Max, a Galapagos tortoise, opens wide for a bite of a watermelon during feeding time at Oklahoma City Zoo.

In Berlin, Germany, zoo officials show off Adolpho, a two-month-old, 3.3kg (7.3lb) giant anteater born in captivity.

Three pigs seek solid footing on the roof of a building after floodwaters from the Mississippi and Iowa Rivers inundated Oakville, Iowa.


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A Chihuahua pup named Zachary from Cundy's Harbor, Maine ,snuggles,Wednesday, May 28, 2008, with one of three orphaned squirrels that his mother is raising along with her own two puppies. (AP Photo / The Times Record, Troy R. Bennett)

A newly born baby flamingo reaches up for its mother at the Oji zoo in Kobe, western Japan May 25, 2008. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN)

A gopher runs alongside the car of McLaren Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain during the afternoon practice session at the Canadian F1 Grand Prix in Montreal, June 6, 2008.

REUTERS/Christinne Muschi

A shoal of 15,000 sardines flees a shark at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise Aquarium in Japan [AFP]

A pig crawled through a hole in a wall of a collapsed house in Renhe village in Shifang, in Sichuan Province.
Photo: Nicky Loh/Reuters

$22,000: A 25-pound (11 kg) Ashera is photographed in Oceanside, California December 4, 2007. The Ashera is a mix between an African Serval, an Asian Leopard and a domestic cat that can weigh up to 30 pounds (14 kg). For cat lovers with exotic tastes and deep pockets, a California biotech company has created a hybrid breed that resembles a mini leopard.

REUTERS/Mike Blake
YIKES!!

A rabbit is seen in front of U.S. Marines, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, near the town of Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, May 19, 2008.

REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

A crocodile hatches during a crocodile hatching festival at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Bangkok.

5 week old hairless kittens.

Baby giraffe.

An artist takes part in a water buffalo painting competition at the Binatbatan Festival in Vigan, north of Manila [Reuters]