Funny animals of 2013 - in pictures

Singing in the rain: this ingenious little tree frog uses a leaf as an umbrella in Jember, East Java Photograph: Penkdix Palme /Newsteam

Buzz off: a kodiak bear is pestered by a bee at Buffalo zoo, New York Photograph: Terry Cervi/Caters News Agency

Spring-loaded: a red squirrel leaps between trees in the Yorkshire Dales Photograph: Simon Dale/HotSpot Media

'We all staaaand together': Mudskippers indulge in their own frog chorus in Krabi, Thailand Photograph: Daniel Trim/Rex Features

Jan the meerkat plays with Harvey the peacock at Okambara Lodge in Okambara, Namibia Photograph: Barcroft Media

Karis, a lion cub, plays in fallen leaves brushed up by keepers at Blair Drummond safari park, Scotland Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

A male southern elephant seal has a good old laugh at Gold Harbour, South Georgia Photograph: Justin Hofman/Barcroft Media

A puffin drops its lunch as a gull swoops on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast, England Photograph: Nigel Roddis/Reuters

Is it coming or going? A Komondor, the traditional Hungarian guard dog, shakes its long fur in Bodony, Hungary Photograph: Laszlo Balogh/Reuters

Coyote karaoke: a coyote teaches its pups to howl at a wildlife preserve in Hinckley, Minnesota Photograph: Debbie DiCarlo/Rex Features

"Hmmmm": a long-tailed macaque pauses for thought at River Safari in Singapore Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP

Stealing the show: Bailey Bear, a Golden Labradoodle, sits in front of a giant poster of a cat during the first day of the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

Humour or hayfever? Dormouse in Italy Photograph: Andrea Zampatti/HotSpot Media

A pair of harbour seals wearing satellite-linked transmitters on their heads in the waters of Howe Sound in Porteau Cove, British Columbia Photograph: Andy Clark/Reuters

Dachshunds sit in their positions for the performance installation Dachshund UN, where the dogs were used to mimic a United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting Photograph: Michelle Siu/AP

A remarkably patient emerald dove is weighed in a mug during the annual bird health check at Chester Zoo Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

'Are you talking to me?' An ostrich does its best Robert De Niro impression at the Tiergarten in Nuremberg, Germany Photograph: Daniel Karmann/Corbis

Stick in the mud: a tortoise has a tricky journey in south Lebanon Photograph: Ali Hashisho/Reuters

A Malian donkey sports a skull chain as it walks in Gao Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP

Kamchatka brown bears play catch at Hagenbeck Zoo, Hamburg, Germany Photograph: Action Press/Rex Features

Seal with a kiss: Grey seals play underwater by the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast Photograph: Nigel Roddis/Reuters

The little one said roll over: a breeder puts a giant panda cub into a crib at Chengdu research base of giant panda breeding in Chengdu Photograph: China Daily/Reuters

Get on board: Shane Willmott who lives on Australia's Gold Coast has trained his pet mice to ride skateboards. He decided to teach them to skateboard because it was too cold in winter to take them to the beach to surf Photograph: Tim Marsden/Newspix/Rex Featur

Three two-month-old Oriental Pied Hornbills at the Jurong bird park's breeding and research centre in Singapore Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP

One giant leap: a frog is captured during a lift off of Nasa's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) from Nasa's Wallops flight facility in Virginia Photograph: NASA/Reuters