Traffic comes to a standstill as two lions decide to roll around in the middle of a road on the edge of the Nairobi National Park in Kenya. Commuters were forced to watch the ten-minute display, before the lions left the road.
Chris P Bacon, a piglet born without the use of his hind legs, is seen with his new wheelchair at the Eastside Veterinary Hospital in Clermont Florida. The pig's owner turned the piglet over to a Clermont vet who decided to help. Dr Len Lucero took the pig home and made a wheelchair for him using K'nex toy parts. Chris has outgrown the toy wheelchair, and will soon grow into his new, more permanent and rugged model.
Yu, a 25-year-old female loggerhead turtle, swims after receiving her 27th pair of artificial front legs at the Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe, Japan. Yu lost her front legs during a shark attack.
Seven-year-old Jack Russell terrier Duma shows off his wakeboarding skills at the Vancouver International Boat Show in Canada
Diver Margaux Maes receives a hug from a manatee in Citrus County, Florida
A bemused householder tries to coax two escaped llamas with a bowl of cat food on a street in Henstridge, Somerset. In the end the owners were summoned to the scene and they rounded the pair up. The duo are family pets at a nearby property but had manage to escape by eating their way through the hedge surrounding their enclosure.
Emily Armstrong, aged 7, prepares a calf for show as farmers gather for the 122nd Highland Cattle Society spring sale in Oban, Scotland
A four-month-old baby chimpanzee is seen at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
A baby orangutan named Kate clings to her mother, Kitty. Two orangutans have been called Will and Kate in honour of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge after their visit to Borneo last year. Although the two apes haven't yet met, it is hoped they will when they are released into the same protected rainforest. Their rescuers hope they will start a love story of their own. The orangutans were each born at one of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation's (BOSF) pre-release islands near the Nyaru Menteng Rescue and Reintroduction Centre in the Indonesian part of Borneo.
Gorilla mother Jamani and her baby Bomassa roam the Forest Glade exhibit at The North Carolina Zoo
Camels watch as an employee of Royev Ruchey Zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Siberian Russia, feeds treats to Shetland ponies Silver and Zorka, dressed up as a groom and bride. Employees of the zoo arranged a "wedding" between the ponies to mark Valentine's Day.
Henry the giraffe examines a Valentine's bunch of roses given to him by keepers at West Midlands Safari Park, Bewdley
A chimpanzee investigates treats hidden in large heart-trimmed bags at Whipsnade Zoo
Meerkats look at a beetroot flavoured love heart at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling, Scotland
After a stay in a maternity cave with their mother Frimas for two months, young polar bears Noordje and Pixel emerge into the open air at Dierenrijk Nuenen Zoo in Nuenen, the Netherlands
Fire, a Shih Tzu, is photographed having just had her ''do'' done at the 137th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York
Joco the cross-eyed lion at the zoo in Erfurt, Germany
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