A komodo shows off its dance skills. The reptile was spotted in a park in Surabaya, Indonesia. Although the limber lizard was busy hunting insects, it still had time to stop and perform a quick dance before dashing off into the bushes in search of its next meal.

Wolodja, a young polar bear (Ursus maritimus), plays in his enclosure at Tierpark Berlin in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde, Germany. The two-year-old male bear was born in Moscow on 27 November 2011 and arrived at Tierpark Berlin on 09 August 2013. In Berlin, Wolodja is meant to be a mate for female polar bear Tonja.

Giant panda Yuan Yuan licks her baby in their enclosure at Taipei Zoo. The cub, the first panda born in Taiwan, was delivered on July 7 following a series of artificial insemination sessions after her parents Yuan Yuan and her partner Tuan Tuan failed to conceive naturally.

Two new Sumatran tiger cubs were born on August 5 at the National Zoo in Washington DC

A bear looks for apples in a backyard of a house in Stroudsburg, Pa. Shortly before this sighting, the animal was seen walking down the sidewalk on Main Street, causing quite a stir.

Lucky escape: Wildlife photographer Ben Cranke took this photo of a leopard seal chasing a gentoo penguin up the beach on Cuverville Island, Antarctica

Marine experts think the common dolphin, which is usually more at home in the deep sea water of the Bay of Biscay, must have been chasing fish up the River Dee in North Wales. The disorientated dolphin was first spotted by the public in Connah’s Quay docks in Flintshire, North Wales, on Monday but then swam up further up river to Saltney, near Chester, in Cheshire.

President Barack Obama and his family welcomed a playful new addition to the White House on Monday – a dog called Sunny (right). The black Portuguese water dog joins the first family’s other four-legged friend of the same breed, Bo.Sunny is the perfect little sister for Bo – full of energy and very affectionate – and the First Family picked her name because it fit her cheerful personality, said a post on the White House blog.

A Parma wallaby cub called E.T. is fed while resting in a substitute pouch in Klingenbach, Germany. A private breeder plans to raise the young kangaroo after it was rejected by its mother three weeks earlier.

A penguin inspects a GoPro camera in the Falkland Islands. The still is taken from footage showing the mischievous bird waddle over the camera and nibble it. The greedy bird then tried to pick up and eat the small device before giving up and walking off.

A wallaby that has been sited in Marsden Lane, outside the Pennine village of Slaithwaite, which is near Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.

Sri Lankan mahouts wash their elephants prior to the beginning of an annual Buddhist procession in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Hundreds of thousands of Buddhists throng the hill-capital every year to venerate Buddha’s tooth relic which is taken on a parade on decorated elephants with traditional dancers and drummers performing. The event is considered as Sri Lanka’s most prominent religious and cultural ceremony that dates back centuries.

source:::::The Telegraph …UK

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