화제의 동물들: Animals in the News

Animals in the News

It's time once more for a look into the animal kingdom and our interactions with the countless other species that share our planet. Today's photos include a WiFi-enabled donkey, a wayward badger, Slash holding a koala, and a farewell to Bao Bao, the world's oldest male panda. These images and many others are part of this roundup of animals in the news from recent weeks, seen from the perspectives of their human observers, companions, captors, and caretakers, part of an ongoing series on animals in the news.

Villy, a male snow leopard, in an enclosure at the zoo in Zurich, Switzerland, on July 11, 2012. (Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann) 

American tourist Ella uses an iPad while riding a Wi-Fi-outfitted donkey lead by her brother Aaron, in Kfar Kedem, a biblical reenactment park in the village of Hoshaya in the Galilee, Israel, on August 22, 2012. Visitors riding donkeys through the Old Testament landscape can now also surf the web while being transported across the land of the Bible. Organizers are hoping to connect the younger generation to ancient Galillee life while allowing them to like, share, tweet and snap it instantly to their friends. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) 

Amanda, a female dog, carries one of her five puppies from the flames that destroyed the house where she lived and places them in a fire truck in Temuco, Chile, on August 9, 2012. One of the pups died due to severe injures caused by the fire.(AP Photo/Jose Monsalve, Diario El Austral de La Araucaria) 

An Indian gharial crocodile (Gavialis Gangeticus) in his enclosure at the Troja Zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, on August 5, 2012 .(Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images) 

Motorbike riders jump over a wild cow during a performance at the bullring in the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, on July 12, 2012.(Reuters/Eloy Alonso) 

A penguin swims on Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro, on July 5, 2012. Penguins arrive from the Antarctic Circle on ice floes that melt in the vicinity of Brazil's shore and the birds wash up on Rio beaches every winter. (Reuters/Ricardo Moraes) 

Adam vom Feisastern, a Sphynx cat belonging to German breeder Sabine Braeuer, waits on a jury table during an annual International Pedigree Dog Show with Purebred Cats Show in Erfurt, Germany, on June 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer) 

A firefighter approaches a pile of dead sheep after a forest fire near Darnius, in the northern Spanish province of Girona, on July 23, 2012. Forest fires that broke out on Sunday in Girona, a tourist spot bordering with France in Spain's northern Catalonia region, have killed four people and have burned 32,000 acres. (Reuters/Jordi Ribot) 

Nastia, a six-month-old female bear cub, looks over her shoulder in a private zoo in Haisyn, Vinnitsya region, Ukraine, in this picture taken July 4, 2012. Nastia was rescued by Ukrainian authorities and the Four Paws Animal Welfare Foundation from the private zoo as they thought there might be a risk of her being sold to a circus. According to Dr. Amir Khalil, project manager for Four Paws, Nastia and her mother will be transferred from their temporary home at Lutsk Zoopark to a brown bear sanctuary in Ukraine.(Reuters/Mihai Vasile/Four Paws) 

A herd of endangered Przewalski horses trot across the Takhin Us National Park in the southwest of Mongolia, on July 16, 2012. The Prague Zoo transported four Przewalski horses to Mongolia as part of its efforts to reintroduce the endangered species into its native environment. (Reuters/Petr Josek) 

Zookeeper Don McFarlane, at ZSL London Zoo, weighs and measures an African Millipede during the zoo's annual weigh-in on August 22, 2012 in London, England. The height and mass of every animal in the zoo, of which there are over 16,000, needs to be recorded. The measurements are collated in the Zoological Information Management System, from which zoologists can use the data to compare information on thousands of endangered species. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images) 

A badger that wandered through an open door into a bottled water store in Sparks, Nevada bares its teeth on August 7, 2012. Officials with the Nevada Department of Wildlife and Washoe County animal services officers were able to lure the badger into a cage with cat food. No one was hurt at the Fresca Waterstore, and the animal later was released into the wild on Peavine Mountain north of Reno.(AP Photo/Nevada Department of Wildlife, Aaron Meyer) 

