Photos: Animal shots of the week
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A rhinoceros calf, bear cubs, leopard cubs, tiger cubs, baby otters and a baby giraffe - it's cuteness overload in this week's animal gallery.
One-month-old Sumatran tigers, Danny, Denar and Diana are posing for pictures and practicing roaring at the zoo in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, March 22, 2012 during their weekly weight checking. The two males and one female were born Feb. 18 and spend the time in a cage with their mother, with a brief break each week for the weighing and a photo session. They will take their first walk in late April. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
- Czarek Sokolowski
Sandy Rosenberg holds her thirteen year-old cat, Jasmine, and gives it oxygen with the help of a McCutchanville firefighter after her cat was rescued from her home at 742 Strawberry Hill Road during a three-alarm fire that destroyed four houses and killed one person in Evansville, Ind. on Tuesday evening, March 20, 2012. Officials say one man died in a fire that spread to four houses in an Evansville neighborhood. (AP Photo/The Evansville Courier & Press, Erin McCracken)
- ERIN McCRACKEN
Spencer, a Karelian Bear Dog, walks along the trail with owner and handler Department of Fish and Wildlife Officer Dustin Prater during a training exercise at the Banner Forest in Port Orchard, Wash., on Thursday, March 22, 2012. (AP Photo/MEEGAN M. REID, KITSAP SUN)
- MEEGAN M. REID
Ahmet Parca, a 57-year-old Turkish villager, farms his land with a horse-drawn plough near the Syrian border, close to the Turkish border town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, Turkey, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Nearly 17,000 Syrian refugees, fleeing the violence in Syria, have arrived in Turkey. (AP Photo/Selcan Hacaoglu)
- Selcan Hacaoglu
Sisters Maya, left, and Kona, Boxers belonging to Colleen Daniels, enjoy the fourth annual Doggie Easter Egg Hunt held Sunday, March 25, 2012 at the Fort Walton Landing Park in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Northwest Florida Daily News, Devon Ravine)
- Devon Ravine
A pair of dogs watch Todd Masterton play a violin at Anne E Moncure Elementary School as part of the weeklong Pennies for a Piano on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. The school is trying to raise $3,000 for a new piano. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Peter Cihelka)
- Peter Cihelka
Carson Grammer, 6, of Alto, Texas, eyes the ground as he slides off the side of his sheep during his ride in the annual Mutton Bustin' competition Thursday, March 22, 2012, on the opening night of the Nacogdoches Pro Rodeo at the Nacogdoches County Exposition Center in Nacogdoches, Texas. (AP Photo/The Daily Sentinel, Andrew D. Brosig)
- Andrew D. Brosig
Lo, a two-year-old corgi mixed breed dog, delivers the ball to San Diego Padres' Daniel Robertson, left, during the first pitch ceremony prior to the a spring training baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Peoria, Ariz. Lo's handler is Karen Scott, right, from the Humane Society and Robertson went two-for-two in the game. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
- Lenny Ignelzi
Two endangered clouded leopard cubs were introduced to the media at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium Friday, March 23, 2012. The two-week-old cubs will make their public debut on Saturday, March 24, with appearances every during their daily feeding times, currently 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The public will have an opportunity to vote on the cubs' names through the zoo's website (pdza.org). (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Joe Barrentine)
- Joe Barrentine
MIke, left, Thor, center, and Boo, three orphaned grizzly bear cubs that came to the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich., from Alaska in December make their debut, Thursday, March 22, 2012. The cubs spent the winter "denned up" as they would in the wild. The 14-month-old brothers explored their new habitat, including having a dip in the 6-foot-deep pool and doing a little rough-housing. The three were orphaned in October and captured by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game after their mother was shot and killed by a poacher. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
- Carlos Osorio
This March 19, 2012 image provided by the Defenders of Wildlife shows bison being rounded up for transfer at the Rigler Quarantine Facility near Gardiner, Mont. A Montana judge on Tuesday March 20, 2012, rejected a request that he intervene in the transfer of these dozens of Yellowstone National Park bison to the tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeast Mont. (AP Photo/Lynn Donaldson,TheStoryGroup)
- Lynn Donaldson/TheStoryGrooup
Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium staff biologist Andy Goldfarb, introduces the zoo's newest endangered clouded leopard cubs to the media Friday, March 23, 2012. The two-week-old cubs will make their public debut March 24, with appearances every during their daily feeding times, currently 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The public will have an opportunity to vote on the cubs' names through the zoo's website (pdza.org). (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Joe Barrentine)
