Photos: Animal shots of the week
New zoo additions, wildlife caught on camera, a cat caring for a puppy and a pet prairie dog - it's all in this week's animal gallery.
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In this June 12, 2013 photo, infant gibbon Duke is held by an animal keeper at the Greensboro Science Center in Greensboro, N.C. (AP Photo/News & Record, Joseph Rodriguez)
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Photo taken by Arizona Daily Star reader Dale Suter in Kenya, March 2013. Send in your animal shots here.
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Dari, the oldest elephant at Hogle Zoo, eats a watermelon Thursday, June 20, 2013 in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Scott Sommerdorf )
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Dr. Erika Crook examines "Kronk" an Aldabra Tortoise at Hogle Zoo, Thursday, June 20, 2013 in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Scott Sommerdorf )
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Suzanne Morrell, vice-president of DockDogs of the Tri-Cities, work with their dog Chaps on some training jumps Saturday, June 22, 2013, at Columbia Point Park Marina in Richland, Wash. (AP Photo/The Tri-City Herald, Richard Dickin)
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This photo provided by Montana Department of Transportation shows a black bear exiting an animal passageway in Polson, Mont. In 2011, game cameras documented 22,466 animals moving through the passages, arcing over U.S. Highway 93 atop Evaro Hill. ThatÃs up from 12,022 critters in 2010. The tally included 25 species, grizzly bears, river otters, badgers, elk and bobcats among them. (AP Photo/Montana Department of Transportation, Courtesy of CSKT, MDT & WTI-MSU)
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This undated photo provided by Montana Department of Transportation shows Mule Deer crossing through an animal passageway in Polson, Mont. In 2011, game cameras documented 22,466 animals moving through the passages, arcing over U.S. Highway 93 atop Evaro Hill. ThatÃs up from 12,022 critters in 2010. The tally included 25 species, grizzly bears, river otters, badgers, elk and bobcats among them. (AP Photo/Montana Department of Transportation, Courtesy of CSKT, MDT & WTI-MSU)
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This June 8, 2013 image provided by Tim Bartlett shows a wolf chasing Bartlett's motorcycle down Highway 93 in Kootenay National Park highway in British Columbia, Canada. Bartlett of Banff reported the wolf darted out into the road and then began chasing him on June 8 as he was riding through the Canadian Rockies. The animal got within several feet of him before Bartlett accelerated. The wolf eventually stopped and slipped back into the woods. (AP Photo/Tim Bartlett)
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In this June 7, 2013 photo provided by the Chicago Zoological Society, a male addax antelope calf is seen with his mother, Sara, 4, shortly after his birth at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. He weighed 19 pounds. The zoo called the birth significant. The worldÃs wild addax population now consists of about 300 animals. Most of them live in Niger. (AP Photo/Chicago Zoological Society, Jim Schulz)
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Isaboo, a 7-year-old Chinese Crested, basks in the sun after competing in the 25th annual World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair on Friday, June 21, 2013, in Petaluma, Calif. Isaboo won third place in the mutt category. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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The eye of Dari, the oldest elephant at Hogle Zoo is shown on June 20, 2013 in Salt Lake City. Dari is having a birthday Saturday. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Scott Sommerdorf )
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In this photo released by San Diego Zoo Safari Park, Monroe, a Western lowland gorilla celebrates his second birthday with a multicolored ice cake made of fruits and vegetables adorned with yam and banana frosting, ginger leaves, jacaranda and hibiscus flowers, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in San Diego, Calif., on Monday, June 17, 2013. Monroe was born at the Safari Park on 2011. Western lowland gorillas are listed as critically endangered. (AP Photo/ Ken Bohn, San Diego Zoo Safari Park)
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A gray whale attracts attention as it cruises the waters WednesdayJune 19, 2013, near the Purdy Bridge in Gig Harbor, Wash. The plume above it near the head is produced as it breathes. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Alan Berner)
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Rizky a 11 day-old orangutan lies in an incubator at a nursery of Surabaya Zoo in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Saturday, June 22, 2013. Orangutan populations in Indonesia's Borneo and Sumatra island are facing severe threats from habitat loss, illegal logging, fires and poaching. Conservationists predicted that without immediate action, orangutans are likely to be the first great ape to become extinct in the wild. (AP Photo/Trisnadi)
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SPCA wildlife volunteer, Denise Cameron holds an adult painted turtle that has cracks in its shell aftter being run over by a vehicle. It is being cared for at the SPCA in Tonawanda, N.Y., and is expected to recover, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/The Buffalo News, Sharon Cantillon)
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Hiroyuki Ota plays with a prairie dog Cookie at a park in Tokyo, Sunday, June 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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A shoebill is displayed at Chiba Zoological Park nearTokyo, Sunday, June 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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A new Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja) sit on their new cage at Summit Zoo in Panama City, Monday, June 17, 2013. The new Harpy Eagle named 'Panama' is 3 years and 8 months old, was born in the Miami Zoo and is replacing an old eagle that died last year. The Harpy Eagle is Panama's national bird. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
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Geoffroy's tamarin monkey (Saguinus geoffroyi) sits on their cage at Summit zoo in Panama City, Monday, June 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
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Two Hippopotamus enjoy a snack on a hot day at the zoo in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. The temperatures reached 30 degree Celsius, 86 degree Fahrenheit. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
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This photo provided by Texas Parks and Wildlife shows young long-eared owl at Davis Mountains State Park , on June 9, 2013. The Nature Conservancy of Texas associate director of science Rich Kostecke says the smallish owls are not known to nest in Texas. (AP Photo/Texas Parks and Wildlife, Mark Lockwood)