South Korea's Hwang Woojin loses control of his horse during the Show Jumping event of the Modern Pentathlon during the 2012 London Olympics at the Equestrian venue in Greenwich Park, London, on August 11, 2012. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images) 

American musician Slash, holding a koala named Tinkerbell, poses with 72-year-old Australian wildlife warrior Bob Irwin at the launch of the Bob Irwin Wildlife and Conservation Foundation Inc. in Brisbane, Australia, on August 22, 2012. The foundation was formed to provide ongoing support to Bob Irwin, the father of the late crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, in his life long commitment to preserving the planet's wildlife. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard) 

A pair of Asian Black Forest scorpions, Heterometrus longimanus, under ultra-violet light in their glass enclosure at the Night Safari in Singapore, on August 17, 2012. (Reuters/Tim Chong) 

A male wild leopard climbs a net after it fell into a water reservoir tank at a tea estate in Haskhowa near Siliguri, India, on June 20, 2012. The animal was rescued by a Sukna Forest rescue team from the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary. (AP Photo) 

Seven-year-old Dana lies in her bed at the SOLCA hospital as hospital volunteer Veronica Pardo holds her dog Lancelot, an American cocker spaniel, in Quito, Ecuador, on July 25, 2012. Pardo, who owns the dog, says her dogs are used every Wednesday to cheer up the most discouraged of the patients. Hospital workers began to notice that on Wednesdays fewer children had to be kept over because of problems after chemotherapy. Doctors found that youngsters' adrenaline levels rose from being with the dogs, boosting their resistance to chemo's side effects. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa) 

Zookeeper Grant Kother, at ZSL London Zoo, weighs and measures a giant tortoise during the zoo's annual weigh-in on August 22, 2012 in London, England. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images) 

Firefighters use a hydraulic rescue tool to free a dog that got its head stuck in fence, at Luoyang, Henan province, China, on August 21, 2012. (Reuters/Stringer) 

Government dog catchers ensnare a dog on the streets of Taoyuan, northern Taiwan, on May 11, 2012. In an ongoing project, Taiwanese photographer Tou Chih-kang makes portraits of shelter dogs in the final moments of their lives before being put down by lethal injection. Tou has been visiting dog shelters for two years now, making human-like portraits that give a sense of dignity and esteem to some 400 canines, in hopes of educating the public on the proper care of pets. This year Taiwanese authorities will kill an estimated 80,000 stray dogs at 38 pounds scattered throughout the island. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) 

Anori, a five-month-old polar bear, plays in a pool of water at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany, on June 6, 2012.(AP Photo/Sascha Schuermann) 

Wild ponies are herded into the Assateague Channel to for their annual swim to Chincoteague Island, on July 25, 2012 in Chincoteague, Virginia. Every year the wild ponies are rounded up to be auctioned off by the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company.(Mark Wilson/Getty Images) 

An ultrasonic image shows an elephant fetus sized 10.6 cm (4.2 inches) on day 141 of the pregnancy of it's mother Tonga, in Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna, Austria, on April 18, 2012. This is the first worldwide successful insemination of an African elephant using frozen sperm taken from a wild elephant bull in South Africa, the zoo said on August 14, 2012. (Reuters/Tiergarten Schoenbrunn) 

A young girl throws a cat into a flooded street as Tropical storm Helene rains batter the Gulf city of Veracruz, Mexico, on August 18, 2012.(AP Photo/Felix Marquez) 

Israeli researcher Noam Tzvikel holds a bat in a laboratory at Tel Aviv University during an examination of the changes in the its nose structure, which reflect the focus, direction and width of its sonar beam, on July 23, 2012. Israeli researchers aim to reveal the secrets of bats to shed more light on the behavior and cognition of the species. They hope their findings could pave the way for new and improved radar systems and robotic technologies. (Reuters/Nir Elias) 

A horse, a boxer dog and a podenco dog (Andalusian hound) in Marinaleda, Spain, on August 15, 2012. (Reuters/Jon Nazca) 

Mouse, a six-year-old Chihuahua, during the 24th World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California, on June 22, 2012. (Reuters/Stephen Lam) 

An ethnic Uighur child pulls a donkey near Mount Tianshan in Aksu, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, on July 28, 2012.(Reuters/Stringer) 

