The 50 Best Animal Photos in 2011

sanela — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:58:51 +0000

Is there anything cuter than animal photos? For all you people for love animals, and have at least one pet whom you cherish most than anything in the world, here goes a photo gallery depicting the absolute best animal photos from the 2011. It’s been adorable, inspiring, sad and moving, but overall very busy year for animal photojournalism. Enojy!

1. Macaque Monkey Taking a Picture of Himself

Award-winning photographer David Slater had his camera hijacked by a crested black macaque in Indonesia. The crested black macaque is extremely rare and endangered which makes these pictures all the more special.

2. Venezuelan Boy And His Cat

A boy plays with a cat while his father works on their shack at the slum of Las Mayas in Caracas, Venezuela on May 31.

3. Researchers in Panda Costumes

Researchers dressed in panda costumes put a panda cub into a basket before transferring it to a new living environment at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center on February 20. The panda costumes are part of a new plan to reintroduce captive giant pandas back into the wild

4. Faithful Dog

A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day next to the grave of her owner, Cristina Maria Cesario Santana, who died in catastrophic landslides in Brazil.

5. Dog Rescue

Japan Coast Guard members rescue a dog that survived the Japanese earthquake after spending three weeks at sea!

6. Black Rhino Move

A black rhino is transported by helicopter in South Africa. This was all part of a relocation plan for black rhinos, meant to move the endangered species to less populated areas so that they have a better shot at survival.

7. Sheep Rescue

A sheep is rescued from a farm in Vermont after flash floods left it stranded due to flooding from Hurricane Irene.

8. Two-headed Turtle

An African spurred tortoise with two heads and five legs is displayed in Slovakia.

9. Proud Tigress Iris With Her Baby

Iris licks her 7-week-old cub during one of their first walks in an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

10. Floods in Thailand

A flood-affected resident stands with her dogs at her flooded house in Thailand.

11. Kitten is given oxygen

A kitten is given oxygen after being saved in a house fire in Missoula, Montana. “He wasn’t breathing too well,” said Firefighter Brett Cunniff, who scooped up the tiny body and gently carried it outside into the fresh, cool air. “So I put some oxygen on him.” Minutes later, the kitten was in the back of an ambulance, cradled in the arms of emergency medical technician Paige Ostanhowski, who held an oxygen mask to a button nose turning a healthy shade of pink. He survived and is doing well.

12. Kitten from Kosovo

A cat sits on top of a Kosovo Serb man’s hat in front of German soliders at a village in Jagnjenica, Serbia.

13. Baby Pandas

12 giant panda cubs lie in a crib at the Chengdu Research Base in China.

14. Ciuchcia Lives Despite All

Ciuchcia, a four-month-old dog, chases a cat in a courtyard at a shelter for homeless animals in Poland. Ciuchcia’s rear legs were paralyzed after he was physically abused and abandoned with his two siblings on a train track. The dog survived despite being run over by a number of trains.

15. Janus Feline

“Frank and Louie” is the world’s longest surviving “janus” feline. He’s 12-years-old. The cat, who’s name is “Frank and Louie”, has two mouths, two noses and three eyes. Frank and Louie have one brain, so the faces react in unison.

16. Tornado in Missouri

Carrie Clark and Ted Garver remove her cat Tucker from her destroyed apartment in Joplin, Missouri. Clark said she last saw him moments before Sunday’s deadly tornado and had found him only minutes before under a bed frame.

17. Baby Hypo and His Mother

A baby hippo and his mother Nicole are pictured at the Berlin Zoo.

18. Tyson Is Getting His Teeth Done

Tyson receives dental treatment at a veterinary clinic in Medellin, Colombia. Man, I wouldn’t like to be near him when the anesthesia lets him up.

19. Chimp Feeds a Tiger Cub

Two-year-old chimpanzee “Do Do” feeds milk to “Aorn”, a 60-day-old tiger cub. Aren’t they just adorable?

20. Heidi

Famous cross-eyed opossum Heidi inspects her new home at the newly built tropical hall of the Zoo in Leipzig, Germany. Unfortunately, Heidi passed away in September.

21. Mama And Baby Bear

A Kamchatka Brown Bear and one of her two three-month-old cubs share a kiss in Hamburg, Germany.

22. Baby Orangutan

A zoo keeper holds a 9-month-old baby orangutan orphan named Boo as he plays with a toy.

23. Always Eat Your Vegetables

A one year-old gorilla named Uzuri eats a salad at a zoo in Germany.

24. Zukhro and Vadik

Zukhro, an employee of a Russian city zoo, walks with Vadik, an 18-month-old male lion.

25. Strange Crop from a Rice Field

Ryo Taira lifts a porpoise out of a flooded rice field after it was swept by the tsunami and earthquake in Sendai, Japan.

26. Floods in Japan

Japan soldiers rescue a pet dog and a woman at a village which was flooded due to typhoon Roke in Japan in September.

