Animals in News

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A mule does a terrifying high dive into a tank of water in the name of entertainment. The animals have been trained to jump from a 22ft high platform into the 6ft deep vat of water. Billed as the world's only high-diving mule show, it is the climax of a rodeo that draws up to 300 people at at time in the tiny ranch town of Pipe Creek, near San Antonio, Texas. Animal rights campaigners have heavily criticised the show

A Somali boy carries a sword fish on his head to take to the market in Mogadishu

A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaches in Frederick Sound, Alaska

Rare Australian Big-Belly seahorses born at Blue Reef Aquarium, Newquay, Britain

California sea lion Doro nuzzles her two-month-old baby Gina in their enclosure at Berlin Zoo

A diver wearing a suit commonly used 100 years ago is confronted by a shark as he takes a walk through the 2.2 million litre Oceanarium tank at the Melbourne Aquarium

A baby elephant plays in an enclosure at the Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna, Austria. The public have named him 'Tuluba', a word from the language of the western African Wolof people meaning 'Big Ears'

A park ranger carries orphaned female mountain gorillas Ndeze and Ndakasi at a protected location at Rumungabo in Virunga National Park just north of the eastern Congolese city of Goma

Zookeepers were celebrating after one of the rarest monkeys in the world gave birth to twins. These two golden lion tamarins were born three weeks ago at Bristol Zoo Gardens

Two baby ligers - hybrids of a lion and a tigress - are seen at Taiwan's "World Snake King Education Farm" in Kuijen, Tainan county

Mohan, top, chews on the ear of his brother Majestic at Siegfried Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat on the grounds of the Mirage Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The white tiger cubs were born June 22

One month-old cheetah cubs, Sanne (left) and Itjane, are from the first litter of Northern cheetah ever born in the UK at Whipsnade Zoo in Dunstable, Bedfordshire

White-striped tiger cubs 'Majestic' and 'Mohan' play on a stuffed life-sized tiger at Siegfried Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat in Las Vegas

This 10-week-old baby hedgehog is recovering at St Tiggywinkles hospital in Bucks after he was found in Ruislip, Middlesex, last Sunday with three broken legs. It's believed the tiny animal, named Trifle by staff, may have been attacked by a dog in a back garden​

 

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'Alex' the vulture is encouraged to fly by falconer Anna Keen at Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park in Stirlingshire. Alex is recovering from an operation on his foot

A rescued eagle owl in the northern Indian city of Jammu

Chief Wildlife Ranger Mick Douch holds a Pipistrelle bat from a bat box in Dalby Forest North Yorkshire. The Forestry Commission is mounting a survey to check over 200 bat boxes in its woodlands in North Yorkshire in a mission to map the species living locally

Giant guinea pig- 'Caplin Rous', is the most famous capybara in the world- he has a Twitter following of 3,377! Three year old Caplin Rous is as house trained as a dog and even manages to stand on his hind legs for owner Melanie Typaldos in Buda, Texas

Abyssinian cat Kiki and giant schnauzer Tami investigate each other at a pet show at the Leipzig fairground, Germany

First dog 'Bo' runs up the stairs of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland

A German shepherd dog leaps into the air to bite a water balloon thrown her way while playing on a hot summer day in Encinitas, California.

A bull with flaming horns runs during Toro Embolao in Amposta, Spain

Two golden-mantled ground squirrels square up for a tussle in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming​