Photos: Animal shots of the week
Unique animals rolling around in the snow, dogs dressing up for the Mystic Krewe of Barkus Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, cats in their own show, and a clean elephant -all in this week's animal gallery.
Animal shots of the week
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 an unidentified polar bear in the newly inaugurated Arctic Circle, in Copenhagen Zoo. The area will be open to the public from Feb 5. (AP Photo/Polfoto, Stine Bidstrup) DENMARK OUT
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In this photo taken on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 The polar bears Noel and Ivan in the newly inaugurated Arctic Circle, in Copenhagen Zoo. The area will be open to the public from Feb 5. (AP Photo/Polfoto, Stine Bidstrup) DENMARK OUT
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A tiger rolls in the snow at the Buffalo Zoo as the area experiences cold winter weather in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
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A tiger rolls in the snow at the Buffalo Zoo as the area experiences cold winter weather in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
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Swans swim in a partially frozen Neris river as the temperature drops to -18 degrees Celsius (0 Fahrenheit) in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
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A composite photo shows a polar bear who wallows in the snow at the zoo in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Sven Hoppe)
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Fog looms as a cat crosses the street Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, in Houston. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty)
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Boston judge James Reardon inspects Sabrina, of Alberta Canada, during the International Cat Show and food drive for the Oregon Food Bank, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in Portland, Ore. The show is ends Sunday, Jan. 27. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Thomas Boyd)
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An 11-year-old female chihuahua, named "Grizett" wears a fashion item during an event in Tokyo, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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Jenna McMullen walks her dog Abigail during the Mystic Krewe of Barkus parade Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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Jeffie Lanter pushes her dog, Chico, wearing a crawfish costume, in the Mystic Krewe of Barkus Mardi Gras parade on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, in New Orleans. The annual parade is made up of dressed up dogs and their owners. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Costumed dogs ride in the Mystic Krewe of Barkus Mardi Gras parade on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, in New Orleans. The annual parade is made up of dressed up dogs and their owners. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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A Dogue de Bordeaux, dressed as a beauty pageant winner, watches the Mystic Krewe of Barkus Mardi Gras parade on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, in New Orleans. The annual parade is made up of dressed up dogs and their owners. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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A cat sits on a painted road stripe Thursday afternoon Jan. 24, 2013, in Salina, Kan. (AP Photo/Salina Journal, Tom Dorsey)
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Humane Society of North Iowa executive director Sybil Soukup plays with Goldie at the facility on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 in Mason City. Abandoned, forced to eat her own tail to survive, the golden retriever is recovering at the northern Iowa shelter. Goldie's mutilated tail was surgically amputated. She entered the shelter at 46 pounds, about 20 less than normal. She's gained 6 pounds so far. Shelter officials hope she'll be adopted once she fully recovers. (AP Photo/The Globe Gazette, Jeff Heinz)
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In a Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 photo provided by the Memphis Zoo, Marilyn, a 19-year-old reticulated giraffe, strokes the head of her newborn daughter Maliki. The 5 1/2 foot tall baby was born at the zoo on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Memphis Zoo, Brannon Moore)
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A cat sits in a small cloth house at the Union County Animal Control shelter Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 in Cobden. (Aaron Eisenhauer / The Southern)
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Summer Strong holds her daughter Madison as she feeds one of the giraffes at the Gulf Breeze Zoo in Gulf Breeze, Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Northwest Florida Daily News, Devon Ravine)
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Roland Marcum watches one of the otters at the Gulf Breeze Zoo in Gulf Breeze, Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Northwest Florida Daily News, Devon Ravine)
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In this Jan. 21, 2013 photo provided by The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, a right whale named Equator, after the white scar across her back from being entangled in fishing gear in 2008, and her calf are seen swimming offshore of Cumberland Island, Ga. The endangered right whale that Georgia wildlife biologists once freed from fishing line caught around its midsection has returned off the coast four years later with a newborn calf in tow. Whale watchers at the state Department of Natural Resources are celebrating, saying it's the first time a whale saved from entanglement in Georgia waters has come back to give birth. (AP Photo/The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission)
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A circus artist performs with dogs during the opening concert in the new, 2013 season in Ukraine's National Circus in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan.24, 2013. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Western Lowland Gorilla Kigali plays in front of his mother, Rwanda, Wednesday at the Gulf Breeze Zoo in Gulf Breeze, Florida. the young gorilla was originally cared for by zoo staff but was reunited with his mother in October 2012 and turned one year old today. Jan. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Northwest Florida Daily News, Devon Ravine)
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Thani, left, a 3-year-old white-cheeked gibbon recently met Kekasih, a 4-year-old orangutan, while exploring the Tropic World Asia exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Guests may occasionally see Thani jump from the high trees in the indoor habitat to the large peninsula to visit his new friend. (AP Photo/Chicago Zoological Society, Jim Schulz)
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A participant rides his dog sled during an international dog sled race "Zavirukha" in the village of Raubichi, on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. About 130 athletes from Belarus, Russia, Latvia and Lithuania take part in competitions. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Seven-year-old Carter Langdon of Macomb Township admires a flowerhorn cichlid fish, while Ben Kamphuis, a Michigan State University zoo and aquarium management graduate student checks out the fish in an adjacent tank at the Belle Isle Aquarium in Detroit, Jan. 26, 2013. Opened on August 18, 1904, the Belle Isle Aquarium is the oldest operating aquarium in America, albeit with limited hours of operation. The flowerhorn cichlid is a fish, which no longer exists in the wild. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, John T. Greilick)
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A horse runs through a forest path covered with snow near Bosnian town of Banovici, 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.(AP Photo/Amel Emric )
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In a photo provided by Ringling Bros. Circus, elephants walk into downtown Birmingham, Ala., saluting the University of Alabama Crimson Tide for winning the 2013 National Championship Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. Asia, a female Asian elephant weighing more than 8,500 lbs., sports a hounds tooth fedora in honor of the legendary coach Bear Bryant, as they walk towards the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex.(AP Photo/Ringling Bros. Circus, Gary Bogdon)
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A jogger runs with two dogs in the snow along the north side of Lakeshore Drive in Chicago, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. The 1.1 inches that settled on Windy City streets and sidewalks marked the latest first seasonal snowfall of at least an inch in the Midwest metropolis since at least 1884, when records were first kept, National Weather Service forecaster Matt Friedlein said. The previous record was set on Jan. 17, 1899. Friday also broke Chicago's longest streak of consecutive days without an inch of snow. The city went 335 days, or about 11 months, without at least an inch, Friedlein said. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Kelly Anderson, left, and Beverly Skinner, wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, release female bald eagle Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 near Hobson, Mont. Anderson found the injured eagle two weeks ago. The eagle was taken by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to the Raptor Center in Bozeman where it was rehabilitated. (AP Photo/The Great Falls Tribune, Larry Beckner) NO SALES
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Trainer George Hannaford, right, scrubs down Cindy, the Asian elephants back, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, outside of the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. Cindy will be one of the animals featured this weekend at the Al Amin Shrine Circus. (AP Photo/Corpus Christi Caller-Times)