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A new species of monkey found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is identified as Lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) in this undated photograph. The monkey was first seen in 2007 by researchers John and Terese Hart of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale Research Project. It is the second new species of African monkey to be discovered in the past 28 years, according to the research article in the science journal PLOS One. Hart JA, Detwiler KM, Gilbert CC/PA/Reuters
A juvenile tiger roars in a caged compound on the roof top of an apartment building in Pathum Thani province, central Thailand. A Thai man has been arrested and accused of illegally raising six tigers on top of the apartment building on Bangkok's outskirts after police busted a larger tiger-trafficking ring in the country. Apichart Weerawong/AP
An olive ridley turtle hatchling crawls in the sand after emerging from its shell at a hatchery managed by the Kuta Beach Sea Turtle Conservation at Kuta Beach, Bali. According to the conservation, more than 20,000 eggs were safely relocated to the hatchery since 2002, 80% of which have been successfully hatched and released to the ocean. Desmond Ang/Reuters
A shoebill is displayed at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo Aug. 28. Itsuo Inouye/AP
A five-day-old baby hippopotamus swims next to its mother, Kibu, at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The calf, the offspring of 21-year-old Kibu and 31-year-old Duke, was born on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. Lai Seng Sin/AP
Giant panda Yang Yang (l.) and her cub, Fu Hu, 'Lucky Tiger,' cuddle in their enclosure on Fu Hu's second birthday at the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna. Fu Hu's parents are on loan to Austria from China for a period of 10 years. Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters
A Meerkat stands on a weighing machine at the London Zoo during the annual weighing and measuring of the animals Aug. 22. Alastair Grant/AP
A loggerhead turtle makes its way to the surf, as tourists and volunteers look on, at South Litchfield Beach along the coast of South Carolina. Randall Hill/Reuters
An owl is seen at Jordan's zoo near Amman. Ali Jarekji/Reuters
A horse, a boxer dog, and a podenco dog are silhouetted in Marinaleda, southern Spain. Jon Nazca/Reuters
Newborn Asian elephant calf, Anachli, stands with her mother at the official presentation at the Zoo in Berlin Aug. 15. Anachli was born on Aug. 12. Markus Schreiber/AP
A zookeeper holds a young common marmoset in her hand at the zoo in Eberswalde, eastern Germany, July 25. Theo Heimann/dapd/AP
An orphaned baby squirrel named Squirrelly is syringe-fed by Wildlife Assistant Sheelagh McAllister at the Scottish SPCA's National Wildlife Rescue Center in Fishcross, Alloa, Scotland, in May. Colin Seddon/Scottish SPCA/HO/AP
A Rothschild giraffe calf named Dorle stands in front of her mother Inge in an enclosure at Tierpark Zoo in Berlin, Germany, July 24. Gero Breloer/AP
Leopards cross a dirt road before heading into a jungle at the Yala National Park in Yala, Sri Lanka, July 22. Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters
A young rare albino South American fur seal sits next to its mother 'Harimee,' whose fur has the normal color, at the zoo in Dortmund, Germany, July 20. Philipp Guelland/dapd/AP
Two-week-old white lion cubs sit during feeding time in the Yalta Zoo in Yalta, the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine, July 17. Andrew Lubimov/AP
A herd of endangered Przewalski horses is seen at the Takhin Us National Park in southwestern Mongolia, July 16. Petr Josek/Reuters
Three of eight new hatched Green Iguanas sit in their terrarium at Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany, July 17. After seven years it was the first breeding success of green iguanas at the Zoo. Gero Breloer/AP
A flock of ducks walks near a paddy field in Nakhonsawan province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, June 13. Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters
Flamingos flock together at the Nal Sarovar bird sanctuary near Ahmadabad, India, July 16. Ajit Solanki/AP
A newborn red vari lemur peers through a glass pane with his mother at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany, July 12. Frank Augstein/AP
A trained monkey looks back while sitting on a can next to his owner as they wait for customers to perform to in a park in Islamabad, Pakistan, July 11. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
A sun bear reacts to triple-digit temperatures at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb., July 6. Nati Harnik/AP
A five-year-old rhino stands with her four-day-old calf in an enclosure at the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad, India, July 9. Mahesh Kumar A./AP
A newborn tapir cub accompanied by its mother walks for its first time in an outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, July 6. Frank Augstein/AP
Blizzard, a polar bear, eats a fish while swimming in his new aquarium at the Hamburg Zoo in Germany, July 5. Philipp Guelland/dapd/AP
Siberian tiger cub Plyusha and Shar Pei puppy Fighter play in the house of Yekaterina Khodakova whose Shar Pei dog Cleopatra is breastfeeding Plyusha and her sibling Clyopa in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, June 29. Igor Yakunin/AP
Rufus the Hawk is held by a handler on day seven of the 2012 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon, London, July 2. Hawks have been used to clear the skies during the Wimbledon tournament for about 12 years. Adam Davy/PA Wire/AP
