Iberian Lynx

An Iberian lynx looks from his enclosure at Cabarceno nature reserve near Santander, northern Spain, October 25, 2005. Europe is doing poorly in safeguarding a range of wildlife from Iberian lynxes to Arctic lemmings and has to do more to reach a goal of halting a loss of species diversity by 2010, an international report said. REUTERS/Victor Fraile Source

Golden Monkeys

China's golden monkeys, a species more endangered than giant pandas, have made a surprising comeback with populations quadrupling in the past two decades.(AFP/File/Juan Pratginestos) Source

Leopard Cubs

Leopard cubs rest on a tree branch inside a wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of the northern Indian city of Jammu February 16, 2006. The cubs were found by locals, a wildlife sanctuary official said. REUTERS/Amit Gupta Source

Living Desert Zoo, Palm Desert CA

A giraffe is seen at the 'Living Desert' zoo in Palm Desert, California February 19, 2006. The zoo was established in 1970 as a 360 acre wilderness preserve of the deserts of the world and is the only zoological and botanical park specializing in one ecosystem. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni Source

White Peacock

A white peacock displays its feathers in a bird park in Amman February 21, 2006. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji Source

Friends: Hog & Antelope

This photo released by the Los Angeles Zoo shows Willy, a 10-year-old, 187-pound Red River porcine, right, nuzzling his new companion Nicole, a 16-year-old bongo antelope, in their exhibit at the zoo Feb. 13, 2006, in Los Angeles. Willy's mate Ruby died last summer of cancer and within a week the hog turned to the antelope for companionship. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Zoo, Jaime Pham) Source

Breeding Control at Noah's Ark

A zebra gallops beside giraffes in the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem February 22, 2006. After recent multiple births of giraffes, zookeepers have injected a unique chemical contraceptive in the zoo's female giraffes as part of a breeding control campaign. Picture taken February 22, 2006. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Source

Tiny Tarsiers

Tarsiers, the smallest primates in the world and considered an endangered species, cling to a tree branch inside a cage in a captive breeding center in Loboc, Bohol province in central Philippines REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo Source

Abot's Bath Time

An Asian elephant named Abot reacts as she is cleaned at Malaysia's National Elephant Conservation Centre in Kuala Gandah, 110 km (68 miles) east of Kuala Lumpur on February 16, 2006. The centre, dedicated to the elephant relocation effort, has moved about 500 elephants to suitable habitats over the past 32 years. REUTERS/BAZUKI MUHAMMAD Source

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Kiwi Egg Hatches In Us Zoo

For the first time in more than 30 years, a kiwi chick is being cared for at Washington's national zoo. The chick was slightly premature and arrived after 64 days of incubation.

It will have to be weighed every day for months to make sure it is healthy and not losing too much weight. Kiwi chicks do not eat, instead they absorb a very large internal yolk sack. The bird's sex will not be known for a few days. It is from an endangered species, a north island brown. Zoo staff say they are planning to give it a Maori name meaning hope or strength. It is only the second kiwi to hatch in the zoo's 116-year history. Source

Sea Lion Smooch

Paula Debaisi, with her eyes covered by a mask, is touched by a sea lion named 'Bandolero' at Buenos Aires Zoo February 16, 2006. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci Source

Greenlands Glacial Warming

The Ilulissat fjord, on Greenland's western coast. Over the past five years, glaciers in Greenland have been breaking off into the Atlantic nearly twice as fast as previously thought, contributing one-sixth to a sea level rise, US researchers said(AFP/File/Slim Allagui) Source

Global Warming Forecast Grim
It appears that sea leavels are rising faster than predicted thanks to global warming. Greenland (pictured above) is probably going to contribute more and faster to sea level rise than predicted.

Eagle's Said No Longer Endangered

The bald eagle is shown in Homer, Alaska. Seven years after the government said the fierce raptor is no longer threatend with extinction, officials have come up with a plan for getting it removed from the endangered species list. (AP Photo/Heather Forcier/File) Source

Chinese Snow Leopard

In this undated photo released by Chinese Academy of Sciences, snow leopard is seen in remote region of China. Chinese scientists have photographed five rare snow leopards on a remote mountain, raising hopes there might be more of the endangered animals in the wild than previously thought, a researcher said Friday, Feb. 17, 2006. The photographs were snapped by automatic infrared cameras on a mountain in China's northwest, the first clear sightings after a year of tracking the elusive big cats. (AP Photo/Chinese Academy of Sciences, HO) Source

