Luna, the Queen of the Kalahari
by Lochner Photography & Publishing
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Crowned Crane, Masai Mara, Kenya
by Elsen Karstad
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A dominant leopard relaxing high up a tree and scanning his territory in the OKavango Delta, Botswana. Image captured by Grant Atkinson whilst co-leading a photosafari with Andy Biggs Photo Safaris and Eyes on Africa. To keep up with his wild adventures and for enquiries on future photographic tours, follow his sites:
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2013 BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards Runner-Up animals in Environment Category
by Wim van den Heever Wildlife Photography

Thirsty Leopards, Sabi Sand, South Africa
by Rudi Hulshof Photography
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Cheetah mother and cubs
by Bert

Flehmen King at Nairobi National Park, Kenya
by Maqsood Mughal

Back Off

Cheetah cub getting a facial wash after feasting on an impala during a photographic safari with Africa Geographic & andBeyond
by Andrew Schoeman Photography
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A lioness and cubs drinking from a small waterhole at Tintswalo Lodge, Manyaleti Game Reserve, South Africa
by Brendon Cremer
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Polar Bear Stretch, Churchill
by Dennis Minty

Barn Owl, Bastard Wings
by Tin Man Photography

Black Silk

He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother!!
by Gavin Rosenbaum Wildlife Photography

Mountain Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda. For an intimate trip to Uganda, check out Premier Safaris, who have a proven track record in providing memorable safari experiences through out East Africa.

Tree Climbing Lion, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
by James Suter
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Zebra Landscape, Maasai Mara, Kenya
by Sally Walton Photography

Lioness and cub at watering hole in Savute, Botswana
by Hendri Venter
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Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
A large wildlife preserve and conservation area in southern Africa. The park straddles the border between South Africa and Botswana. Kgalagadi means “place of thirst”.
Photo Hougaard Malan

Rare Footage of the African Golden Cat
Camera trap footage from the jungles of Uganda has revealed rare images of an African golden cat, as well as providing evidence that the cat behaves contrary to what was previously believed.
Based on the camera trap footage, which was taken in Uganda’s Kibale National Park by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the big cat conservation group Panthera, researchers determined the African golden cat is actually cathemeral, meaning it’s active both at night and during the day.
African golden cats have only rarely been seen by scientists, and not much is known about them.
The newly released camera trap footage adds to a rare collection of images of the African golden cat. The first wild footage of the rare cats was taken in 2011 by Panthera scientists in Gabon.
Interestingly, the researchers used the cologne Calvin Klein Obsession for Men to lure the cat near the camera trap, where it marked the area with its scent. The cologne is frequently used by researchers to attract cats and other wildlife to remote cameras.(Photo : WCS/Panthera)
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Elephant Curves
by Mario Moreno Photography
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Shy Bear Cub
by Denis Dumoulin

Tiger Close-up
by justinblackphotos

Black Crowned Crane dance – Balearica pavonina @ Ntoroko Semliki Valley, Lake Albert, Uganda
by Jan Rillich

Feeding giraffe in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
by Conservation Concepts

Indian Roller
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Sumatran Tiger Cub
by Cameron Jung

Leopard Descending
by Rudi Hulshof
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Lions Drinking, Kruger Park, South Africa
by Wim Vorster Photography
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Brotherly Love

Gorgeous Ocelot
by Paul Bratescu

Archangel Eagle – African Fish Eagle
by Jacobus de Wet/Nat Geo

The Right Stuff!!
Lion patrolling the swamps at Duba Plains Camp, Okavango Delta, Botswana
by Dana Allen PhotoSafari 
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Regal Fight!!
Two male lions from the Marsh Pride scrapping over a female.
by David Lloyd Wildlife Photography
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The King of Cool
by David Lloyd Wildlife Photography

African Wild Dog
by Peter Winnan

Wrestling Giraffes
by Dana Allen Photosafari
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Battle of the Giants!
Two bull elephants testing each other’s strengths and swimming the afternoon away in Kruger National Park
by Calvin Kotze Wildlife Photography

Seven lion cubs of the Ximungwe pride.
by Calvin Kotze Wildlife Photography

A young weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) relaxingon a floating iceberg. Photographed by GUTS during his recent Antartica Expedition with Pangolin PhotoSafaris

Lion Strutting Like a Boss
by Arno Meintjes Wildlife Photography

Leopard focused on a potential prey at Sabi Sands, SA
by Corne Schalkwyk Photography

Muddy Face
A cute baby gorilla photographed playing in the Virunga, during a recent gorilla trekking safari to Uganda and Rwanda, organised by Premier Safaris (Marasa Africa).
by Adalberto Mangini Wildlife Photography

Stunning Leopard
by Marius Coetzee Wildlife Photography
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Welcome to the African Wilderness! Let the Safari begin..
by Mems Carim

