Animal Tracks: June 28 - July 4

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-25 20:44:15

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The water's fine

Owner Mark Slevin's dog Ringo leaps off the dock into the pool as he retrieves a bumper during the DockDogs competition in downtown Houston. Hundreds of dogs competed in different categories over the holiday weekend.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-25 20:44:39

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Ted S. Warren / AP

Back away from the watermelon

A meerkat at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle defends a watermelon from three others. The animals were given the treats for the Fourth of July holiday. Eventually, all of them appeared to have had a chance to sample the tasty treat.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-25 20:45:01

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Heng Sinith / AP

Crawling away

A Cambodian girl shows off a live spider clinging on her shirt at the town of Skun, Kampong Cham province, 46 miles northeast of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The town is the well-known place for selling deep-fried spiders to travelers, who stop by on their way to and from the country's northern and northeastern provinces. Live spiders are also put into rice wine to make traditional medicinal liquor.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-25 20:45:22

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Robin Loznak / Zuma Press

Ready for my closeup

A newly emerged adult dragonfly dries its wings in the sunshine near a pond in Roseburg, Ore. The larval stage of large dragonflies may last as long as five years. When the larva is ready to metamorphose into an adult, it climbs up a reed or plant.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-25 20:45:45

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AP

A rare snuggle

Long-billed vulture chicks huddle at a breeding center in Pinjore, northern India's Haryana state. One of the world's most endangered birds, the vultures have been bred in captivity for the first time in India, scientists said.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-25 20:47:12

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Rogelio V. Solis / AP

You laughing at me?

Three Appaloosa horses sport their personal fly masks as they dine on hay while awaiting transportation back to Troy, Mo., following their competing in the 2010 World Championship Appaloosa Youth Show in Jackson, Miss. The fly masks protect the horses' eyes from flies and other winged bugs, as well as UV-rays.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-25 20:47:34

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Jochen Luebke / EPA

A cool shower

A yet nameless baby elephant and its mother Farina literally soak up a refreshing shower in the zoo of Hanover, Germany.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-25 20:48:07

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Kevin Zhao / Reuters

Baby, it's hot outside

A baby monkey holds on to its mother in a swimming pool to escape the summer heat at Nanwan Monkey Island in Lingshui county in China's Hainan province.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-25 20:48:27

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Hazir Reka / Reuters

A wrong turn

A butterfly is caught in a spider web in the Sharr mountains, southwest of the Kosovo capital Pristina.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-25 20:48:48

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Greg Wood / AFP - Getty Images

Tastes like chicken

Two live Tasmanian devils eat fresh meat placed inside a fake dead kangaroo designed to look like road kill at Taronga Zoo's new Tasmanian Devil Breeding Center in Sydney. The center will play an important role in helping to save the world's largest remaining carnivorous marsupial, allowing visitors to the zoo to see conservation action, with an outdoor 'classroom' showing the difficulties the devil faces in the wild.

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