Animals in the News

The first release of news about animals this year. You will see a dog driving a car, luminous angelfish flying horses, jumping into the water pigs in China and much more.

(37 photos total)

 

1. Nurse Annabel keeps 55-day baby echidna Bo Taronga Zoo in Sydney, 1 November 2012. He was found on the footpath to the north of Sydney. Within six months, Bo will be fed by hand. (Reuters / Tim Wimborne)

2. Opening the humpback whale for research on the island of Texel, The Netherlands, December 18, 2012. A humpback whale was thrown ashore in Wadden Sea, and all efforts to save it were unsuccessful. (Catrinus Van Der Veen / AFP / Getty Images)

3. Dogo Ndiaye stroking his sheep General Papis during the regional finals of the competition Har Bii in Dakar, Senegal, October 6, 2012. In Senegal, where the sheep are given names, and keep them as pets, a very popular television show "Har Bille", which literally translated from the language of Wolof means "This is a sheep." The show is made in the American style and is aimed at finding the most perfect sheep in Senegal. (AP Photo / Rebecca Blackwell)

4. Elk looking for food in the forest in Banff National Park near Lake Louise, Alberta, November 23, 2012. (Reuters / Andy Clark)

5. One-month calf pudu grazing on artificial meadow at the University of Concepcion, south of Santiago, Chile, November 12, 2012. He was found in the woods near Concepcion. Pudu are the smallest deer in the world and live exclusively in southern Chile and parts of Argentina. Animals are currently endangered.(Reuters / Jose Luis Saavedra)

6. Gorilla Colo celebrates his 56th birthday at the zoo in Columbus, Ohio, December 22, 2012. Colo is the oldest gorilla in the world. She was born at the zoo in Columbus in 1956. (AP Photo / Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Grahm S. Jones)

7. A stray dog ​​crosses almost empty road in Bucharest, Romania, December 26, 2012. (AP Photo / Vadim Ghirda)

8. Cut image from video provided by the international animal welfare advocates, in London, 23 November 2012. British circus owner Bobby Roberts received a suspended sentence for causing unnecessary suffering Asian elephant by his imprisonment in the circuit and permit the trainer to beat him. Secret film beating, provided a group of international animal rights groups, were the main evidence for the prosecution. (Reuters / Animal Defenders International)

9. Tomato frog sits in his cage during the inventory of animals at the zoo Hagenbeck in Hamburg, Germany, 27 December 2012. (Christian Charisius / AFP / Getty Images)

10. Deer roars into wildlife park in auras, near Kitzbuhel, Austrian province of Tyrol, October 11, 2012. (AP Photo / Kerstin Joensson)

11. Puppy lying next to the dead body of his mother, who was killed a few days ago during the outbreak of violence in Kyaukpyu, Myanmar, November 5, 2012. (Reuters / Minzayar)

12. A man looks for an invention entitled «Fly Tweet» (Flying tweet) David Bowen during a press conference at the Festival of Digital Arts in Taipei, Nov. 15, 2012. The invention consists of a keyboard connected to the computer, will publish what type flies, in Twitter. (Reuters / Pichi Chuang)

13. Susan Gell forwarded with his horse through the Shoshone Loch Lomond in Lasse, Scotland, September 19, 2012. Susan lives on the island Inchtavannaich at Loch Lomond and regularly crosses it with his horses for their physical development during the voyage. Loch Lomond with about 30 islands, is the largest freshwater lake in Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images)

14. Indian villagers flee from the herd of wild elephants in the country Kurkuriya near Digaru, about 45 km from Guwahati, 22 December 2012. More than 20 wild elephants from the nearby reserve Amchang broke into a farm near the village in search of food. (Biju Boro / AFP / Getty Images)

15. Farmed fish glowing angels at the Taiwan International Exhibition of aquarium fish in Taipei, Nov. 7, 2012. Pink fluorescent angelfish have been bred in a joint project of the Academy of Sciences of Taiwan, National Taiwan University of Oceanology and private biotech company Yan Lin. (Reuters / Pichi Chuang)

16. Baboon yawns in his enclosure at the zoo Hellabrunn in Munich, November 19, 2012. (Reuters / Michael Dalder)

17. Cody Mooney of Loveland, Colorado, throws his daughter Willow on the background of the flying snow geese in the Skagit Valley, near La Conner, Washington, December 27, 2012. Tens of thousands of snow geese in late November migrate from Alaska and Siberia in the Skagit Valley and other areas in northwest Washington, to spend the winter. (AP Photo / Elaine Thompson)

18. Head chimpanzees in the Zoological Museum Grant in London, England, September 4, 2012. The museum has a total of about 67,000 specimens. He is the only one of its kind in London. It all started in 1828 as a training collection. Only in the museum displays only about 5 percent of all available samples. (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)