- Joe Barrentine
Animal control officer George DeLeon pets a kitten rescued from under the hood of a van at the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter in Santa Cruz, Calif., Wednesday March 21, 2012. The stowaway kitten is safe despite taking a hair-raising 85-mile ride from Mill Valley across the Golden Gate Bridge in a van's engine compartment. Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter spokesman Todd Stosuy says the 8-month-old feline was probably just looking for a warm place to sleep. The shelter is trying to locate the owner. (AP Photo/Santa Cruz Sentinel, Jonathan Weiand)
- Jonathan Weiand
From left, month-old otters Takoda, Etu and Rose, wait to be examined by a veterinarian in their night house at the Oakland Zoo on Thursday, March 22, 2012 in Oakland, Calif. Two males and a female otter were born to Ginger and dad Heath at the zoo on Feb. 18. (AP Photo/The Tribune, Jane Tyska)
- Jane Tyska
Etu, a month-old baby otter, cries as he's about to be examined by Dr. Karen Emanuelson, director of veterinary services and research, in the otter's night house at the Oakland Zoo on Thursday, March 22, 2012 in Oakland, Calif. Two males and a female otter were born to Ginger and dad Heath at the zoo on Feb. 18. Their names are Etu, Takoda and Rose, and they will be able to be viewed by the public in May. (AP Photo/The Tribune, Jane Tyska)
- Jane Tyska
A dog runs through the path lined by faithful as they wait for the the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI in Guanajuato, Mexico, Saturday March 24, 2012. At the entrance to Guanajuato, Benedict received the keys to the city. The pope reserved his only public remarks Saturday for a gathering of about 4,000 children and their parents massed in the Plaza de la Paz or Peace Plaza. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
- Alexandre Meneghini
A Turkish boy, riding a donkey, herds sheep along the Syrian border near the Turkish town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, Turkey, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Nearly 17,000 Syrian refugees, fleeing the violence in Syria, have arrived in Turkey. (AP Photo/Selcan Hacaoglu)
- Selcan Hacaoglu
In this March 20, 2012 photo provided by the Wildife Conservation Society, an adult Baringo giraffe muzzles her recently born female calf at the Bronx Zoo in New York. Born at the Zoo on March 10, 2012, the calf will make her debut at the Zoo's African Plains exhibit in late March. (AP Photo/Wildlife Conservation Society, Julie Larsen Maher)
- Julie Larsen Maher
Penny Sheffield from Yuma gets a close look at a wild burro during the annual Bureau of Land Managements Wild Horse and Burro adoption event Friday, March 23, 2012, afternoon at the Yuma County Fairgrounds, in Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Yuma Daily Sun, Craig Fry)
- Craig Fry
Chad Cooper with the Pismo Beach Fire Department rappells down the cliff to rescue Sasha Jeffries 4-year-old the pit bull dog who fell 20 feet to a ledge of fallen rocks above the ocean, Friday, March 23, 2012 in Pismo Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/The Tribune, David Middlecamp)
- David Middlecamp
Thor, left, and Boo, two of three orphaned grizzly bear cubs that came to the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich., from Alaska in December wrestle, Thursday, March 22, 2012. The cubs spent the winter "denned up" as they would in the wild. The 14-month-old brothers explored their new habitat, including having a dip in the 6-foot-deep pool and doing a little rough-housing. The three were orphaned in October and captured by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game after their mother was shot and killed by a poacher. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
- Carlos Osorio
An elephant grazes on the lower levels of Mount Kenya, the second-highest peak in Africa at 5,199 meters (17,057 feet), as forest fires burn on the slopes above, in Kenya Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Fires that have been raging across Mount Kenya may have been set by poachers trying to create a diversion from their illegal attacks on animals, a wildlife official said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
- Ben Curtis
The little black rhinoceros calf (Diceros bicornis michaeli) relaxes in the sand in the Leipzig zoo, central Germany, Sunday, March 25, 2012. The rhinoceros calf was born in Leipzig, Dec. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
- Jens Meyer
Willow Schrock, 13, tosses a snowball to her dog, Wyatt, outside The Dial Station along Silver Falls Drive SE, Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in Silverton, Ore. (AP Photo/Statesman-Journal, Cara Pallone)
- Cara Pallone
One-month-old Sumatran tigers, Danny, Denar and Diana are posing for pictures and practicing roaring at the zoo in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, March 22, 2012 during their weekly weight checking. The two males and one female were born Feb. 18 and spend the time in a cage with their mother, with a brief break each week for the weighing and a photo session. They will take their first walk in late April. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
