A heron tries to swallow a large turtle in this photograph taken by Jose F Garcia at the Everglades National Park in Florida. The bird spent 25 minutes turning the nine inch reptile over in its beak as it tried to figure out how to eat it
The worlds first cloned camel, Injaz, is seen with her mother during the celebration of her birth at the Camel Reproduction Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Holy Cow! Here's Moses, a Jersey Holstein calf mix at Brad Davis and Megan Johnson's farm in Sterling, Connecticut, who has a white marking on its forehead in the shape of a cross
...Sporting only four plumes of feathers, Oscar the 35-year-old Moluccan cockatoo lives with Cherie Wachter at the Humane Society of Broward County in Florida, USA, where at least the temperature is forgiving
South American sea lion mother Johna (right) tenderly touches the mouth of her 10-day-old son at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, Japan