1. Mushon, 45, a Sumatran Orangoutang plays
with a piece of bamboo and a tin can in the Tel
Aviv Ramt Gan Zoological Center near Tel Aviv,
Israel, March 23, 2014.

2. A zoo staff member touches Mango, a 19-year-old Syrian brown bear, during
preparations for his surgery at the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv, May 7, 2014.

3. A baby sloth peeks out from behind a door on a floating house near Manaus, Brazil, May 20, 2014.

4. An Australian Koala, born with a damaged eye,
sits atop a branch in its enclosure at Sydney Zoo,
Sydney, April 3, 2014.

5. A crow on the roof of the Chancellery, Berlin, May 6, 2014.

6. A dolphin
jumps as a
large wave
starts to roll,
San Diego,
Calif., Jan. 20,
2014.

7. Fighters struggle with a wild horse during
a traditional event in the Spanish village
of Sabucedo, July 5, 2014.

8. Oklahoma City police officer Sgt. Ryan
Stark leans over the casket of his
canine partner, K-9 Kye, following
funeral services for the dog in
Oklahoma City, Aug. 28, 2014.

9. A veterinary staff member at an orangutan conservation center
conducts medical examinations on an orangutan found with air
gun metal pellets embedded in his body in Sibolangit district,
northern Sumatra, Indonesia, April 16, 2014.

10. Chickens are seen surrounded by
plants covered by ash from Mount
Sinabung near Sigarang-Garang
village in Karo district, Indonesia's
North Sumatra province, Jan. 12,
2014.

11. A cat colored with green paint in Varna east of Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 05, 2014.

12. Mustafa Mohamed, 5,
reaches to trim a horse
at his father's
makeshift animal
barber shop in Cairo,
March 8, 2014.

13. A fisherman transports a dead whale shark after it was caught in fishermen's net, in Yangzhi county, Fujian
province Aug. 1, 2014.

14. Fisherman feed their otters as they catch
fish in Narail, Bangladesh, March 11, 2014.

15. 35,000 walruses
gather on shore
near Point Lay,
Alaska, Sept. 27,
2014.

16. Top view of a lion on the cage of a vehicle at the Safari Lion Zoo in Rancagua, Chile, Oct. 30, 2014.

17. An eight-month-old trained
monkey sits on a can next to his
owner, holding the leash as they
wait for customers to perform
to in a park in Islamabad,
Pakistan, Jan. 31, 2014.

18. Maria Torero, seen here
with her son, cares for
175 cats with leukemia
at her home in Lima,
Peru, Aug. 15, 2014.

19. A donkey looks out of its shelter at a coal mine in Choa
Saidan Shah in Punjab Province, Pakistan, May 5, 2014.

20. Indian Border Security Force Dog Squad personnel take
part in a march during Republic Day celebrations in
Jammu. India, Jan. 26, 2014.

21. A bird flies over the crater of mount Bromo after it was
thrown by Hindu worshippers during the Yadnya Kasada
Festival Aug. 12, 2014.

22. A Lipizzan horse is seen during a show of the Spanish
Riding School from Vienna, Austria, at the Ziggo Dome
arena in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Nov. 29, 2014.

23. A young giraffe named
Marius was shot dead
and autopsied in the
presence of visitors to
the gardens at
Copenhagen Zoo, Feb. 9,
2014.

24. A dove released during an
Angelus prayer conducted by
Pope Francis, is attacked by a
seagull in Saint Peter's square
at the Vatican Jan. 26, 2014.