Meerkats are weighed and measured during the ZSL London Zoo 's annual weigh-in on August 22, 2012 in London, England.(Oli Scarff/Getty Images) 

An Italian Carabinieri policeman falls from his horse during a parade prior to a training session of the Palio race in Siena's main square, on August 15, 2012. (Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi) 

A squirrel is trapped in a manhole cover in Isenhagen, Germany, on August 5, 2012. After they were called by neighbors, police managed to free the animal by using olive oil. (AP Photo/Police Hanover) 

Tori, a 15-year-old orangutan, smokes a cigarette inside her cage at Satwa Taru Jurug zoo in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, on July 6, 2012. Zookeepers said they plan to move Tori, who learned to smoke about a decade ago by imitating people, away from visitors who regularly throw lit cigarettes into her cage so they can watch and photograph her puffing away and exhaling smoke. (AP Photo) 

A cat (lower right) walks through a destroyed neighborhood in war-torn Homs, Syria, on July 14, 2012. (Reuters/Yazen Homsy) 

Wearing a bowtie for the occasion, Blue Joie is held by his owner Ingrid Robinson of New York, as they and others wait for the start of the most expensive wedding for pets in New York, on July 12, 2012. The black-tie fundraiser, where two dogs were "married", was held to benefit the Humane Society of New York. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg) 

Brooklyn-based veterinarian Dr. Elisabetta Coletti, right, tends to the family cat Scrappy Daphne as 2-year-old Leo, left, 6-month-old Andre, and their mother, Carrie Dirks Amodeo, watch during a house call at their home in New York, on August 9, 2012. Coletti, who is part of a growing trend of veterinarians who make house calls, came to give the cat a complete physical and to clip the cat's claws.(AP Photo/Kathy Willens) 

A reveler tries to hold on to a wild horse during the "Rapa Das Bestas" traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo, on July 7, 2012. On the first weekend of the month of July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia. (Reuters/Miguel Vidal) 

Missoula, a young cougar, peers out from behind the legs of a zookeeper in Tierpark Berlin, on may 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Tines) 

Fafa, a lioness that is nearly 18 years old, receives a CT scan at the veterinary clinic in Brasilia, Brazil, on August 7, 2012. Fafa has been living in Brasilia Zoo since birth and had undergone surgery this year to remove both its ovaries and uterus. Fafa was sedated and brought to the veterinary clinic after experiencing seizures and bleeding. According to veterinarian John Nardott Ricardo, the lioness had to undergo a 3-hour-long session of CT scans to its chest, skull and abdomen in order to diagnose the source of its health problems. Nardott believes there is a possibility that Fafa has liver damage, which may have arisen from a cancerous tumor Fafa had in 2010.(Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino) 

Indian villagers move Buddu, a one and a half-year-old sloth bear at Juli Kisan family's home in Lakhapada, India, on August 16, 2012. The wild bear, which was rescued from the family by wildlife officials, wandered into the village while following a herd of goats and had lived with the family ever since. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout) 

A disabled dog named Christmas, during a charity event in Minsk, Belarus, on August 11, 2012. The Public Association for Animal Protection "EGIDA" organized an event to match homeless dogs and cats to prospective new owners in the Belarusian capital on Saturday.(Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko) 

An archival photo of Bao Bao, a panda in the Berlin Zoo. Bao Bao, the world's oldest known male panda, died in the zoo at the age of 34, on August 22, 2012, after a period of declining health. (AP Photo/Johannes Eisele) 

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A bottlenose dolphin leaps for the first time in many months, welcoming spring to Tobermory Bay on the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland


Einstein, the world's smallest stallion, stands next to Playboy the horse in Barnstead, New Hampshire, USA. Standing only 20 inches tall, Einstein will mark his first birthday with a book, 'A Friend for Einstein'


An inquisitive beluga whale ends up with a squashed nose as it tries to get closer to visitors at an aquarium. The curious creature swam straight at the glass when he spotted people watching him from the other side, flattening his nose and chin as he struggled to get a better look. The sight was captured by photographer Nicole Perkins at an aquarium in Connecticut, USA.