Baby Columbus Monkey Born

CLOVER and Brodie are as proud as any new doting parents of a baby Columbus Monkey at the Melbourne Zoo. The black and white baby colobus monkey was born on January 9 and has yet to be named. The birth is part of a regional breeding program to protect the endangered species. Colobus monkeys are native to parts of Africa and are distinguishable by their striking glossy black and white pelts and flowing tails. Their coat has made them an attractive target for poachers - a practice that has rendered them an endangered species. (Source)

Humpback Whale Freed

In a photo released by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, a snarled humpback whale can be seen dragging line and a plastic buoy, that was lodged in its mouth which is part of the debris that wildlife scientists freed from the whale, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2006, near Lanai, Hawaii. Each year, an estimated five thousand humpbacks migrate to warmer Hawaiian waters from their North Pacific feeding grounds to give birth, mate and socialize. (AP Photo/NOAA, Ed Lyman) (Source)

Horny Toad

A poisonous cane toad sits on a log before feeding time at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, February 15, 2005. Cane toads in Australia have developed longer legs to enable them to invade more territory, scientists said on Wednesday. REUTERS/David Gray (Source)

Lion Moves to Riverbanks Zoo

The Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is getting a male lion. The lion, named Zuri, is a pedigreed African male lion. Pedigreed means his roots can be traced back to the wild. In Zuri's case, that's to regions of Southern Africa. It's hoped that he'll form a pride with the two female lions that are already at the zoo. (Source)

San Francisco Zoo Sex Tour

On Valentine's Day the San Francisco Zoo held a tour that demonstrated to guests how animals persuaded a mate to engage in sexual intercourse. Couples found the guides language and demonstration fun and entertaining.

One Fish, Two Fish, What Kind of Fish is This?

In this Jan. 2006 photo provided by Diane Littler, a unique new species of Sargassum is seen that scientists of the Conservation International Marine RAP (Rapid Assessment Program) expedition to Saba Bank Atoll, Netherlands Antilles, discovered along with more than a dozen other new species of seaweeds. Scientists have discovered what they believe is one new fish and at least 20 specimens of previously unknown seaweeds during the recent expedition. (AP Photo/Diane Littler, Conservation International, HO) NO ARCHIVE

Elephant Love

Nam Choke, an 8-year-old bull elephant (L), and Boonrawd, a 7-year-old cow elephant, form a heart shape with their trunks while the sun sets in the background at an elephant camp in the former Thai kingdom of Ayutthaya, 70 km (44 miles) north of Bangkok February 12, 2006. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang

Love Birds

Love birds : Two flamingoes are seen forming a heart shape as they walk past each other at London Zoo. (AFP/Carl de Souza)

Toucans

Toucans rest inside a cage in the Beijing Zoo February 13, 2006. REUTERS/Jason Lee

Tiger Bones Sold as Supplement

The Shanghai zoo, located in China's economic capital, is reportedly storing the bones of dead tigers in distilled spirits and selling the resulting tonic as a health supplement(AFP/File/Patrick Bernard)

Thai Zoo Wants to Serve African Animals as Food

A gibbon jumps on a tree at the Chiang Mai Night Safari in the Chiang Mai province of northern Thailand, 06 February 2006. The Thai zoo that outraged conservationists with plans to serve up zebra and giraffe meat at its restaurant opened but without some 175 wild animals it tried to obtain from Kenya.(AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul) Source

Prehensile Tailed Porcupine

The National Zoo's newest arrival, a prehensile-tailed porcupine, was born early morning, February 8, 2006, and is on exhibit at the Washington's National Zoo's Small Mammal House. This newborn is the fourth prehensile-tailed porcupine at the National Zoo, along with its parents and older sister, which was born last April. Prehensile-tailed porcupines, which are native to South America, use their tails for grasping and hanging. Porcupines are mostly nocturnal, and can become quite aggressive when threatened. They shake their quills, growl and curl up into a ball if caught. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Jessie Cohen/Smithsonian's National Zoo/Handout

Those Wild Ass Somali's

An African Somali wild ass foal Djara, born on Jan. 28, 2006, frolicks in its enclosure of the Basel Zoo, Basel, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006. According to the zoo, the Somali wild ass (Equus africanus somalicus) are regarded a rare species on earth with only an estimate 150 to 300 animals living in the wilderness. (AP Photo/Keystone, Georgios Kefalas)

Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae

O-Rang!

