The Most Compelling Animal Photos of 2011

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Mammals keeper Kylie Hackshall gets close to a baby spotted-tail quoll.

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Misty Pate loads her dogs Abby and Roani along with her other pets in her truck as she prepares to evacuate from a forest fire in Springerville, Arizona.

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A 7-year-old female elephant named Laxmi reaches with her trunk to touch her 13-month old daughter in India.

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Dogs take part in the 2011 Surfing Dog competition in California.


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A pet bear sits among residents who escaped to higher ground from their flooded village in the Tando Allahyar district of Pakistan.

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Alex, a seven-year-old German shepherd, guards the body of her mother, Lexus. Lexus passed away in a tornado on April 27 in Concord, Alabama.

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A woman comforts her dog during an aftershock at an evacuation center for pets and their owners in Japan.

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Two-year-old chimpanzee “Do Do” feeds milk to “Aorn”, a 60-day-old tiger cub.


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This little orange seal has been ostracized by his fellows for being ginger. Also, unfortunately, he is almost blind. He was found waiting for his mother under a log on Tyuleniy Island in Russia. He was picked up and taken by staff at a dolphinarium to keep him from anymore emotional stress.

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Researchers dressed in panda costumes put a panda cub into a basket before transferring it to a new living environment at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center on February 20. The panda costumes are part of a new plan to reintroduce captive giant pandas back into the wild.

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A macaque monkey in Indonesia took a camera from a wildlife photographer before snapping himself in a variety of poses. The macaque monkey is extremely rare and critically endangered making these pictures all the more special.

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Carrie Clark and Ted Garver remove her cat Tucker from her destroyed apartment in Joplin, Missouri. Clark said she last saw him moments before Sunday’s deadly tornado and had found him only minutes before under a bed frame.

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“Frank and Louie” is the world’s longest surviving “janus” feline. He’s 12-years-old. The cat, who’s name is “Frank and Louie”, has two mouths, two noses and three eyes. Frank and Louie have one brain, so the faces react in unison.

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A little girl saves a baby lamb from a farm near the village of Kirkjubaejarklaustur in Iceland. People living next to the glacier where the Grimsvotn volcano burst into life were most affected. Ash shut out daylight and smothered buildings and vehicles.

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Loukanikos, the riot dog, watches as riot policemen try to avoid an exploding petrol bomb thrown by protesters during a demonstration in Athens, Greece.

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A baby hippo and his mother Nicole are pictured at the Berlin Zoo.

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A zoo keeper holds a 9-month-old baby orangutan orphan named Boo as he plays with a toy.

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A one year-old gorilla named Uzuri eats a salad at a zoo in Germany.

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Famous cross-eyed opossum Heidi inspects her new home at the newly built tropical hall of the Zoo in Leipzig, Germany. Unfortunately, Heidi passed away in September.

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Christina Kosorygina weighs a one-month-old jaguar cub at the Leningrad city zoo in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Tyson receives dental treatment at a veterinary clinic in Medellin, Colombia.

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A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day next to the grave of her owner, Cristina Maria Cesario Santana, who died in catastrophic landslides in Brazil.

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Abandoned dogs look through the window of a flooded temple in Ayutthaya province in Thailand.

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A veterinarian and an animal shelter owner in Sao Paulo, Brazil take care of a paralyzed lion. The lion, who’s name is Ariel, was born with a degenerative disease that has left him unable to use his four legs for the past year. (AP)

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A dog looks out from a window as a woman comes out from the door of her house in the ancient city of Bhaktapur near Nepal’s capital.

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A baby dolphin with its umbilical cord still attached was found beached near Montevideo city, Uruguay. Luckily, a rescue organization got involved and and nursed the little guy back to health.

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12 giant panda cubs lie in a crib at the Chengdu Research Base in China.

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Japan Coast Guard members rescue a dog that survived the Japanese earthquake and three weeks at sea!


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A sheep is rescued from a farm in Vermont after flash floods left it stranded due to flooding from Hurricane Irene.

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