Photos: Animal shots of the week
World's ugliest dog competition, news zoo animals and tech turtles. It's all in this week's animal roundup.
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Josie, a Chinese Crested from Tucson, Arizona, waits before the start of the World's Ugliest Dog Contest, at the Sonoma-Marin Fair, Friday, June 20, 2014, in Petaluma, Calif. (AP Photo/George Nikitin)
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A Hamadryas baboon cub rides on its mother's back in their enclosure at the zoo in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Sanaa Zoo is the one of just two in Yemen that still keeps Hamadryas baboons which are not very rare and are easy to breed. The natural habitat for Hamadryas baboons is Africa, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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Stacey Myers, of Yuba City, Calif., holds her two-year-old golden Bengal cat, as Jeff Gordon, right, poses for pictures between practices for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race Friday, June 20, 2014, in Sonoma, Calif. The cat is named Zeus Bartlet after her boyfriend. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Jatarion Hines, 10, reaches to pet the horse, Eppie, owned by Darrell Hunter during Juneteenth celebrations at Georgetown Park, Jacksonville, N.C., Saturday, June 21, 2014. (AP Photo/The Jacksonville Daily News, John Althouse)
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Conneaut police Officer Tim Rose conducts a demonstration with police dog Ghost at the Conneaut Safety Town program on Thursday, June 19, 2014, in Conneaut, Ohio. (AP Photo/The Star-Beacon, Warren Dillaway)
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In this June 18, 2014 photo provided by the Lincoln Park Zoo Lincoln Park Zoo and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials release twenty ornate box turtles into the wild in northern Illinois as part of efforts to restore natural grasslands and prairies. Before their release, they got unique markings and transmitters so they can be tracked by researchers. (AP Photo/Courtesy the Lincoln Park Zoo)
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This undated photo provided by Animal Planet shows Jackson Galaxy, host of Animal PlanetÃs "My Cat From Hell," with a cat named Lux, in Portland, Ore. If you watched the TV reality show "My Cat From Hell" this past weekend, you saw the feline behaviorist Galaxy trying to tame Lux, a cat that became notorious after its owner placed a 9-1-1 call about Lux attacking the couple's baby and then chasing the family into a bedroom. The show's ending is a cliff-hanger. (AP Photo/Animal Planet)
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A woman scratces the head of Pig, a dog born with severe deformities, at a park in Alabaster, Ala., on Tuesday, June 17, 2014. Found with littermates in woods near Atlanta, the 8-month-old mutt was adopted by Kim Dillenbeck of Helena, Ala. Pig runs and plays with other animals despite have a shortened spine, misshappen hips and no neck. She hops like a frog to stand up and walks with a high-shouldered gait that resembles a gorilla. Unable to swing her head side to side, Pig spins her whole body to see what's beside her. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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A new born elephant baby (name and gender so far unknown), third child of mother Indi explores the compound at the Zoo in Zurich, Switzerland, for the first time Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Steffen Schmidt)
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A cat sits on a window air conditioning unit Tuesday, June 17, 2014, at a St. Joseph, Mich., home. (AP Photo/The Herald-Palladium, Don Campbell)
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"King Croc," right, a saltwater crocodile and his female companion of 20 years now, reside in a special enclosure at Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. At about five meters long (16 feet) and weighing over 750 kilograms (1653 pounds), the 40-year-old crocodile arrived in Dubai from a crocodile farm in Australia. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
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A zookeeper feeds a week-old Javan lutung , also known as Javan langur at a Bali zoo, Indonesia, Thursday, June 19, 2014. The Javan langur baby was born on June 13. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
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A pangolin carries its baby at a Bali zoo, Indonesia, Thursday, June 9, 2014. The pangolin baby was born on May 31. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
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The long-legged freshwater heron wades his way along the beach ,Wednesday June 18, 2014, at Cedar Creek Lake in Lincoln County near Crab Orchard, Ky. (AP Photo/The Advocate-Messenger, Clay Jackson)
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Audrey Bondurant, a student at Lone Oak Middle School, gives her dog some needed attention at the McCracken County Humane Society's Pals and Paws Day Camp graduation on Friday, June 20, 2014 in Paducah, Ky. Each camper is teamed with a dog and is responsible for training, grooming and strengthening the human to canine relationship. (AP Photo/The Paducah Sun, Ellen O'Nan)
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Peanut, a two-year-old mutt poses in front of the winning trophies, after winning the World's Ugliest Dog Contest, at the Sonoma-Marin Fair, Friday, June 20, 2014, in Petaluma, Calif. Peanut is from North Carolina. (AP Photo/George Nikitin)
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In this Wednesday, June 18, 2014 photo, a young black bear rests in a tree in Mount Morris, Ill. The bear has been spotted more than a dozen times in the past few weeks as he wanders through northwestern Illinois. (AP Photo/Sauk Valley Media, Earleen Hinton)
