Sipadan, Malaysia: A scuba diver approaches a swirling school of giant barracudaPhotograph: David Loh/ReutersBerlin, Germany: In December, Berlin Zoo revealed its newest addition - a baby hippopotamus born on 29 NovemberPhotograph: Michael Kappeler/AFP/Getty ImagesCaceres, Spain: Storks in their nests on prefabricated postsPhotograph: Jorge Rey/EPA
Tokyo, Japan: Sea angels swim in the water of a tank at Shinagawa Aquarium. The animals live in cold ocean currents around the north pole and can also be found near the north eastern coast of HokkaidoPhotograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPALeipzig, Germany: A flamingo puts his head under his feathers at the zooPhotograph: Jan Woitas/EPALondon, UK: A red stag stands in the evening light in Richmond ParkPhotograph: Dan Kitwood/GettyTianjin, China: Fish fight for food dispearsed over the water from an automatic feeding machine in a pond outside the Tianjin Olympic Centre StadiumPhotograph: Nic Bothma/EPACalcutta, India: Different species of wild birds are displayed for sale in a local market. India is home to some 1,200 different species of birds. Despite measures banning the capture and trade of wild birds, records indicate that as many as 300 of these species are still caught and traded Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPAPrince William Sound, Alaska: A horned puffin on a rocky cliffPhotograph: Lucas Jackson/ReutersXi'an, China: One-month-old panda cub A Bao yawns as he rests at a panda breeding centrePhotograph: AFP/Getty ImagesLondon, UK: A bumblebee at the Chelsea Flower ShowPhotograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty ImagesYangon City, Myanmar: Pigeons rest on power lines in front of a Hindu pagodaPhotograph: APKuhhorst, Germany: Free-range geese are herded together at a farm. Goose is a popular dish in Germany for Christmas day Photograph: Michael Urban/AFP/Getty ImagesAsia Island, Peru: Hundreds of 'Guanay' birds. Guano is used to make some of the world's finest organic fertiliser. It's collected for domestic use and for export as it is a favorite for organic gardeners in the US, France and ItalyPhotograph: Martin Mejia/APPortsmouth, UK: A collection of 120 baby British seahorses (Hippocampus hippocampus) which were born at the Blue Reef Aquarium. The rare short snouted seahorses are part of a nationwide captive breeding programme for the species and the arrival of so many youngsters has delighted experts. They are found in shallow muddy waters, in estuaries or inshore among seaweed and seagrasses Photograph: Chris Ison/PABudapest: A flock of female fallow deer runs across open grassland near Sarkad during the mating seasonPhotograph: Sandor H Szabo/EPACalcutta, India: A fisherman works in a traditional fish breeding pond. The Indian state of West Bengal has 37% of pond resources, of which 70% are utilised for fish culture producing between 1-3m tonnes of freshwater fin-fish per yearPhotograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPAGuiyang, China: Wild macaques hold each other against cold in Qianling ParkPhotograph: Qin Gang/APHamburg, Germany: A baby giant otter swims through a basin at the Hagenbeck zoo. Two giant otters were born at the zoo in January 2008. The species listed as endangered lives in the wild across north-central South AmericaPhotograph: Roland Magunia/AFP/Getty ImagesMinsk, Belarus: A squirrel sits on the ground in a park on a foggy dayPhotograph: Sergei Grits/APMoscow, Russia: A daghestany ibex plays with its motherPhotograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA
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