Surprising Images of Animals in the News

1. Azalea, a 19-year-old female chimpanzee
whose Korean name is "Dallae," smokes a
cigarette at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang,
North Korea, on October 19, 2016. According
to officials at the newly renovated zoo, the
chimpanzee smokes about a pack a day. They
insist, however, that she doesn’t inhale.
Wong Maye-E / AP

2. A polar bear in an aquarium exhibit at the
Grandview mall in Guangzhou, Guangdong
province, China, on July 27, 2016. Reuters

3. The head of a rat pokes through a hole in the bottom
of a garbage can, where it became stuck, in Brooklyn,
New York, on October 18, 2016. A paramedic on the
scene was able to free the rat. Lucas Jackson / Reuters

4. Cattle graze in the Cotswolds, near Stroud, in Britain, on October 12, 2016. Toby Melville / Reuters

5. Peoria Fire-Medical E192 firefighter Todd Childress pulls a
stranded dog out of a canal on August 5, 2016, with the help of a
ladder in Peoria, Arizona, The dog, which had previously been
very difficult to round up, ran right to the firefighter who was
able to get him into the waiting net of Animal Control officer.
Capt. Justin Gorospe / Peoria Fire-Medical Department via AP

6. A male baby elephant looks out of his enclosure in
Halle, Germany, on August 5, 2016. The elephant
was born on August 3, 2016. Jens Meyer / AP

7. Freelance photographer Noah Berger rescues a
goat while on assignment for the San Francisco
Chronicle as flames envelop a property off of
Bonham Road near Lower Lake, California, on
August 14, 2016. Josh Edelson / AP

8. A flock of starlings flies over the Lavaux on an
autumn morning near Grandvaux, Switzerland, on
October 20, 2016. Denis Balibouse / Reuters

9. A dog named La China. "The loving but fearful
dog did not like to leave the space where she
slept, even to eat," said Maria Silva who takes
care of dogs at the shelter. La China died the
week after the photo was taken. Photographed
at the Famproa dog shelter in Los Teques on
August 16, 2016. Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters

10. Ben Schine, 22,
returns from
Charlotte to
retrieve his bunnies
that were not able
to fit in his car
during the initial
evacuation in
Greenville, North
Carolina, on
October 11, 2016.
Nicole Craine /
Reuters

11. Egrets rest on a tree in Jingning She, east China. Photograph: Xinhua/Barcroft Images

12. A squirrel runs during the 9th round of FootGolf Italian
Championship at Castel d'Aviano Golf Club on September 24,
2016 in Aviano, Italy. Andrea Spinelli / Corbis via Getty

13. A man watches buffaloes cross a river as they head
to another grazing area, in Nanchong, Sichuan
province, China, on August 10, 2016. Reuters

14. Sea turtles find their way to the ocean after being released by a
group of local tourists visiting a conservation centre in
Pariaman, West Sumatra. Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images

15. A detainee looks out of a
prison cell in a compound of
the Lukyanivska detention
center in Kiev, Ukraine, on
July 19, 2016. Valentyn
Ogirenko / Reuters

16. Two men rescue a dog from floodwaters on
Martin Luther King Blvd. on October 12, 2016 in
Lumberton, North Carolina. Sean Rayford / Getty

17. A whale shark accompanied by pilot fish and remora
in the Azores. Humanity is driving an unprecedented
extinction of marine life, with the biggest species
being pushed to the brink, scientists have said. Nuno
Sa/NPL/Alamy Stock Photo

18. A pangolin carries its baby at a Bali zoo in Bali, Indonesia.
Although a global wildlife summit banned all trade of the
pangolin in September, doubts remain whether that will stop the
illegal traffic of pangolins in Africa fueled by a growing demand
from Asian consumers, particularly Chinese. Firdia Lisnawati / AP

19. A animal control official uses a blowpipe to shoot a dog
with a tranquilizer dart in central Yangon, Burma, on
October 6, 2016. Burma's largest city is capturing some of
its tens of thousands of stray dogs to neuter and
vaccinate them to combat rabies. Thein Zaw / AP

21. About 23 giant pandas born in 2016 on display
at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda
Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China,
on September 29, 2016. Reuters

22. A member of Coruche forcados group lies on the ground
after he was tossed by a bull during a bullfight at Campo
Pequeno bullring in Lisbon, Portugal, on October 13,
2016. Rafael Marchante / Reuters

23. Seth Brockton of Wheatland, Texas, competes in the steer
wrestling event during the Calgary Stampede in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, on July 8, 2016. Todd Korol / Reuters

24. A digger tries to free two adult elephants and a baby
elephant, which became trapped after falling into a
reservoir when drinking water at a farm in Xishuangbanna,
Yunnan province, China. The three wild Asian elephants
were trapped for more than two days until they were saved
in a rescue operation involving helicopters and firecrackers
on October 12, 2016. AFP / Getty

