2011 Year in (Animal) Pictures - January
2011 Year in (Animal) Pictures - January
Service with a smile: Blue, a pooch at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home in London, is waiting for a nice family to adopt him. Until then, he will glady moisturize any tennis balls you happen to have handy.
Photo: Oli Scarff / Getty Images
Whiteout: A polar drifts to sleep at the Berlin Zoo.
Photo: Marcel Mettelsiefen / AFP / Getty Images
That's cheating, Agathe: Obviously sensitive about her roly-poly figure, Agathe the cane toad tips the scale to disguise her true weight. (Hanover Zoo stocktake in Hanover, Germany.)
Photo: Holger Hollemann / AFP / Getty Images
Baby white lions! In the convenient three-pack! These 2-month-old cubs at the Buenos Aires Zoo, the first white lions ever born in South America, are obviously very attached to each other.
Photo: Eduardo Di Baia / AP
Dog-eared: Kathy Wiltshire's puppy-lined hoodie keeps her head warm in Indian Trail, N.C.
Photo: Jeff Siner / The Charlotte Observer
The dog days of winter: A massive storm that broke the single-day record for largest snowfall in Connecticut dumped more than 2 feet on Hartford, much of it ending up on Zephyr the Portuguese Water Dog.
Photo: Jessica Hill / AP
Day 1 - after careful exploration I conclude that the island is uninhabited: A southern pochard duck takes a ride on a hippo at the Berlin Zoo.
Photo: Michael Sohn / AP
Graveside vigil: Leao sits besides the grave of her owner, Cristina Maria Cesario Santana, for a second straight day at the cemetery in Teresopolis, near Rio de Janiero. Cesario Santana died in last week's catastrophic landslides.
Photo: Vanderlei Almeida / AFP / Getty Images
Why doughnut hard like rock? Tian Tian examines a frozen fruit loop at the National Zoo in Washington.
Photo: Jose Luis Magana / AP
While pretending to avert his eyes, George couldn't help sneaking a peek at the furless monkeys: Eva Praskova and her fiance, Martin Vagra - guests at an inn in Yamanouchi, Japan - discover that their lovers onsen, or hot tub, isn't as private as they thought.
Photo: Hiro Komae / AP
You weren't using this, were you? Creatures large and small take cover as snow begins to fall in the Macedonian capital of Skopje.
Photo: Boris Grdanoski / AP
Don't be a party animal: If you plan to celebrate the Asian New Year of the Rabbit on Thursday, drink responsibly. Know when to stop. (Beijing.)
Photo: Ng Han Guan / AP
All pictures and captions are from sfgate.com