A young orangutan takes a sip of milk at Jakarta's Ragunan zoo February 9, 2006. There are an estimated 30,000 orangutans left in the wild but the deforestation of their main habitat on Indonesia's part of Borneo (Kalimantan) and Sumatra island is threatening their existence. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside Source: Yahoo

Zoo Worker Killed by Bear

An 80-year-old worker at a shuttered Downstate petting zoo died Wednesday after being mauled by one of the zoo's black bears. Closed to the public a few years ago, Tom Phillipswent to feed the animals upong finding a black bear had escaped its cage. Trying to lure the animal back with a bag of dog food, the bear attacked and killed Phillips. The bear was destroyed by authorities. Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0602030236feb03,1,4678047.story?track=rss)

The bear pictured above was photographied at the Silver Springs Nature and Zoological park in Silver Springs, Florida. Silver Springs is home to the largest private bear exhibit in the US. Many bears, including 3 Kodiak bears, were circus rescues.

Wild Bison

Wild bisons play in the pen in a zoo 'Royev Ruchey' in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, February 3, 2006. The temperature in Krasnoyarsk stays below minus 30 Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit). REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

Feeding Giraffes

This Giraffe and I became friends during a snack out session in Silver Springs, Ocala Florida. Gentle giants, Giraffe's stand up to 18 feet tall and have a prehensile bluish tongue up to 18 inches long.

Green Treefrog

This dark clay colored Green Treefrog was found sitting on a brick stair way in Gainesville, Florida in January 2006 snacking on small ants and bugs. Green Treefrogs are identified by their "racing stripe" and small flick colors ona base shade of free from a neon shade to a dark gray/gree you see here. You can see all the variations at http://www.dickbrewer.org/gtf.html

Cougars Post Coitus

This pair of Cougars were found mating and making all kinds of racket in Silver Springs Ocala, Florida. Cougars are known by many names including the panther, puma, catamount, and mountain lion. Although once found throughout much of North America, cougars are now absent from many regions where they once were common. These Eastern Cougars are Endangered throughout its range. Much of its habitat has been eliminated through extensive deforestation, and its primary prey, the white-tailed deer, has suffered significant population and range reductions.

Yellow & Blue Macaw's

This pair of Yellow and Blue Macaws were spotted in Silver Springs, Ocala. The natural habitat of the Blue and Gold Macaw includes open marshlands and woodlands, rainforest, and other areas with large trees. They are usually seen in pairs, family groups, or flocks of not more than 20 birds. They looks right at home amongs the freshwater springs and surrounding swampland.

Groundhog Predicts Long Winter

Punxsutawney Phil, the weather predicting groundhog, is held by his handler Bill Deeley on his den after the prediction of six more weeks of winter in Punxsutawney, Pa. on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Happily Married Panda Bears

Giant pandas Chuang Chuang (male, back) and Lin Hui (female, front) play with each other in the Chiang Mai Zoo of Chiang Mai, Thailand, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2006. The giant panda couple was sent here from China's Sichuan Province on Oct. 12, 2003, and they got married on Nov. 9, 2005. They will spend another Spring Festival here in Thailand. (AP Photo /Xinhua, Li Guotian)

Tiger Cub

A tiger cub looks over a zoo keeper's shoulder at the zoo in Zurich, in July 2002. Pampered zoo animals in the Swiss city of Zurich gobbled up 500 tonnes of fresh food prepared by a dedicated gourmet chef last year, including 21 tonnes (46,000 pounds) of meat, 714 garlic bulbs and 11,135 kiwi fruit.(AFP/Keystone/File/Walter Bieri)

Pelican

A baby pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), below, is seen with a full-grown pelican in the Zoo Friedrichsfelde in Berlin, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006. The baby pelican was born at the end of 2005. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns)

Komodo Dragon

A 2 m (6.6 feet) Komodo dragon explores its new surroundings at the national zoo in the South African capital of Pretoria January 31, 2006. A breeding pair of Komodo dragons arrived at the zoo as part of an exchange programme between the Pretoria Zoo and Indonesia's Surabaya Zoo. There are an estimated 2, 800 Komodo dragons left in the wilds of the Komodo and Rinca islands, off the coast of Indonesia. REUTERS/Salim Henry

Net Giraffe

Two-month-old net giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata), Lenga, looks towards photographers at the zoo in Frankfurt, central Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006. Lengai is the youngest of Frankfurt's net giraffes that originally come from northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) Email Photo Print Photo