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In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 photo, a month-old liliger cubs walk in Novosibirsk Zoo. The cubs' mother is Zita, a liger - half-lioness, half-tiger, and their father is a lion, Sam. (AP Photo /Ilnar Salakhiev)
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Zita, a liger, half-lioness, half-tiger, walks with her month-old liliger cub in the Russian East Siberian city of Novosibirsk Zoo, on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 . The cub's father is a lion, Sam. (AP Photo/Ilnar Salakhiev)
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In this June 11, 2013 photo, Kaydee, a female red panda, bites into a pear piece at the Scovill Zoo in Decatur, Ill. The panda was recently acquired from the Oklahoma City Zoo. Zoo officials are working to pair Kaydee, with Clay, the zoo's male red panda. AP Photo/Herald & Review, Jim Bowling)
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Mother of the new bonobo baby, right, Kiri holds onto her son, Mobali, while snacking on some fruit during the gender reveal and naming celebration for Mobali at the Memphis Zoo, Friday, June 21, 2013 in Memphis, Tenn. All the bonobos were released into their outdoor exhibit to find gift boxes they could unwrapped and blue streamers revealed the baby bonobo's gender. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Kyle Kurlick)
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Walle poses for a portrait while competing in the 25th annual World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair on Friday, June 21, 2013, in Petaluma, Calif. The 4-year-old beagle, boxer and bassett hound mix went on to win top honors. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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This photo released by the Cleveland Animal Protective League shows a kitten and Noland, right, a puppy, snuggling up together Wednesday, June 19, 2013 in Cleveland. A cat already caring for four newborn kittens now is nursing an orphaned week-old pit bull puppy. (AP Photo/Cleveland Animal Protective League)
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Sixteen-day-old, Tien, an endangered clouded leopard cub is held by staff biologist Kadie Burrone during his afternoon feeding time at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Wash., Monday, June 17, 2013. The 4.6 pound cub, born May 1, can be viewed during feedings in the zoo's Cub Den. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Janet Jensen)
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Kevan Yeats swims after his cat Momo to safety as the flood waters sweep him downstream after submerging his truck in High River, Alberta on Thursday, June 20, 2013 after the Highwood River overflowed its banks. Hundreds of people have been evacuated with volunteers and emergency crews helping to aid stranded residents. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jordan Verlage)
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In this Thursday, June 13, 2013 photo, Abby Dunlap holds her adopted two-year-old Shih Tzu named Chloe while at home, Vienna, Va., Chloe was rescued last year after being stabbed six times with a steak knife. The owner's son was off his medication and thought the dog was the devil. (AP Photo/The Washington Times, Andrew Harnik)
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In this Thursday, June 20, 2013 photo, Hannah Johnson holds up her daughter Raine Harrison, 5, to take a closer look at an endangered African penguin in the Cold Water Quest exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. The exhibit, one of six different aquarium galleries, also houses four beluga whales. (AP Photo/Jaime Henry-White)
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In this Thursday, June 20, 2013 photo, Max Lawrence, 3, takes a closer look at an African clawed frog in the "Frogs - A Chorus of Colors" exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. This temporary exhibit, regarded as the most advanced traveling frog exhibition in the U.S., features 15 species of frogs. (AP Photo/Jaime Henry-White)
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In this Thursday, June 20, 2013 photo, a giant Pacific octopus sticks to the tank glass in the Cold Water Quest exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. The exhibit, one of six different aquarium galleries, also houses beluga whales and endangered African penguins. (AP Photo/Jaime Henry-White)
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An orangutan is mirrored in a glass pane of its enclosure at Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany, Thursday June 20, 2013. (AP Photo/ dpa,Nicolas Armer)
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The new born Californian sea lions Nora, Nelly and Nick smooch with their mother Sandy during nice summer weather in their enclosure at the zoo of Hellabrunn in Munich, southern Germany, Friday, June 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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In this June 12, 2013 photo, the infant gibbon named Duke hangs from the hands of animal keeper Rachael Campbell at the Greensboro Science Center in Greensboro, N.C. (AP Photo/News & Record, Joseph Rodriguez)
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In this Thursday, June 20, 2013 photo, children take a closer look at the Ocean Voyager exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. The exhibit is the largest aquarium habitat in the world and was specially designed to house whale sharks, the largest fish species in the world. (AP Photo/Jaime Henry-White)
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A Black Crowned Crane (Balearica pavonina) looks around in the zoo of Hellabrunn in Munich, southern Germany, on Friday, June 21, 2013. The bird is common in the West African savannah and the Sahel zone. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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A Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) sits in a cage at the Summit zoo in Panama City, Monday, June 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
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A dog, named Sare drinks water from a fountain in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Hot weather has set in with temperatures rising up to 34 Celsius (93 Fahrenheit ) in Belgrade. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Kevan Yeats poses with his cat Momo at his parents' house near Okotoks, Alberta on Friday, June 21, 2013. Yeats and Momo narrowly avoided death when they leapt from Yeats' truck in flowing flood waters in High River, Alberta on Thursday. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jordan Verlage)
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This photo released by the Cleveland Animal Protective League shows Lurleen, the nursing mother and Noland the puppy snuggling up Wednesday, June 19, 2013, in Cleveland. Lurleen already is caring for four newborn kittens and now is nursing the orphaned week-old pit bull puppy in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Cleveland Animal Protective League)