Cheetah cubs chase a gazelle fawn that was given to them by their mother in order to help them hone their hunting skills. This image was captured by Exodus tour guide and wildlife photographer Paul Goldstein. He says: "It is often hard to watch, but cheetahs are desperately endangered, but Thomson's gazelles are not - the day we run short of those fleet-footed antelope, we really have screwed up the planet."
A lemon shark bites another on the snout in waters off the Bahamas. Photographer Matt Heath said: "The sharks in this picture were competing for a piece of fish that I was hand-feeding them. I was trying to feed one of the sharks when the other came in and bit at the fish at the same time. Unluckily for the first lemon shark, the second one missed the fish and caught this guy on the nose."
A freediver dances with dolphins off Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas. Three pro swimmers held their breath for up to four minutes while plunging to depths of 30ft with the dolphins in a bid to learn new techniques.
Jack the English Pointer gives Lauren Rowe a drink from a water fountain on the first day of Spring in Brisbane, Australia
A dog from the Chongqing Municipality Fire Fighting Special Mission team inches along two 10m long tightropes during training for disaster relief missions
Bejewelled collars, dainty outfits and dyed fur - the competition to have the best looking pet is fierce. Sai Kung is awash with dog boutiques and even a doggy bakery where you can buy individual doggy pies (that's pies for dogs, not pies containing dog, of course).
Ruben the chimpanzee is pictured playing at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo before his move to Oklahoma City Zoo...
...Ruben plays with his surrogate mother, Kito, at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Ruben's mother died just 24 hours after giving birth at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo.
Mawimbi, a baby western lowland gorilla, lies in the arms of its mother Mamitu in a zoo in Zurich, Switzerland
Malou, a baby male Sumatran orangutan, clings on tightly to the thick hair of mother Cahaya as he makes his public debut at the zoo in Zurich
A baby two-toed sloth yawns at the Aiunau Foundation in Caldas, south of Medellin, Colombia
Nine-day old male Indian rhinoceros Jari stands beside his 18-year old mother Quetta in an outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Basel, Switzerland
Female liliger cub Kiara plays at the Novosibirsk Zoo, in Novosibirsk, eastern Siberia. Kiara is a hybrid between a lion and a ligress.
Bengal kittens are prepared for their appearance at the Royal Melbourne Show
Animal keeper Rainer Kraut spray-washes an elephant named Drumbo at the zoo in Dresden, Germany
Elephants perform at Hanover Zoo, Germany
A California sea lion and a walrus 'kiss' each other during a show at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, Japan
A mole pokes its head out of the ground in Godewaersvelde, France
Susan Gell and Roy Rodgers excercise their horse, Shoshoni, in Loch Lomond in Luss, Scotland. Roy and Susan both live on Inchtavannaich Island on Loch Lomond and regularly take their horses to the mainland for exercise by letting the horse swim across the water.
A giraffe runs loose on the streets after escaping from its enclosure at a circus in Italy. People frantically fled its path as the runaway charged around the town centre of Imola.
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