27. Three Abandoned Dogs

Abandoned dogs look through the window of a flooded temple in Ayutthaya province in Thailand.

28. Seven Young Lions

From the photographer Mrs. Wai Chun:
“Taken in June this year during a game drive at Nakuru National Park in Kenya. Rounding a bend on the track I came upon not one but seven of these magnificent young lions draped across the branches of an acacia tree. Some are dozing and some are looking disdainfully at me. I was transfixed by these superb, regal creatures. What a privilege for me to have witnessed this amazing moment.”

29. Little Girls Saves Baby Lamb

A little girl saves a baby lamb from a farm near the village of Kirkjubaejarklaustur in Iceland. People living next to the glacier where the Grimsvotn volcano burst into life were most affected. Ash shut out daylight and smothered buildings and vehicles.

30. Danielle and Her Squirrel

From photographer Amy Sly:
“Amid the crowds of protestors and media in Zuccotti Park, this little guy was just hanging out on Danielle’s shoulder. She found the squirrel a few months ago under a tree near her house after a heavy storm. Its legs were broken and a veterinarian told her it likely wouldn’t recover. Instead of putting the squirrel down, Danielle adopted it and nursed it back to health. Now they go everywhere together. The squirrel’s name is Hazelnut, she likes peanut butter, and her leash is made of braided hemp.”

31. Harper, Our Little Fighter

Harper the Pitbull puppy was given away in a trash bag. She was so afflicted by a rigor-mortis-like condition that she could barely move. Today, she’s walking almost like a normal dog. “The whole world was against her, but she’s such a fighter,” said Erica Daniel, Harper’s foster mom. “She’s a blessing. She’s awesome.”

32. Kangaroo Cures Depression

An Oklahoma woman suffering from depression has found solace in the company of a kangaroo, but local city officials worry that the therapy pet — a partially paralyzed kangaroo — could become a public safety risk. In the end, the two have been allowed to live together. Happily ever after.

33. Medo Hugs a Dog

Medo the bear plays with the Logar family dog in Podvrh village in central Slovenia.

34. Mother and Daughter

A 7-year-old female elephant named Laxmi reaches with her trunk to touch her 13-month old daughter in India.

35. Baby Dolphin

A baby dolphin with its umbilical cord still attached was found beached near Montevideo city, Uruguay. Luckily, a rescue organization got involved and and nursed the little guy back to health.

36. A Friendly Chat

Mammals keeper Kylie Hackshall gets close to a baby spotted-tail quoll.

37. Finally Safe

A woman comforts her dog during an aftershock at an evacuation center for pets and their owners in Japan.

38. Little Red Riding Hood

Jonna Baquillas holds her pet, a rescued cat named Rue, for an event to benefit the Philippine Animal Welfare Society in Manilla, Philippines.

39. Loneliness

A dog wanders around the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.

40. Who’s There?

A dog looks out from a window as a woman comes out from the door of her house in the ancient city of Bhaktapur near Nepal’s capital.

41. Sorrow

Alex, a seven-year-old German shepherd, guards the body of her mother, Lexus. Lexus passed away in a tornado on April 27 in Concord, Alabama.

42. Jaguar Cub on the Scales

Christina Kosorygina weighs a one-month-old jaguar cub at the Leningrad city zoo in St. Petersburg, Russia.

43. Ginger Discrimination

This little orange seal has been ostracized by his fellows for being ginger. Also, unfortunately, he is almost blind. He was found waiting for his mother under a log on Tyuleniy Island in Russia. He was picked up and taken by staff at a dolphinarium to keep him from anymore emotional stress. Good news though, the seal is doing much better. Now named Nafanya – after a lookalike Soviet cartoon character – the seal was given VIP treatment and has now moved into a plush new home at the country’s leading aquarium.

44. Petting En Passant

A Slovenian soldier pets a puppy on the road in the village of Rudare near Mitrovica.

45. Escaping the Flood

A pet bear sits among residents who escaped to higher ground from their flooded village in the Tando Allahyar district of Pakistan.

46. Cat and Mouse

Jess, a seven-year-old female cat, looks on as a mouse runs by in a back yard in Gosport, England.

47. Paralyzed Lion

A veterinarian and an animal shelter owner in Sao Paulo, Brazil take care of a paralyzed lion. The lion, who’s name is Ariel, was born with a degenerative disease that has left him unable to use his four legs for the past year.

48. Forest Fire

Misty Pate loads her dogs Abby and Roani along with her other pets in her truck as she prepares to evacuate from a forest fire in Springerville, Arizona.

49. Riot Dog

Loukanikos, the riot dog, watches as riot policemen try to avoid an exploding petrol bomb thrown by protesters during a demonstration in Athens, Greece.

50. May the Best Surfing Dog Win

Dogs take part in the 2011 Surfing Dog competition in California.

I hope you’ve enjoyed watching this list of top 50 best animal photos for the year that we are slowly leaving behind us.
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sanela — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:56:35 +0000

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sanela — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:21:06 +0000

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