A spotted deer is seen inside a deer park in the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu. Spotted deer are also known as Chital deer or Axix deer that commonly inhabit wooded regions of Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Pakistan.
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Milo, a Saint Bernard, takes a rest after walking on a street with his owner Amphon Ananpavrivan in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Two Blue Crane chicks stand in their enclosure in the zoo of Hanover, northern Germany. The two chicks hatched on July 6 and 7, 2011. The blue crane feeds on insects, roots, fish, frogs, worms, crabs and even reptiles and small mammals.
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A zookeeper sprays water on a hippopotamus to help it cool down at Belgrade’s zoo as an intense heat wave sweeps Serbia with temperature reaching 104 degrees.
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A tourist takes a picture of a whale shark at the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium in Checheng Township, in Pingtung.
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Kimburi, a one year old gorilla baby at the Prague Zoo, Czech Republic plays in the grass. The Prague zoo now has seven gorillas.
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An orangutan protects himself from the cold with a blanket provided by vets at Rio de Janeiro’s zoo. Vets gave blankets and hot soups to animals due to the extreme cold weather affecting Rio and the region.
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Lion cubs play with a soccer ball at the Tierpark Hagenbeck Zoo.
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Children watch as water is sprayed on an Asian elephant to help it cool down at Belgrade’s zoo as an intense heat wave hits Serbia.
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A lioness and a cub cool down in a shade at Belgrade’s zoo.
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A green sea turtle called “Peter Pan” is seen through a window in the side of a containment tank as he swims by at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium in Pittsburgh. The turtle was brought to Pittsburgh on July 12, 2011, from the Florida Aquarium in Tampa, Fla., where it had been undergoing rehabilitation for a condition known as a “floater”.
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In this image released by the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian National Zoo veterinarians hold five cheetah cubs born May 28 at the zoo’s institute in Front Royal, Virginia. The cheetahs, during their first exam, were given a clean bill of health by veterinarians.
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Three young Cheetahs, Asali, Ayo and Alima sit in an enclosure at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany.
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A lemur eats from a refrigerated watermelon to refresh itself in Rome’s zoo. Zoo staff offered animals frozen and refrigerated fruit to refresh them as temperatures reached triple-digits in many Italian cities.
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A 10-month-old male reticulated giraffe, left, gets comfortable in his surroundings at the Erie Zoo in Erie, Pa. while Mitch, right, a nine-year-old male reticulated giraffe, checks out the scene in their shared enclosure. Zoo officials acquired the young giraffe from the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in St. Paul, Minn.
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