A baby chameleon hatches from an egg after being guarded by its mum deep down in their burrow. Photographer Francisco Mingorance worked with chameleons for 15 years before he was able to capture the special moment. The breeding female dug a 70cm-deep tunnel in the soil to create a small vault where she laid her eggs in Almunecar, near Malaga, Spain. Around a year later, the eggs hatched, and Francisco caught the magic moment. Francisco says: "Just minutes after the small chameleons hatched, they left the den by the same tunnel that their mother dug a year earlier. Once in the open they camouflaged themselves in the vegetation."
A pet poodle from Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning Province loves to go walkies on her hind legs. Cola attracts lots of attention when she walks with her owner Liu Yuansheng in a local park. Dressed in a pink and denim outfit and with four tiny trainers on her paws, the two-year-old happily walks around on both four feet and two. Her owner says: "She loves walking in an upright position and wouldn't feel tired for several kilometres".He says he started to coach Cola to walk on her two hind legs when she was only a few months old. He added: "She learnt quickly and got addicted to it."
A Chinese farmer shows off his prize swine, which he named "Strong Pig", as the disabled animal keeps its 30kgs of body suspended in midair, balancing on its two front legs, in Mengcheng, east China's Anhui province
A baby fur-seal sits on a sofa after making its way into a home on a busy road a few hundred metres from Tauranga Harbour in Tauranga, New Zealand. The seal pup wriggled through homeowner Annette Swoffer's cat flap and jumped up onto her sofa.
Booie the chimpanzee, who kicked a smoking habit and used sign language to beg for sweets, has died at a California animal refuge. Martine Colette of the Wildlife WayStation says Booie was being treated for a heart condition when he died at the age of 44. The chimp had been living at the animal sanctuary near Los Angeles since 1995, after he retired from a research lab. Colette says she turned Booie into a non-smoker but couldn't fix his sweet tooth.
Kekasih, a young orangutan, hangs out with her mum, Sophia, in the Tropic World exhibit at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield
A female koala cuddles her joey in the fork of a gum tree at Wild Life Sydney
Kidogo, a Southern White Rhinoceros, keeps an eye on her one-week-old calf at Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Florida. The zoo has launched a naming contest on its Facebook page. The contest ends on December 23, so that the calf can have her name for Christmas.
Two lions with their four-month-old cubs are seen at a zoo in Yaduda, Jordan
Young elephant Mali nuzzles her mother Dokkoon at the elephant enclosure in Melbourne Zoo in this picture by Australian photographer Arthur Xanthopoulos
Lorenzo the flying Frenchman shows off his skills at the London International Horse Show, Olympia
Dolphins jump out of the water during a show at the 'Nemo' dolphinarium in Minsk, Belarus
A diver swims alongside a Greenland shark, a rarely-seen species that looks like it has been etched from stone. They can survive for more than 200 years at depths of up to 600 metres under Arctic ice. They grow to 23-feet long and are so fearsome they have even been known to eat polar bears. Photographer Doug Perrine captured the elusive creatures when they ventured in to the warmer waters of the St Lawrence River, in North America. He said: "These sharks were very placid and curious. They are much calmer than other sharks; they have an almost goofy, comical appearance. The sharks are known to prey on large seals but I never felt threatened."
A villager shows his painted ox on a stage during a bull painting contest held in Jiangcheng county in southwest China's Yunnan province
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