A selection of interesting animals from around the world

In the Scottish town of Aviemore runs dog sled race, which brings together more than 1000 dogs and 200 mushers. Dog waiting to be setting in harness.


Robin during a snowstorm in Muncie, Indiana.


Indian elephant with his mother in the zoo of the city of Chester, England.


African penguins rush to the sea after the Gulf of Betty, near Cape Town, South Africa. A group of 63 African penguins were released back into the sea after they have passed a rehabilitation course in the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds.


Waking up in the morning in a pasture in southern Sudan.


Kangaroo found shelter from floods in Australia. Because of the strong over the past decade the disaster affected about 1000 households.


The horse comes out of the stables during a snowfall in Kentucky.


The driver and his elephant cold foggy morning near the capital of Nepal - Kathmandu.


We rejoice in the snow! State Arkansas.


Karpov fed milk in the aquarium "Water World" in Guangzhou, China.


An employee of the zoo Zuhra walking with 18-month-old lion cub Vadik capital Dushanbe on January 20, 2011. Zoo staff 2 times per week Vadik let out of the cage, so he warmed up and walked around the zoo.


The Dolphin Research Center in Florida are studying how these animals can feel each other when their eyes are closed. It was found that the dolphins even with closed eyes can move synchronously, copying each other's movements.


Lunch for a chameleon in a pet shop in Michigan.


Panda at the zoo in Memphis.


Luwak - a small animal from the family of carnivorous mammals. It is used for the production of coffee Indonesia unusual processing. These animals eat coffee cherries, digest, and their droppings in the form of coffee grains washed and dried in the sun. This coffee is considered one of the most expensive in the world, and in Moscow, you can buy it at retail from 715 rubles per 100 grams.


Piglets in the largest agricultural exhibition "Green Week 2011", held from 21 to 30 January in Berlin.


Dogs from the K-9 unit searches the destroyed houses in search of victims of landslides in Nova Friburgo, Brazil.


Two mountain ponies waiting for dinner on a snowy farm in one of the Croatian villages.


Bottlenose dolphins in the largest Aquarium of the Pacific «The Aquarium of the Pacific» in California.


Great blue heron hunts for fish in the river in Oregon.


Last year's champion Pete Jones and his Husky is preparing for the 28th annual sled dog race in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.


At the dawn of the negative temperature rises fog around waterfowl in the pond in Marlborough, Massachusetts.