25. A caged Javan slow loris, saved
from illegal smugglers in North
Sumatra, Indonesia. Albert
Damanik/Barcroft Images

26. A dog jumps into a pool during the Flying Dogs
competition in Kamnik, Slovenia, on September
10, 2016. Srdjan Zivulovic / Reuters

27. A common heron feeds in coastal thickets in the
town of Rakov, some 45 kilometers northwest of
Minsk, Belarus, on October 4, 2016. Sergei Grits / AP

28. Motola, an elephant that
was injured by a landmine,
wears her prosthetic leg at
the Friends of the Asian
Elephant Foundation in
Lampang, Thailand, on
June 29, 2016. Athit
Perawongmetha / Reuters

29. A Thomson’s gazelle fawn looks shaken
after surviving the treacherous crossing of
the crocodile infested Mara river in the
Mara Triangle, Kenya. Photograph:
safariLIVE/Barcroft Images

30. Dead fish float over West lake, Hanoi, Vietnam, where
hundreds of kilograms of dead fish have been found
over the last few days. Fishermen and activists claim
discharged pollutants in the water are poisoning
marine life. Photograph: Minh Hoang/EPA

31. Activist Noga Shanee
holds a baby saddle-
backed tamarin while an
infant pygmy marmoset
is on her shoulder. The
animals were both
illegally for sale in Belén
market, Peru

32. A stray dog and a puppy peer from
behind a fence in Bucharest,
Romania, on October 20, 2016. The
stray dog population of the
Romanian capital numbers above 60
thousand, according to city hall
sources. Andreea Alexandru / AP

33. A pelican caught in a fishing net on one of Bulgaria’s biggest lakes, Burgas. Photograph: Clifford Norton/Alamy

34. An ornithologist from the Czech Society For Ornithology, measures a migrating bird
in the Jizera mountains as part of a programme to monitor long-term population
and global migration patterns. Photograph: Matej Divizna/Getty Images

35. A vet from Saving the Survivors and crew from
anti-poaching NGO Rhino911 attend to a wounded
rhino in Pilanesberg national park, South Africa.
Photograph: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images

36. A hummingbird flies in the sanctuary "El Paraiso
de los Colibries" near Cali, Colombia, on July 28,
2016. Jaime Saldarriaga / Reuters

37. An endangered Iberian lynx is released as part of a project to recover the species in Doñana reserve, southern Spain. The national park could become the first in the EU to be listed as a Unesco world heritage site ‘in
danger’ Marcelo Del Pozo/Reuters

38. Illegally traded slow lorises rescued by police in Jakarta, Indonesia. Photograph: Jefta Images / Barcroft Images

39. A giraffe looks out towards the Sydney Opera House from it's
enclosure at Taronga Zoo on October 5, 2016. The Zoo was
celebrating its 100th birthday. William West / AFP / Getty

40. A chicken runs in front of a coop that burns with
animals still inside (not pictured) at the Bluecut
Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest in San
Bernardino County, California, on August 16, 2016.
Gene Blevins / Reuters

41. A five-month-old baby female Bornean orangutan
(Pongo pygmaeus) sits on her mother Sulli at Bioparc
Fuengirola in Fuengirola, near Malaga, Spain, on
September 12, 2016. Jon Nazca / Reuters

42. A man uses a scissors to make intricate decorative patterns
on a camel's back before displaying it for sale at a makeshift
cattle market ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Karachi,
Pakistan, on September 9, 2016. Akhtar Soomro / Reuters

43. A dog named "Charly" rests in the arms of his owner after
both took part in a run in Madrid on October 16, 2016.
About 3,500 dogs of all breeds and sizes with purple
bandannas around their necks marched the streets of
Madrid with their owners in tow in the fifth edition of the
"perroton," or Dogathon, a yearly event that seeks to
raise awareness about animal cruelty and the importance
of dog adoptions. Francisco Seco / AP

44. A koala soaked by floodwaters
sits on a fence post to escape the
deluge in the town of Stirling in
the Adelaide Hills of South
Australia. Russell Latter/Reuters

45. A wildebeest herd during the annual migration in the Masai Mara. : Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images

46. A male deer at dawn during the annual
deer rutting season at Richmond Park
in London, England, on October 9,
2016. Toby Melville / Reuters

47. Budgies feed on seeds from a
local visitor's hands at Ocean
Park in metro Manila, Philippines,
on September 10, 2016. Romeo
Ranoco / Reuters

48. A traditional Hungarian horseman rides as the sun
sets on the Great Hungarian Plain in Hortobagy,
Hungary, on June 29, 2016. Laszlo Balogh / Reuters
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