Two-month-old white tiger cubs roar at the Attica Zoological Park in Spata, near Athens, June 29. Thanassis Stavrakis/AP
A three-day-old American Robin chick begs for food in a nest it shares with three other siblings in Freeport, Maine, on June 28. In two weeks the chicks will have opened their eyes and grown enough to venture out into the world. Robert F. Bukaty/AP
Zookeepers take the footprints of a Quokka at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, June 27. Keepers at the zoo have collected the footprints of almost 4,000 animals to pledge their support for wildlife. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
A worker shows a newly-hatched baby crocodile at a crocodile farm in Pasay city, Manila June 26. Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
In Memoriam: Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died of unknown causes on Sunday in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. His subspecies of giant tortoise is now extinct. Although giant tortoises can live up to 200 years, he was thought to be about 100 years old. He died of unknown causes. Photo taken in February 2009. More images at: http://www.csmonitor.com/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Lonesome-George-iconic-Galapagos-tortoise-dies Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
An albino baby Bennett's wallaby is carried by his mother in their enclosure at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, June 22. Ina Fassbender/Reuters
A keeper checks on two beluga whales as they swim in their enclosure at the Beijing Aquarium on June 21. The aquarium is the largest in China and is promoted as 'the world's largest inland aquarium' with more than 1,000 marine species and freshwater fish on display. David Gray/Reuters
A three-month-old Southern Tamandua sits on the back of its mother at Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo, June 20. Itsuo Inouye/AP
Flamingos fly over other flamingos in the waters of a reserve near the town of Manaure, Guajira province, Colombia, on June 18. Joaquin Sarmiento/Reuters
Farmers herd a flock of 5000 ducks along a street towards a pond as residents drive next to them in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, China, on June 17. China Daily/Reuters
A stray dog rests on the steps of a temple in Kathmandu June 15, 2012. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Cucumber, a 4-year-old poodle, looks at visitors touring a pet show in Bangkok, Thailand, June 14. Sakchai Lalit/AP
A young pig peers through a fence in Lofer, Austria, June 13, 2012. Kerstin Joensson/AP
A Bangladeshi caretaker bottle feeds a rescued Bengal Tiger cub at Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladeshi officials rescued three Bengal Tiger cubs from a wildlife smuggler's house in the capital. The cubs, about two months old, had been captured in the south-western Sundarbans mangrove forests in Bangladesh. Zia Islam/AP
An employee of the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau holds one of five sailfin lizards that were smuggled into Hong Kong earlier this year and brought back to the Philippines as they are rehabilitated before being released to their natural habitat June 8, 2012 at suburban Quezon city, Philippines. Bullit Marquez/AP
One of three new North American river otters dives in the pool at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich. The pups were born March 20 to mother Whisker and father Lucius. Mark M. Gaskill/Detroit Zoo/AP
Yozhik, a male Himalayan bear, is cooled under a stream of water poured by an employee of the Royev Ruchey zoo on a hot day near Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
A new-born female Asian elephant calf walks beside her mother during her official presentation at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin on June 5, 2012. The still nameless elephant calf was born on May 31. Markus Schreiber/AP
I'll Have Another, with hot walker Benjamin Perez, pauses to look out from his barn after a workout, June 4, 2012 at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. The Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner goes for horse racings Triple Crown in the Belmont Stakes. Mark Lennihan/AP
A Brown Lemur plays with flags that have been put up by staff at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling, Scotland ahead of their Jubilee Funday being held on June 1, 2012. Andrew Milligan/PA Wire/AP
Indian mahout Sambu hugs the trunk of his 40-year-old female Assamese elephant, Kuchma, below an underpass in New Delhi, May 31, 2012. India has an estimated 28,000 wild elephants living in forest reserves and national parks. Another 3,500 elephants live in captivity, many of them in temples or working in logging camps. Kevin Frayer/AP
A duck quenches it's thirst from a tap at a zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan, where temperatures reach up to 109.4 degrees Fahrenheit May 30. Anjum Naveed/AP
Cooper, a boxer, drinks water from a bottle to cool down in the hot weather in London May 29, 2012. Luke MacGregor/Reuters
Two monkeys quench their thirst while another takes a dip on a hot summer afternoon on the outskirts of Jammu, India. Channi Anand/AP
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Usually secretive snow leopard moms and cubs revealed in first-ever video in Mongolia.
The dens of two snow leopard mothers and their cubs have been located in Mongolia for the first time, with new, unprecedented video showing the mothers and their young inside the den, a conservation organization announced yesterday (July 12).
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