Taking flight A swan spreads its wings on Lake Ammersee close to Stegen, Germany. Beast at the ballotA dog is seen waiting as its owner is in a polling booth at a polling station in Nice, France. Bear hugsThe polar bear cub twins Aleut and Gregor enjoy the outdoors under supervision of mother Vera at Nuremberg Zoo in Nuremberg, Germany. It's the climbA one-inch-long Pacific tree frog climbs in grass near a pond on a rural farm near Oakland, Ore. Pacific tree frogs, which are also known as the Pacific chorus frogs, are the most common frog on the we Pack of camelsOmani trainers run in front of their camels at the start of the annual camel race in the Flaija race court in the south of Muscat. Statue snackingA bird picks food from the mouth of Kal Bhairab's statue, the Hindu god of destruction, at Durbar Square in Kathmandu. Earning his stripesA zebra enjoys the spring sun at it's zoo enclosure in Eberswalde, Germany. Life's a boarA young boar stands next to its mother at a deer park in Klaistow, eastern Germany. The piglets lose their characteristic striped coat after approximately three to four months and replace it with a unicolored brown coat. Floating fishTwo Australian spotted jellyfish float in an aquarium of the Budapest Zoo in Budapest, Hungary. Out on a limbFeeders try to reach a panda cub which rests on branches at the Giant Panda Breading Base in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province. Got a seat for me?A pelican stands at the side of the lake as people enjoy the spring weather from a bench in a park in Essen, Germany. Will climb for sunAn orangutan enjoys the first spring sun at the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, the Netherlands. Eye contactA close-up view shows an eye of a pink flamiNGO at the Villa Lorena animal refuge centre in Cali, Colombia. Protected porpoiseJapanese pet shop owner Ryo Taira rescues a young finless porpoise from a flooded rice paddy in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture. The small cetacean was brought inland by the huge tsunami waves that recently inundated the area. Grazing groundsSheep graze at the ancient Greek and Roman ruined city of Cyrene in modern-day Shahaat, eastern Libya. Take out menuA grey heron flies off with a fish in his beak after feeding time at the zoo in Heidelberg. |