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A dog decorated with Brazilian colors sits on the curb as fans walk by prior to the group A World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at the Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Brazil, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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Tourists hold a sloth in Manaus, Brazil, Sunday, June 22, 2014. Manaus is one of 12 cities hosting matches during the 2014 soccer World Cup. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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In this May 31, 2014 photo provided by the Chicago Zoological Society, a male calf born on May 31 has some family time with his mom Leoti, left, and sister Hope at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Bison are the symbol of the Chicago Zoological Society because they are one of the first North American conservation success stories. (AP Photo/Chicago Zoological Society, Jim Schulz)
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In this Friday, June 13, 2014, photograph, Mona Lisa gets to know her baby, born at the Memphis Zoo the day before, i Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Karen Pulfer Focht)
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In this June 15, 2014 photo, Tara Dennis, 21, poses for a photo with a cat after Erie firefighters rescued her after she got stuck while trying to rescue the cat that was stuck in a tree in the 1000 block of West Eighth Street in Erie, Pa. (AP Photo/Erie Times-News, Jack Hanrahan)
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In this Saturday, June 14, 2014 photo rhinoceros Manuela and a donkey in the same enclosure at the Tbilisi Zoo, Georgia. The zoo keepers tried to help Manuela the rhino who was feeling depressed by putting the donkey in the same enclosure. The strategy worked and the animals have been living peacefully together. (AP Photo/ Shakh Aivazov)
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Armadillo Taka snuffles on a ball during the TV recording of an oracle for the upcoming match Germany vs Ghana at the World Cup 2014 in the zoo in Erfurt, Germany, Thursday, June 19, 2014. The TV station kept the result secret. An armadillo is the official mascot of FIFA World Cup 2014. The match will take place , on Saturday, June 21. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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Jack Russel dog Lucie jumps into the water during the dog diving competition during the International pedigree dog and purebred cat exhibition in Erfurt, central Germany, Saturday, June 14, 2014. 3,833 dogs and 240 cats from 25 countries take part at the exhibition. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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Visitors watch an elephant bathing in the newly opened elephant park in the Zurich Zoo in Zurich, Switzerland, Sunday, June 8. 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Patrick B. Kraemer)
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In this Saturday, June 14, 2014 photo, a mother black bear wanders with her two spring cubs near the parking garage along Alumni Drive on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen)
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A newborn Indian rhinoceros, front, stands with his mother, Niki, rear, as she grazes at the Oklahoma City Zoo in Oklahoma City, Sunday, June 22, 2014. The as yet unnamed rhino was born at 5:20 pm at the zoo on June 21, 2014. The male calf is the fourth Indian rhino born at the Zoo since the Zoo added the species in 1981, but the first offspring for seven-year-old Niki. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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A newborn Indian rhinoceros, right, nuzzles his mother, Niki, left, in a mud wallow at the Oklahoma City Zoo in Oklahoma City, Sunday, June 22, 2014. The as yet unnamed rhino was born at 5:20 pm at the zoo on June 21, 2014. The male calf is the fourth Indian rhino born at the Zoo since the Zoo added the species in 1981, but the first offspring for seven-year-old Niki. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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In this image provided by the San Diego Zoo, Harriet, a Masai giraffe, attends to her four-day-old calf at the San Diego Zoo Thursday June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/San Diego Zoo, Ken Bohn)
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A blue-and-yellow Macaw parrot sits in his enclosure in the zoo in Gotha, Germany, Sunday, June 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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Four month-old female orangutan Olivia plays with wood wool during warm and sunny weather in their enclosure at the Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, southern Germany, Thursday, June 12, 2014. (AP Photo/dpa, Rebecca Krizak)
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A six month-old polar bear jumps into the water during warm and sunny weather in their enclosure at the Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, southern Germany, Thursday, June 12, 2014. (AP Photo/dpa, Rebecca Krizak)
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Amur tiger twin cubs (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Siberian tiger, play in front of their mother Tiga in the zoological garden Tierpark in Gotha, Germany, Sunday, June 22, 2014. The two Amur tiger babies were born on April 13, 2014. The Amur tiger is the largest living felid and ranks among the biggest felids to ever exist. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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One of the Amur tiger twin cubs , stands in front of the mother Tiga in the zoological garden Tierpark in Gotha, Germany, Sunday, June 22, 2014. The two Amur tiger babies were born on April 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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Michaela Freimuth of Germany presents her large poodle 'Bouno Patito' to jury members during the poodle competition at the German international dog grooming championship in Erfurt, Germany, Sunday, June 15, 2014. The competition is part of the International pedigree dog and purebred cat exhibition this weekend. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)