Animal Photos Of the Week…

 

Tiger plays with dog

Two dogs have become best friends with a tiger. The dogs – mother Lia, pictured, and her male pup Hugo – are inseparable from new-born tiger cub Suria. Suria was born at the Oasis of the Siberian Tiger, in Senec, Slovakia – a protected area that aims to breed ussurian tigers. Suria soon became friendly with Lia and Hugo, who live on the site.Picture: LUCIA ZUSTAKOVA / CATERS NEWS  

 

These fluffy ducklings had a lucky escape when quack-thinking staff at the Knowsley Safari Park, Merseyside, spotted them in the lion enclosure. A keeper distracted the big cats so the babies - nicknamed Ant and Dec - could be moved to safety.

These fluffy ducklings had a lucky escape when quack-thinking staff at the Knowsley Safari Park, Merseyside, spotted them in the lion enclosure. A keeper distracted the big cats so the babies – nicknamed Ant and Dec – could be moved to safety.Picture: KNOWSLEY SAFARI PARK  

 

Hedgehog with head stuck

This hedgehog in the western German city of Saarbruecken had a lucky escape after being tempted to try and eat the remains of a pudding at the bottom of a plastic carton and getting its head stuck.The trapped hedgehog was spotted walking in the middle of the street by a motorist. He was worried that it was likely to be run over, despite stopping and attempting to divert drivers around the animal.He called police to alert them to the fact that there was a hedgehog on the road which motorists were swerving to avoid. When officers arrived they managed to find the animal and free it from the pudding container.  

 

A lion cub stretches as the rain begins to fall in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya

A lion cub stretches as the rain begins to fall in the Masai Mara National Reserve in KenyaPicture: Mark Bridger/Solent News 

 

Curious cheetahs peer into a sunroof in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Curious cheetahs peer into a sunroof in the Masai Mara National Reserve, KenyaPicture: Elmar Weiss/HotSpot Media 

 

Beefy the four-day-old giant lamb stands next to another lamb the same age at Cannon Hall farm in Barnsley

Beefy the four-day-old giant lamb stands next to another lamb the same age at Cannon Hall farm in BarnsleyPicture: ROSS PARRY

 

A polar bear cub and its mother Uslada play after leaving their winter shelter in St.Petersburg's zoo

A polar bear cub and its mother Uslada play after leaving their winter shelter in St.Petersburg’s zooPicture: EPA/ANATOLY MALTSEV

 

An Afghan nomad, called Kuchi, leads his camel across a road in Jalalabad-Kabul highway east of Kabul, Afghanistan

Kuchi, an Afghan nomad, leads his camel across a road in Jalalabad-Kabul highway east of Kabul, AfghanistanPicture: Rahmat Gul/AP 

 

A curious leopard cub toys with Ranger Roan Ravenhill's GoPro camera, in MalaMala Game Reserve in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

A curious leopard cub toys with ranger Roan Ravenhill’s GoPro camera in MalaMala Game Reserve in Mpumalanga Province, South AfricaPicture: Roan Clive Ravenhill/Barcroft 

SOURCE:::: The Telegraph UK

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