- Czarek Sokolowski
Sandy Rosenberg holds her thirteen year-old cat, Jasmine, and gives it oxygen with the help of a McCutchanville firefighter after her cat was rescued from her home at 742 Strawberry Hill Road during a three-alarm fire that destroyed four houses and killed one person in Evansville, Ind. on Tuesday evening, March 20, 2012. Officials say one man died in a fire that spread to four houses in an Evansville neighborhood. (AP Photo/The Evansville Courier & Press, Erin McCracken)
- ERIN McCRACKEN
Spencer, a Karelian Bear Dog, walks along the trail with owner and handler Department of Fish and Wildlife Officer Dustin Prater during a training exercise at the Banner Forest in Port Orchard, Wash., on Thursday, March 22, 2012. (AP Photo/MEEGAN M. REID, KITSAP SUN)
- MEEGAN M. REID
Ahmet Parca, a 57-year-old Turkish villager, farms his land with a horse-drawn plough near the Syrian border, close to the Turkish border town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, Turkey, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Nearly 17,000 Syrian refugees, fleeing the violence in Syria, have arrived in Turkey. (AP Photo/Selcan Hacaoglu)
- Selcan Hacaoglu
Sisters Maya, left, and Kona, Boxers belonging to Colleen Daniels, enjoy the fourth annual Doggie Easter Egg Hunt held Sunday, March 25, 2012 at the Fort Walton Landing Park in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Northwest Florida Daily News, Devon Ravine)
- Devon Ravine
A pair of dogs watch Todd Masterton play a violin at Anne E Moncure Elementary School as part of the weeklong Pennies for a Piano on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. The school is trying to raise $3,000 for a new piano. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Peter Cihelka)
- Peter Cihelka
Carson Grammer, 6, of Alto, Texas, eyes the ground as he slides off the side of his sheep during his ride in the annual Mutton Bustin' competition Thursday, March 22, 2012, on the opening night of the Nacogdoches Pro Rodeo at the Nacogdoches County Exposition Center in Nacogdoches, Texas. (AP Photo/The Daily Sentinel, Andrew D. Brosig)
- Andrew D. Brosig
Lo, a two-year-old corgi mixed breed dog, delivers the ball to San Diego Padres' Daniel Robertson, left, during the first pitch ceremony prior to the a spring training baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Peoria, Ariz. Lo's handler is Karen Scott, right, from the Humane Society and Robertson went two-for-two in the game. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
- Lenny Ignelzi
The little black rhinoceros calf (Diceros bicornis michaeli) relaxes in the sand in the Leipzig zoo, central Germany, Sunday, March 25, 2012. The rhinoceros calf was born in Leipzig, Dec. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
- Jens Meyer
Two endangered clouded leopard cubs were introduced to the media at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium Friday, March 23, 2012. The two-week-old cubs will make their public debut on Saturday, March 24, with appearances every during their daily feeding times, currently 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The public will have an opportunity to vote on the cubs' names through the zoo's website (pdza.org). (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Joe Barrentine)
- Joe Barrentine
MIke, left, Thor, center, and Boo, three orphaned grizzly bear cubs that came to the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich., from Alaska in December make their debut, Thursday, March 22, 2012. The cubs spent the winter "denned up" as they would in the wild. The 14-month-old brothers explored their new habitat, including having a dip in the 6-foot-deep pool and doing a little rough-housing. The three were orphaned in October and captured by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game after their mother was shot and killed by a poacher. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
- Carlos Osorio
This March 19, 2012 image provided by the Defenders of Wildlife shows bison being rounded up for transfer at the Rigler Quarantine Facility near Gardiner, Mont. A Montana judge on Tuesday March 20, 2012, rejected a request that he intervene in the transfer of these dozens of Yellowstone National Park bison to the tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeast Mont. (AP Photo/Lynn Donaldson,TheStoryGroup)
- Lynn Donaldson/TheStoryGrooup
Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium staff biologist Andy Goldfarb, introduces the zoo's newest endangered clouded leopard cubs to the media Friday, March 23, 2012. The two-week-old cubs will make their public debut March 24, with appearances every during their daily feeding times, currently 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The public will have an opportunity to vote on the cubs' names through the zoo's website (pdza.org). (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Joe Barrentine)
- Joe Barrentine
