A caracal kitten explores its enclosure at Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic
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A gull tosses a herring in the air after it stole it from a delivery truck in Rockland, Maine
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A lazy damselfly uses a swimming grass snake as a perch as the reptile swims across a pond at Lackford Lakes Nature Reserve near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
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Taiga forest, Eastern Finland
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It looks like an optical illusion but this chestnut foal was born with his own perfect white shadow. The unique marking is the profile of another horse which runs up his left flank and neck. It then merges seamlessly from white to black into his mane.
Photo: Ross Parry (via Daily Mail)
At the Cape Pembrokeshire Nature Reserve in the Falkland Islands, a very unlikely friendship has occurred between a herd of horses and a lost penguin.
After becoming separated from its friends, the penguin was ‘adopted’ by the horses as one of their own and now lives side by side with the horses on the island. But don’t feel too bad for the lost penguin – the Falklands has around 500,000 breeding pairs of penguins on the island so this little guy will easily find a mate if he wishes. For now, though, it looks like he’s found a few new friends to keep him entertained until he’s ready to settle down!
Via The Daily Mail
http://www.lostateminor.com/2015/07/13/yes-a-land-exists-where-horses-are-bffs-with-penguins/
A dragonfly rests on a lotus bud in a pond in the Yanpu Park in Huangshan City, east China’s Anhui Province
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A ten and a half week old Andean condor chick named Moccas (right) is seen with a ten day old chick at the International Centre for Birds of Prey in Gloucestershire
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The blue feathers of this Stellar’s Jay were so vibrant on Mount Saint Piran—@hales_photo.
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Little Bee-eaters at sunset
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A walrus wallows in shallow water off the coast of Svalbard in the Arctic
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A northern flicker takes flight as it leaves its nest in a forest in Alaska
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Meet Glenn and Buzz, two dogs with a very special relationship. The pair were recently found abandoned in a sea tunnel in Hartlepool, County Durham, and were rescued by Stray Aid, a rehoming centre for dogs in Coxhoe. The dogs are believed to be roughly 10 years old and it is thought they were abandoned because of their age and Glenn’s vision problems. Buzz, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, is Glenn’s very own ‘guide dog’. He has been seen leading Glenn while on walks, helping him find his food and assisting him getting into bed.
Picture: www.strayaid.org.uk (via Animal pictures of the week: 26 June 2015 - Telegraph)