19. Free Syrian Army soldier plays with a cat in the Khan al-Assal, 10 November 2012. (Reuters / Zain Karam)

20. Giant eyeball mysterious sea creature, October 10, 2012. It was swept ashore and found a man on the beach in Pompano Beach, Florida. Later eyeball was sent to the Research Institute of Fish and Wildlife in St. Petersburg and is identified as the eyeball swordfish. Probably, the fisherman cut it and threw it into the sea. (AP Photo / Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Carli Segelson)

21. Pigs dive into the water in the county of Ningxia, Hunan Province, China, November 15, 2012. Farmer Juan Demin makes his pigs to dive into the water with a 3-meter platform at least once a day. He believes that these exercises improve the quality and taste of the meat. Later Demin going to sell their pigs for meat triple price. (Reuters / Stringer)

22. Western lowland gorilla Kizhivu holds a two-day baby at the zoo in Prague, December 24, 2012. (Michal Cizek / AFP / Getty Images)

23. Newborn alpaca named Gypsy at the zoo in Magdeburg, Germany. (AP Photo / Jens Schlueter)

24. 5-month-old North American puma Ice playing in the snow at the zoo Swarms creek in the suburb of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, November 20, 2012.(Reuters / Ilya Naymushin)

25. John Plains holds soup shark on board Ocean Sunset in the Pacific Ocean near Ucluelet, British Columbia, June 24, 2012. Ocean Sunset is a commercial fishing vessel, which specializes in catching sharks and other fish. Sharks caught are sent to the plant to remove the edges and remove the skins. Stomachs are exported to Germany for pubs, fins are sent to Asia. Shark fin soup is a delicacy in Chinese culture. Animal lovers extremely outraged by such activities, but the Chinese claim that it is their ancient cultural tradition. (Reuters / Ben Nelms)

26. Sumatran orangutan tsunami with equipment to track eye movements in the National Zoo of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, December 8, 2012. A team from the University of Nottingham in Malaysia, led by neurologist Neil Manny has over 18 months are studying eye movement 7 years orangutan to identify some of the mysteries of the human brain. (Reuters / Bazuki Muhammad)

27. The buyer sees the colt in the complex Magic Millions on the Gold Coast, Australia, October 30, 2012. (Reuters / Tim Wimborne)

28. Dog named Porter, owned SPCA New Zealand, at the wheel of a modified Mini Countryman at the race track in Auckland, 10 December 2012.Representatives of the SPCA said they trained three dogs to drive a car through a series of special events. (Reuters / SPCA / Michael Bradley)

29. Zac Brown herder feeding deer in Aviemore, Scotland, Dec. 22, 2012. (Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images)

30. Dog growls at passers-by in the village Rtan, Serbia, on 21 December 2012. Pyramidal mountain in Serbia, which, according to many people, is a source of unusual electromagnetic waves that can protect it from the global catastrophe, has attracted a record number of visitors here before the day of the apocalypse on the Mayan calendar. (Andrej Isakovic / AFP / Getty Images)

31. Capybara passes caiman crocodile in Hato La Aurora province of Casanare, Colombia, Dec. 15, 2012. Private Reserve Hato La Aurora has an area of ​​17,000 hectares and is home to 350 species of birds, hundreds of wild animals, including tigers and pumas, and thousands of turtles. (Reuters / Jose Miguel Gomez)

32. Police dog attacks a man caught stealing in the house of ethnic Somalis, the second day of the shootings in the Eastleigh area of ​​Nairobi, Kenya, 19 November 2012. Police fired tear gas to disperse the Kenyans, who in turn threw stones and broke into houses and shops of ethnic Somalis living in Eastleigh. (Reuters / Thomas Mukoya)

33. Tourists ride on an elephant by one-horned Indian rhinoceros in the early morning at Kaziranga National Park, India, December 3, 2012. (AP Photo / Denis Gray)

34. Domestic rabbits injected prior to the CT scan at the Medical Center of animals in New York, December 12, 2012. Nonprofit Medical Center, founded in 1910, has at its disposal 80 veterinarians who specialize in 17 different directions. In the center to receive medical care 40,000 animals a year. Customers from all over the world bring their pets to the veterinary hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, home of the only high-tech treatment. According to estimates of the American Association of products for pets, Americans spent more than $ 50 billion on their pets for the year 2012, including about $ 14 billion on veterinary care. (John Moore / Getty Images)

35. Lumberman Simon Lenihan with 15-year-old Belgian Ardennes horse Sultan de la Campagne in Balmoral, Scotland, Dec. 11, 2012. The Prince of Wales is a patron of the Association of British loggers who use horses in their work instead of huge machines, to minimize damage to the environment. (Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images)

36. Norfolk black turkey in a forest near a farm in Hardelot, southern England, 12 December 2012. (Reuters / Stefan Wermuth)

37. The two-year study monkey riding a bicycle in the village in Suzhou, Anhui Province, China, October 31, 2012. Thousands of animals have been bred and trained circus Suchzhok groups, which number more than 300. Circus employs more than 10,000 residents, and is officially recognized 100 years of local cultural heritage. Circus groups with trained animals travel and perform all over China. Wild and newborn animals are trained only in Suzhou. (Reuters / Stringer)