Animal control officer George DeLeon pets a kitten rescued from under the hood of a van at the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter in Santa Cruz, Calif., Wednesday March 21, 2012. The stowaway kitten is safe despite taking a hair-raising 85-mile ride from Mill Valley across the Golden Gate Bridge in a van's engine compartment. Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter spokesman Todd Stosuy says the 8-month-old feline was probably just looking for a warm place to sleep. The shelter is trying to locate the owner. (AP Photo/Santa Cruz Sentinel, Jonathan Weiand)
- Jonathan Weiand
From left, month-old otters Takoda, Etu and Rose, wait to be examined by a veterinarian in their night house at the Oakland Zoo on Thursday, March 22, 2012 in Oakland, Calif. Two males and a female otter were born to Ginger and dad Heath at the zoo on Feb. 18. (AP Photo/The Tribune, Jane Tyska)
- Jane Tyska
Etu, a month-old baby otter, cries as he's about to be examined by Dr. Karen Emanuelson, director of veterinary services and research, in the otter's night house at the Oakland Zoo on Thursday, March 22, 2012 in Oakland, Calif. Two males and a female otter were born to Ginger and dad Heath at the zoo on Feb. 18. Their names are Etu, Takoda and Rose, and they will be able to be viewed by the public in May. (AP Photo/The Tribune, Jane Tyska)
- Jane Tyska
A dog runs through the path lined by faithful as they wait for the the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI in Guanajuato, Mexico, Saturday March 24, 2012. At the entrance to Guanajuato, Benedict received the keys to the city. The pope reserved his only public remarks Saturday for a gathering of about 4,000 children and their parents massed in the Plaza de la Paz or Peace Plaza. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
- Alexandre Meneghini
A Turkish boy, riding a donkey, herds sheep along the Syrian border near the Turkish town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, Turkey, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Nearly 17,000 Syrian refugees, fleeing the violence in Syria, have arrived in Turkey. (AP Photo/Selcan Hacaoglu)
- Selcan Hacaoglu
A contestant attempts to get her horse back into the course during competition at Stateline Stables Open Fun Show Saturday March 24, 2012 in Heston, Ind. (AP Photo/The News Dispatch, Bob Wellinski)
- Bob Wellinski
An as yet unnamed giant otter pup, (Pteronura brasiliensis) eats a fish in the Leipzig zoo, central Germany, Sunday, March 25, 2012. The pup was born in Leipzig, on Dec. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
- Jens Meyer
A horse walks in a field on a warm spring afternoon along Green Grove Road in Scott Township, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. (AP Photo / The Scranton Times-Tribune, Butch Comegys)
- Butch Comegys
Alyssa Weber, of Lake in the Hills, Ill., grooms Nicholas before the competition during the Dubuque Kennel Club Dog Show at the Five Flags Center, Saturday, March 24, 2012 in Dubuque, Iowa. (AP Photo/The Telegraph Herald, Mike Burley)
- Mike Burley
A squirrel appears irritated about being interrupted while searching for food at Wilson Park in Florence, Ala., Monday March 19, 2012. (AP Photo/The Times Daily, Matt McKean)
- MATT MCKEAN
In this March 20, 2012 photo provided by the Wildife Conservation Society, an adult Baringo giraffe muzzles her recently born female calf at the Bronx Zoo in New York. Born at the Zoo on March 10, 2012, the calf will make her debut at the Zoo's African Plains exhibit in late March. (AP Photo/Wildlife Conservation Society, Julie Larsen Maher)
- Julie Larsen Maher
Penny Sheffield from Yuma gets a close look at a wild burro during the annual Bureau of Land Managements Wild Horse and Burro adoption event Friday, March 23, 2012, afternoon at the Yuma County Fairgrounds, in Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Yuma Daily Sun, Craig Fry)
- Craig Fry
Chad Cooper with the Pismo Beach Fire Department rappells down the cliff to rescue Sasha Jeffries 4-year-old the pit bull dog who fell 20 feet to a ledge of fallen rocks above the ocean, Friday, March 23, 2012 in Pismo Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/The Tribune, David Middlecamp)
- David Middlecamp
Thor, left, and Boo, two of three orphaned grizzly bear cubs that came to the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich., from Alaska in December wrestle, Thursday, March 22, 2012. The cubs spent the winter "denned up" as they would in the wild. The 14-month-old brothers explored their new habitat, including having a dip in the 6-foot-deep pool and doing a little rough-housing. The three were orphaned in October and captured by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game after their mother was shot and killed by a poacher. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
- Carlos Osorio
An elephant grazes on the lower levels of Mount Kenya, the second-highest peak in Africa at 5,199 meters (17,057 feet), as forest fires burn on the slopes above, in Kenya Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Fires that have been raging across Mount Kenya may have been set by poachers trying to create a diversion from their illegal attacks on animals, a wildlife official said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
- Ben Curtis
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