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Jazz diva Laura Fygi poses with a one-month old Malayan Tapir which she named Victoria at the Singapore

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...Young tapirs have a pattern of spots and stripes to camouflage them in the dappled forest. Adult Malayan tapirs are black with a white "saddle"

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Cloey the dog and her friend Mafusa the cheetah. Riana Van Nieuwenhuizen lives with four cheetahs, a lion cub and two wolves in Bloemfontein, South Africa

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Zookeepers present four lion cubs at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany

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Two geese chatter in the hippo enclosure in the zoo in Berlin

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An elephant is relocated in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya

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Phoebe and her unnamed baby male elephant pose for a photo at the Columbus zoo in Ohio

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Nathan Kitching, 6, and Kai Gregory, 5, from Bedfordshire, feed Leelee, a two-year-old elephant calf, at the launch of the Big Five experience at Whipsnade Zoo

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Scientists at the University of Bath are working with the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust to study an endangered large shrew-like mammal that kills its prey with a venomous bite called Hispaniolan solenodon

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Biborka, a female grey donkey foal, stumbles shortly after she was born to an albino mother at the Puszta Animal Park in Hungary

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One of the three baby Gelada Baboons born at Edinburgh Zoo is suckled by its mother

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...The baboons, named Chandu, Chibale and Chiku, are the first Geladas to be born at the zoo

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Two joeys look out of a mother wallaby's pouch at the small zoo of Gettorf, northern Germany