25. A Colombian Army Special Forces soldier rappels with a dog during a
military exercise during the visit of US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
and Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon at a military base in
Tolemaida, Colombia, on October 10, 2014. (Guillermo Legaria/AFP/Getty
Images)

26. A male red deer with antlers
covered in bracken, walks through
undergrowth in Richmond Park,
London, Oct. 3, 2014.

27. A man grooms his mini
poodle after competition at
the 2014 China International
Pet Show in Beijing, Nov. 17,
2014.

28. Swans sit in a boat after they were rounded up from Hamburg's lake Alster, Nov. 18, 2014.

29. A child, cuddling a cat, rests under a shelter at the
earthquake zone in Ludian county, Zhaotong, Yunnan
province, China, on August 5, 2014, following and
earlier earthquake that triggered landslides and killed
more than 400 people. (Reuters/Stringer)

30. A whale captures a pelican between its jaws, Monteray Bay, Calif., Nov. 23, 2014.

31. Fish jump past a tourist during sunset by the island of Koh Tao,
Thailand, on September 20, 2014. (Reuters/Chaiwat Subprasom)

32. A Chinese Crested dog takes a bath
at a pet salon, Sao Paulo March 27,
2014.

33. A raccoon in the Fasanerie animal and plant park, Wiesbaden, Germany, June 21, 2014

34. A small owl yawns as it sits in the snow in Ansung City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, Dec. 4, 2014.

35. Piglets are
carried over
floodwaters by
a resident as
they return to
their home after
fleeing earlier
due to a swollen
river in
suburban San
Mateo, Rizal
province,
Philippines,
Sept. 15, 2014.

36. An elephant
immerses
behind a
window in the
elephants'
indoor pool at
the Zoo in
Leipzig,
Germany, Aug.
5, 2014.

37. A Great White Shark in Mossel Bay, South Africa

38. Japanese Macaque monkeys soak in the warmth of mountain
hotsprings at Jigokudani Monkey Park, Yamanouchi, Japan, Jan.
19, 2014.

39. A Bengal Tiger yawns in its enclosure in Shanghai Zoo, Shanghai, Nov. 18, 2014.

40. In this photo
provided to
Reuters by the
Lort Smith
Animal
Hospital in
Melbourne, a
10-year-old
pet goldfish is
operated for
the removal of
a life-
threatening
head tumor,
Sept. 11, 2014.

41. A horse is rescued, in
Jalandhar, in the northern
Indian state of Punjab, March
5, 2014.

42. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)
An Afghan man leads a goat ahead of the sacrificial Eid al-Adha festival at the animal market during sunset on the outskirts of Herat on
October 2, 2014.

43. A leopard leaps across an under-construction structure near a furniture market in the Degumpur residential area as a bystander moves out of the way in
Meerut, India, Feb. 23, 2014.

44. A panda named Li Li plays on a tree in the
sunshine in a zoo in Hangzhou in Zhejiang
Province, China, Jan. 01, 2014.

45. A cat is placed in a transport bag during
the World Cat Show in Prague, Oct. 25,
2014.

46. (Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images)Colored powder is flies above participants in the annual Holi Run in Madrid, Spain, on on October 19, 2014.

47. A thoroughbred racehorse is
seen after morning workouts
on the day of the 140th
running of the Kentucky
Derby at Churchill Downs in
Louisville, Ky, May 3, 2014.

48. A stray dog from Sochi, Russia gets acclimated to its "doggie den"
after arriving at the Washington Animal Rescue League shelter in
Washington, D.C., March 27, 2014.

49. A cormorant master prepares sea
cormorants in Gifu, Japan, July 2,
2014.

50. A polar bear swims at a
zoo in Mulhouse, France,
on November 13, 2014.
(Sebastien
Bozon/AFP/Getty Images)

51. A bird covered in spilled oil perches on the banks of the San Juan river in
Cadereyta August 26, 2014. An oil pipeline spill contaminated the river in the
northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. The 24-inch Madero-Cadereyta
pipeline, owned by national oil company Pemex, was ruptured when thieves
attempted to tap into it, the company said. (Reuters/Daniel Becerril)

52. A black bear lies on a hammock at a residential back yard in Daytona Beach, Florida early evening on May 30, 2014

53. An Arabian horse stands in
front of a living room door.
After a powerful storm
swept through northern
Germany in December,
Stephanie Arndt brought
the horse, named Nasar,
inside and he now
regularly stays in the
house, Holt, Germany,
Feb. 10, 2014.

54. A cat tears through
a government
palace corridor as
officials await the
arrival of U.S.
Assistant Secretary
of State, Asuncion,
Paraguay, March
20, 2014.
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