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Relaxing at the Walter Zoo in eastern Switzerland, Brigitte the chimp begins to monkey around when she sees passers-by and sticks out his tongue in an almost human expression

 

A baby monkey, a lion cub and tigers cubs play at the Guaipo Manchurian Tiger Park in Shenyang, China

 

Tortoise-lover Katie Bradley has been crocheting wooly designs for her seven pet tortoises. But after posting pictures of the cosy critters on her tortoise blog, she was soon inundated with requests to make them for tortoises around the globe. And now, dozens of tortoises around the world are being decked out dressed as dinosaurs (above), sharks, pumpkins – or just in pretty patterns.

 

A 7-year-old white tiger sits with one of her cubs at Tobu Zoo in Miyashiro, near Tokyo. Four newborn white tiger cubs made their first public appearance at the zoo.

 

Wildlife photographer Dale Morris created this multiple exposure photo of a lemur scampering across the ground in Madagascar, Africa

 

A Jezebel (Delais Eucharis) butterfly in Sri Lanka’s Dimah Conservation Butterfly Garden, home to some 125 species of butterfly

 

Orangutans find shelter from the sun at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Park in Jersey, Channel Islands.

 

Photographer Sergey Gorshkov watched theis grizzly bear tire herself out fishing for salmon in a river before taking a well-deserved break in the Kronotskiy Reserve, Kamchatka, Russia

 

A giant panda rests on a tree ‘panda kindergarten’, a refuge for baby pandas, inside Bifengxia giant panda base in Ya’an, Sichuan province after an earthquake hit Lushan last weekend. According to local reports, more than half of the pandas in Bifengxia were resettled from Wolong panda base after an 7.9 earthquake in 2008 killed nearly 70,000 people.

source::::The Telegraph UK

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