Cheetah Aerobics, Kruger National Park, South Africa
by Mems Carim

Mini Horse
by Laerta

A curious young male male leopard at Sandibe Camp, Okavango Delta, Botswana by Grant Atkinson who is currently leading a photographic safari to the same location with Andy Biggs.
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Elephantastic Stretch
This rare shot was captured by Marlon du Toit, whilst leading a photographic safari for Wild Eye Expeditions to Mana Pools National Park.
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Tree Climbing Lions, Kidepo Valley National Park, Uganda
by Marc Leo

Animals are also victims of war – and in Congo, that means the beautiful okapi.
The alert about the okapi follows a new assessment of its population in its only home, the rainforests of the eastern side of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For nearly 20 years, this region has been one of the most dangerous places on earth, for humans and for animals both, ever since the 1994 Hutu-Tutsi genocide in Rwanda spilled over the border into the DRC and sparked continuous conflict between the government and a shifting assortment of rebel groups, in what became known as “Africa’s world war”.
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New species of wild cat identified in Brazil
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Kidepo Valley National Park, the most remote national park in Uganda. It also houses the only population of cheetahs in Uganda. For a trip to this wonderful game park, we recommend Wildplaces Africa, who have the finest accommodation in the wildest places in Uganda. They do have a luxury safari lodge there: Apoka Safari Lodge
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White tiger cubs
by Jean-Claude

Rhino Morning Walk
by Chad Wright Photography
Look out for his forthcoming safaris to Madikwe Game Reserve – 27 -31 August 2014 through  Wild Eye
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His Majesty, Connor the Malayan Tiger
by Penny Hyde

The Vegetarian
by batterjob32

The Son of The Boss
by Willem Verboom

White tiger cub strut
by Jean-Claude Sch.

Black Bear Spring Cub
by Charles Glatzer
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Striped Hyena
by Courtney McNealy

Baby Harp Seal Wallpaper

Raccoon Wallpaper

Lion cub playing with her mom’s tail.
Photographed by Grant Atkinson, whilst leading an Eyes on Africa PhotoSafari to northern Botswana
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Botswana Chitabe / Mombo- April 2014
Chobe Photographic Safari – September 2014

African Wild Dog Puppies, Northern Botswana
by Atkinson Photography Safaris
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Elusive Leopard, Masai Mara, Kenya
by David Lloyd Wildlife Photography
Join him on safari in 2014
He hosts specialist photographic safaris to the Masai Mara in Kenya for photographers of all skill levels.
There are only limited spaces now for his Big Cat Photo Safaris in March. See: http://bit.ly/bigcatphotosafari
He’s offering 10% early booking discounts for his Great Migration Photo Safaris in August. See: http://bit.ly/migrationphotosafari
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Who knew bobcats like water.
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Beautiful Black leopard Cub
by Susi Fischer Photography

Lion Cubs,, Savute, Botswana
by Hendri Venter
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Stunning Leopard, Okavango Delta, Botswana
by Isak Pretorius Wildlife Photography
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Cheetah Mother and Cub, Masai Mara, Kenya
by African Wildlife Photography Maggy Meyer
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Lioness with her two cubs snuggle at Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
by Borkeh Images
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A baby hippo bobs next to its mother, in Kenya’s Masai Mara game reserve
Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell

Wildebeest cross the Mara river in the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya. Only months after their annual migration south to Tanzania’s Serengeti national park, thousands of wildebeest have been spotted back in the Masai Mara, a rare occurrence which wildlife officials say may be the result of drought and insufficient pastureland in Tanzania
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Kitty Boat
by Andrew Maidanik

Damai, a Sumatran tiger, plays with one of her two cubs as the cubs make their public debut at the National Zoo in Washington, Nov. 18, 2013.
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A young female giraffe trying to mate an older male at Simbavati River Lodge
by Christof Schoeman Wildlife Photography

Help Mom!!
This baby Elephant kept loosing his footing as he tries to reach his mother. Upon realising he couldn’t climb the steep embankment, he cried out for his mom who then helped him up the slippery slope. Image photographed by Wim Van den Heever whilst on a photosafari to Chobe, Botswana with Outdoor Photo Safaris (ODP Safaris)
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Seeing Double
by Gerry Van der Walt / Wild Eye
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Baboons Acrobats
by Stéphane ROY

“One day I want to be big like you mom”
Photosafari to Phinda Game Reserve, South Africa
by Wim Van den Heever
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Jaguar Siblings Love
by Seb Photos

Kingfisher Dive
by Paul Sawer

Yellow Mongoose Family
by Chad Wright Photography
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A young female leopard goes vertical, easily scaling a marula tree to use as a vantage point, Savanna Lodge, South Africa
by Neil Whyte Photography

Cheetah Focus
by Rory Boon Photography
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Eyes of a killer
by Chad Wright Photography
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Dark Shadow Stare
by Seb Photos

Take a good, long, hard look, because without our help these beautiful creatures will be gone forever in the wild..
by Steve Wilson

Serengeti lion cubs taken on safari with andbeyond
by Karell Travel Group.

Beautiful Serval
by Patrick Bakkum

Chillaxing Tiger
by Miliani Rachid

Giant Kingfisher
by Isak Pretorius Wildlife Photography