Photos: Animal shosts of the week
Dogs play in the snow and sunshine, a panther is released back in the wild and birds soar across the country - it's all in this week's animal gallery.
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In this March 11, 2014 photo, Kadee Mae glides through the snow at the Janesville Youth Sports Complex on custom made skis attached to her cart in Janesville, Wis. The 10-year-old border collie had a spinal problem that left her rear legs paralyzed. (AP Photo/The Janesville Gazette, Dan Lassiter)
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Dogs and their owners play under sunny skies at Ocean Beach Dog Beach Wednesday, March 12, 2014, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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This photo provided by the San Diego Zoo Safari Park shows the animal care staff tending to a one-day-old baby girl gorilla who was born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park after an emergency c-section procedure Wednesday March, 12, 2014. (AP Photo/San Diego Zoo Safari Park)
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A dog sits in the sun in Bruges, western Belgium, Thursday, March 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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In this Feb. 20, 2014 file photo, Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy pets Hank at spring training baseball practice, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, in Phoenix. Hank, the bedraggled ball of fur who wandered into the Brewers' spring training complex back on President's Day looking for one more chance, will head to Milwaukee and his new home on Sunday, March 16, 2014.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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This Sunday Feb. 9, 2014 photo issued by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) on Wednesday March 12, 2014, shows Sumatran tigress Melati with her as yet unsexed triplet Sumatran tiger cubs which were born at the zoo to the five-year-old Sumatran tigress Melati on Feb. 3, 2014 following a 106-day pregnancy. (AP Photo/Zoological Society of London)
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This is an undated handout photo issued by the National Trust, via PA on Monday March 10, 2014 of Jock VI, the new kitten who has taken up residence at Sir Winston Churchill's former country home of Chartwell southern England to honour a request made by the ex-prime minister and his family. For his 88th birthday in 1962, Churchill was given a marmalade cat named Jock after one of his private secretaries, Sir John "Jock" Colville, who gave him the pet. (AP Photo/Iain Carter/National Trust/PA)
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In this March 11, 2013 photo released by the Detroit Zoological Society, a newborn aardvark named Kaatie is shown at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich. (AP Photo/Detroit Zoological Society, Tom Roy)
Animal shots of the week
In this March 11, 2013 photo released by the Detroit Zoological Society, a newborn aardvark named Kaatie is shown at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich. (AP Photo/Detroit Zoological Society, Tom Roy)
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In a photo from March 1, 2014, Second Chance Mushers' Sarah Dobbrastine plays with Luna following a sled ride Saturday at Bowers Harbor Vineyards in Traverse City, Mich. (AP Photo/Traverse City Record-Eagle, Jan-Michael Stump)
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Rodney Ranis takes advantage of the warm sunny weather by playing with his 5-month-old boxer, Lola, at Eisenhower Park in Augusta, Ga., Monday, March 10, 2014. (AP Photo/The Augusta Chronicle, Michael Holahan)
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A still unnamed polar bear baby plays at the zoo in Bremerhaven, Germany, Wednesday March 12, 2014. (AP Photo/dpa,Carmen Jaspersen)
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A still unnamed polar bear baby plays with its mother Valeska at the zoo in Bremerhaven, Germany, Wednesday March 12, 2014. The female polar bear cub was born on Dec. 16, 2013 and now leaves its birthing cave for the first time. (AP Photo/dpa,Carmen Jaspersen)
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"What a great day," said Paul Fishley of Hayden Lake, Idaho as he took his dogs, from left, Jazzy, Smokey and Maggie for a swim in Hayden Lake, Idaho, Thursday, March 13, 2014. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Kathy Plonka)
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Dallas Seavey sits under the burled arch in Nome, Alaska after winning the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen)
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Robert Sorlie, from Hurdal, Norway, mushes along the frozen Bering Sea coastal ice just a few miles outside Nome, Alaska, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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One horned Rhinoceros graze at the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary about 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of Gauhati, Assam, India, Thursday, March 6, 2014. Assam is home to the world's largest concentration of the rare rhino. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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A cedar waxwing flies past the Berkshire County Superior Courthouse in Pittsfield, Mass. Thursday March 13, 2014. (AP Photo/The Berkshire Eagle, Ben Garver)
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Rep. Oscar Denton, D-Vicksburg, marvels as how "Honey," an Eastern Screech Owl, is able to almost rotate her head 180 degrees as he visits the Jackson Zoo live display in the Capitol rotunda in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, March 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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A Cedar Waxwing bird takes off after feeding on berries on a tree in Central Park near Iroquois Lake in Schenectady, N.Y. on Thursday, March 13, 2014. (AP Photo/The Daily Gazette, Peter R. Barber)
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Visitors to the Bissell Maple Farm enjoy a ride in a horsedrawn wagon on Saturday March 8, 2014, during the Maple Madness Tour stop in Trumbull Township, Ohio. (AP Photo/Ashtabula Star Beacon, Warren Dillaway)
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In this photo provided by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, wildlife officials release, on Monday, March 10, 2014, in Labelle, Fla., an endangered panther that was rehabilitated after a car crash in May 2013. (AP Photo/Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tim Donovan)
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Three baby white lions with their alert mother, Azira at a private zoo in Borysew, Poland, on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Born Jan.28, they will be let out into the open air in April and will be available for visitors to see in May. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Three baby white lions with their mother, Azira sit in their enclosure at a private zoo in Borysew, Poland, on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Animal shots of the week
Three baby white lions with their mother, Azira sit in their enclosure at a private zoo in Borysew, Poland, on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Oregon Zoo elephant curator Bob Lee strokes the bottom of Lily's trunk while the zoo's youngest Asian elephant plays in a newly unveiled portion of the Elephant Lands exhibit on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/The Columbian, Stover E. Harger III)
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This Thursday, March 6, 2014, photo shows Pig, the red faced eastern screech owl as it is weighed at The Virginia Wildlife Center in Waynesboro, Va. (AP Photo/News-Virginian, Lauren Berg)
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Arely Licerio, 7, of Fort Worth, Texas, poses on a St. Patrick's Day-decorated steer during the Cowtown Goes Green event at the Fort Worth Stockyards in Fort Worth, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Stockyards Station hosted the St. Patrick's Day celebration, which featured free activities for kids including pony rides, a petting zoo, face painting, games and contests with Radio Disney. (Ian McVea/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT)
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A dog looks at the part of the 1,600 paper pandas, and 200 paper Taiwanese bears, created by French artist Paulo Grangeon, in front of the Chiang Kai-shek memorial Hall during the exhibition called "Pandas on Tour" in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, March 15, 2014. (AP Photo/ Chiang Ying-ying)