Animal News
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AP - Fri Oct 21, 2:56 PM ET
This photo released by the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo shows the Zoo's giant panda mother Mei Xiang checking her cub, Tai Shan, after his ninth physical exam Friday, Oct. 21, 2005. The cub, born on July 9, now weighs 14.1 pounds and is 27.1 inches long. The National Zoo's three giant pandas live at the Zoo's Fujifilm Giant Panda Habitat. (AP Photo/Jessie Cohen, Smithsonian Institution) -
AFP/NPS-HO - Wed Oct 5, 2:34 PM ET
This photo released 05 October 2005 by the National Park Service(NPS) shows the carcass of an alligator as it protudes out to the right from the curved body of a dead Burmese python in Everglades National Park, Florida.(AFP/NPS-HO/Michael Barron) -
AFP - Sun Oct 30, 8:20 PM ET
Ostrich mouth : An ostrich opens its mouth at a private poutry farm off near the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, as fears over a possible bird flu outbreak intensifies after eight pet birds smuggled from China tested positive for the deadly H5N1 virus. (AFP/Patrick Lin) -
AP - Sun Oct 30, 7:44 PM ET
Kutchani, a female lion plays with a pumpkin with a Halloween face carved on it at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. The zoo's Behavioral Biologist Margaret Hawkins carved the pumpkins under a program to introduce new foods and scents to exhibits to stimulate the animals. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) -
AP - Fri Oct 28, 2:50 PM ET
In this photo provided by SeaWorld San Diego Charly, a 1,060 pound polar bear, gets into the Halloween spirit and uses his weight to crush an ice and treat filled pumpkin in his arctic-themed exhibit at SeaWorld San Diego on Friday, Oct 28, 2005, in San Diego. (AP Photo/SeaWorld San Diego, Mike Aguilera) -
AP - Sun Oct 30, 7:07 PM ET
Johari, a young male lion, plays with a pumpkin with a Halloween face carved on it at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. The zoo's Behavioral Biologist Margaret Hawkins carved the pumpkins under a program to introduce new foods and scents to exhibits to stimulate the animals. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) -
AFP - Mon Oct 31, 3:50 PM ET
Study of a pumpkin : Chimpanzees inspect a hand-carved Halloween pumpkin which was part of a special breakfast surprise at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. (AFP/Greg Wood) -
AFP - Mon Oct 31, 3:56 PM ET
High-perched : A cat sits on a high branch of an apple tree in a garden of a home in the northern Slovak town of Liptovsky Mikulas. (AFP/Joe Klamar) -
AFP - Sun Oct 9, 7:53 PM ET
Seriously... : Serious Black, an Exotic Shorthair, models a Halloween outfit during the 3rd Annual Cat Fanciers Association-IAMS Cat Championship at Madison Square Garden in New York . (AFP/Timothy A. Clary) -
AP - Mon Oct 31, 6:46 AM ET
A dog Sia, lies on the floor during a Halloween dog contest in Bangkok Monday Oct. 31 ,2005. Fifty dogs joined the contest.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) -
AP - Sun Oct 30, 7:42 PM ET
Chimpanzee play with a pumpkin with a Halloween face carved on it at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. The zoo's Behavioral Biologist Margaret Hawkins carved the pumpkins under a program to introduce new foods and scents to exhibits to stimulate the animals. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) -
AP - Sun Oct 30, 7:06 PM ET
Asalai, a two-year-old female lion, carries a pumpkin with a Halloween face carved on it at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. The zoo's Behavioral Biologist Margaret Hawkins carved the pumpkins under a program to introduce new foods and scents to exhibits to stimulate the animals. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) -
AP - Sat Oct 22, 7:11 PM ET
Otis, a bulldog, runs through the pumpkin patch at Muzzi's Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze in San Gregorio, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005. Otis ws visiting the pumpkin patch with his owner Christopher Burke of San Francisco. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan) -
Reuters - Wed Oct 26, 8:41 AM ET
Two birds play in a park in Xiangfan city, in China's Hubei province, October 26, 2005. While China has been praised for prompt reporting to international agriculture and health organizations, its media has been mostly silent, showing limits to its transparency that could affect efforts to curb the disease. (Stringer/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Oct 27, 4:11 PM ET
The San Diego Zoo's 12-week-old giant panda cub is photographed during her weekly health examination October 26, 2005. The unnamed female cub now has three incisors visible, weighing 7.98 pounds (3.6 kg) and measuring two feet (0.6 metres) from her nose to the tip of her tail. (Ken Bohn/Zoological Society of San Diego/Handout/Reuters) -
AP - Sun Oct 30, 7:21 PM ET
Ayoung male lion plays with a pumpkin with a Halloween face carved on it at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. The zoo's Behavioral Biologist Margaret Hawkins carved the pumpkins under a program to introduce new foods and scents to exhibits to stimulate the animals. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) -
AFP - Mon Oct 17, 3:29 PM ET
LioN cubs rest in a trailer of Humberto circus in the small town of Senec located on western Slovakia's lakes. Six lion cubs have been born in less than a week at the Czech circus(AFP) -
Reuters - Fri Oct 28, 9:30 PM ET
A Western Rueppell's vulture looks for the goodies inside a Halloween pumpkin at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park October 28, 2005. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Tammy Spratt/San Diego Wild Animal Park -
AP - Fri Nov 4, 2:43 PM ET
Kedar, a baby African elephant born Oct. 18, makes a face as he struggles to regain his footing, keep close to his mother Kubwa, a 29-year-old African elephant at the Indianapolis Zoo, Friday, Nov. 4, 2005. Kedar will be on exhibit, weather permitting, from 1-2 pm through Nov. 6. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)