A visitor looks through a glass panel as an Indian gharial swims in his basin in the Prague Zoo in Prague, Czech Republi

2. A visitor looks through a glass panel as an Indian gharial swims in his basin in the Prague Zoo in Prague, Czech Republic.

3. A baby giraffe kisses its mother in the Hanover Zoo in northern Germany.

4. Balu, a Labrador retriever, shakes the water from his coat after taking a bath in a pond in Berlin.

5. A baby frilled-neck lizard feeds on a mini cricket in Sydney, Australia.

6. A gray-bellied night monkey peeks through a hole in the El Nispero Zoo in El Valle de Anton, Panama.

7. Tiny doctor fish clean a Japanese woman's skin for aesthetic benefits at a spa in Tokyo's upscale Ginza shopping district.

8. South Korean bulls Gaesomun, left, and Lion wrestle during the 2008 Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea. (Lion won.)

9. Polar bear cub Flocke tries to open a bag with food in her enclosure at the Nuremberg Zoo in Germany.

10. Bullseye, a bull terrier and the mascot for Target, arrives at the red carpet of the Billboard Latin Music Awards in Hollywood, Fla.

11. A red-tailed hawk soars over Fenway Park with a rodent in its beak during an Opening Day baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers in Boston.

12. Liya, a female tapir, is fed before being released by the staff of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks in Malaysia's Sungai Dusun Wildlife Reserve.

13. A female lion carries her newborn cub at the Ghamadan Zoo, near Amman, Jordan.

14. A butterfly sits on a tree branch on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus,as temperatures hit 55 degrees.

15. At Thailands Sriracha Tiger Zoo, a Royal Bengal tigress rests with three of the six piglets she is raising. The piglets are dressed in tiger costumes to resemble her own offspring. Her real cubs are being nursed by a pig; the zoo has been breeding tigers this way since 1997, believing pigs milk speeds tiger cubs growth rates.

16. A bear peeks out of a cage at Tam Dao National Park in Vinh Phuc, Vietnam.

17. A dog carries its owner's bag and tools in Chongqing, China.

18. Buddy, a 6-week-old fox cub, is cared for at the Animal Wildlife Aid Centre in Leatherhead, England, after his mother abandoned him.

19. Trudi, a dachshund, runs in a dog race in Itzehoe, Germany.