Two 8-week-old Sumatran tiger cubs hide under their mother, Jaya, during their public debut at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, Washington, USA. The cubs, born on May 25, will be on display intermittently with their mother Jaya. The male and female cubs, weighed around 2 pounds at birth have grown to more than 14 pounds
Two six month-old Bengal tigers play in an enclosure at the Nandankana Zoological Park on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India
Two female clouded leopard cubs, Parti and Jaya, were born on May 14th at the zoo in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. The leopard cubs were born to Luang, a female leopard originally from Howletts Zoo in the UK, and Samar, a male leopard from a zoo in Prague
A female cheetah looks out of her open air enclosure at the 'Safari and Hollywood Park Schloss Stukenbrock', Germany. According to information released by the Indian newspaper 'Hindustan Times' India's government has cleared plans to reintroduce the cheetah
Six month old female polar bear cubs play in a pool at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk
A polar bear dives into the water at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Powell, Ohio
Giant panda Ju Xiao holds her newborn cub in her mouth at the Bifengxia panda breeding centre in Yaan, Sichuan Province, China
These zebras became a tangle of black and white stripes as they piled in for a dramatic tussle. The usually placid animals barged in to one another, baring their teeth and snapping at their opponents. The battle was captured by photographer Sam Dobson
A four-day-old Zedonk, a rare cross between a zebra and a donkey, stands next to her mother at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Lumpkin County, Georgia
A man plays with his pet iguana during the opening ceremony of the Taiwan International Tattoo Convention in Taipei
A baby elephant welcomes another newborn elephant at the Hanover Zoo in Germany
Two sparrows fight for food in Urs Schmidli's garden in Scherz, Switzerland. The male sparrow seemed to have had enough of the female's squawking and rudely closed her beak with his tiny talons
A pair of fledgling barn swallows plead for breakfast from a perch above the seventh hole at the Eugene, Oregon, Country Club
Photographers take pictures underneath a rescue dog as it jumps across an obstacle during a demonstration by the Engineering Regiment of the PLA for international media at a base located on the outskirts of Beijing
Loughlin Deegan, Artistic Director of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival, sits with a Great Dane named Toby dressed as Hamlet at the launch of the festival at the Gaiety Theatre. The festival, which runs from September 30th to October 17th, features a play entitled The Rehearsal, Playing the Great Dane
A cat shows interest in a frog sitting on a rock in the eastern German town of Sieversdorf
Sheep graze close to electricity-generating wind turbines as a rainbow is seen in the background near the northern German town of Husum
A photo released by the Sabah Wildlife Department shows a rare hairy-nosed otter (Lutra sumatrana) that was photographed by a remote camera in Deramakot Forest Reserve in Sabah, Malaysia. The last confirmed record of the hairy-nosed otter in Sabah is a museum specimen collected over 100 years ago
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