A stork flips a fish around in its beak to make it easier to swallow. Bruce Robinson photographed the bird feeding in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge near Cape Canaveral, Florida.


Not quite old enough to have shed the feathers of his youth, the one brown-headed bald eagle stands out among his family. The juvenile bird looks the odd-one-out as he nestles among the group. Photographer Pam Mullins snapped this shot near her home in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada.


Three stork nests are pictured on the church tower in Kandern-Holzen, Germany


These are two of the seven dingo puppies born at Featherdale Wildlife Park in Sydney. The six girls and one boy born at a NSW wildlife park are almost ready to meet the public after learning the ropes from dad Ernie and mum Tia


Young elephant 'Nelly' kicks a football during an event to predict the result of the upcoming Women's World Cup soccer match between Germany and Canada, at the safari-park in Hodenhagen, Lower-Saxony June 24, 2011. The 'elephant oracle' announced a German victory by 1-0


An elephant distributes a pamphlet to a Thai woman during a promotional event for the general election in Auytthaya province in Auytthaya province, 70 km (44 miles) north of Bangkok June 21, 2011. Thais will go to the polls on July 3 for a general election


These amorous wood pigeons share a tender moment as one gives the other a peck on the beak. The love birds have an involved mating ritual, and the male even slaps the female about the head and body with his wings. Wildlife photographer Colin Varndell snapped the pair at Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetland Trust in Gloucestershire.




This goose-stepping owl was photograraphed by photographer Austin Thomas near Formby, Lancashire. 'It's quite unusual to see an owl walking along the ground like this,' he explained. 'He would often fly from his nest and perch on a nearby barn where he would look for insects and worms in the grass to feed to his young.'


Two rival male lions fight over a female in front a group of tourists travelling in the Masai Mara national park in Kenya. Photographer Olga Kirillova captured the drama on camera. 


The picture was taken at the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna by Romashchenko Elena, a maths teacher. She said: "I noticed how a little monkey was sat on the goat's back and was surprised the goat wasn't annoyed. The monkey started looking through the goat's fur with its hands. I presume it was eating any sort of ticks or fleas. Perhaps that's why the goat was happy to have the monkey on its back."


Amateur photographer Vedran Vidak has captured the fighting stallions of the Cincar mountains in Bosnia. They spend the winters hidden in the mountain valleys only reappearing again in the spring to fight for ascendancy on the grassy plains. Vedran has spent days tracking the beautiful stallions over the last few years to photograph them fighting for control of the herd.


Spring has sprung: John the baby goat makes friends with Charlie the chick at Reddish ValeSchool Farm near Stockport


This newborn chick, who is just a few weeks old, has apparently struck up an unlikely friendship with a kitten who helps protect her from pesky vermin. Sergey Dmitriev, from Barnaul, Russia, said: "We want to help restore the ancient Pavlovskaya hens because they are a very rare breed. Sometimes they can get attacked by rats and mice who get into the coops and kill them. We usually have to protect them like they are our own children - but recently our pet cat Mikeal has protected them for us. He will follow them everywhere they go whenever we let them out to make sure they are safe." 


Alison MacLean of the Edinburgh Zoo meets a young Giant Panda at the Bifengxia Panda Centre near the city of Ya'an in Sichuan Province, China. A breeding pair of pandas, Tian Tian and Yang Guang, are being loaned to Edinburgh Zoo in an historic agreement between the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and the Chinese Wildlife Conservation Society. The breeding pair will be the first Giant Pandas in the UK for 17 years and Alison will be their keeper. It is hoped that the pair will mate during the ten years they spend at Edinburgh. If they mate successfully, the cub will be returned to China once it reaches two years old. The panda in this picture is about 18 months old. Tian Tian translates as 'Sweet Honey' and Yang Guang as 'Sunshine'. 


An elephant rears up on her hind legs to pluck some fruit from a tall tree. British photographer Stephen Blake captured the scene in Zambia.


An employee bottle-feeds a one-week-old meerkat cub at the Royev Ruchey zoo in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The cub is one of a litter of three being hand-reared after they were rejected by their mother.