Yokohama, Japan. (Itsuo Inouye/Associated Press)
(Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
at the National Zoo in Managua, Nicaragua. (Esteban Felix/Associated Press
at the Mulhouse zoo. (Sebastien Bozon/AFP/Getty Images)#
Lake Natron, at the foot of Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images) #
"Sky Mirror 2006" in Hyde Park in London. (Luke MacGregor /Reuters)
Chris Polydoroff/The St. Paul Pioneer Press via Associated Press
in Akron Falls Park in Akron, N.Y. (David Duprey/Associated Press)
Giant Panda Breeding in China. (China Daily/Reuters
in Limpopo province. (Green Renaissance-World Wildlife Fund/Associated Press
(Daneil Munoz/Reuters) #
at the St.-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in Quebec. (Mathieu Belanger/Reuters)
(Kaia Larsen/Times Record via Associated Press)
in the animal park in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary. (Attila Balazs/MTI via Associated Press) #
in Brasilia. (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters) #
at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.( Ilya Naymushin/Reuters) #
in Seoul, South Korea. (Lee Jin-man/Associated Press) #
Uzynagash, Kazakhstan. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)
Colombia. (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images)
(Max Rossi/Reuters) #
San Francisco skyline. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
(Kyodo/Reuters) #
Switzerland. ( Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near Entrelagos, Chile. (Carlos Gutierrez/Reuters
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