We humans share this planet with countless other species, interacting
with many of them daily, others rarely. We treat some as sources of food
and others as sources of companionship, entertainment, or education. We
experiment with them at a genetic level, try to understand their
overall behavior, and bond with them on an intimate scale. Most animals
live their lives independently of us, but they dwell in habitats that we
shape profoundly. Gathered below are images of animals in the news from
the past several weeks, seen from the perspectives of their human
observers, companions, captors, and caretakers. [42 photos]
A monkey who survived the Ivorian post-electoral crisis at the Abidjan
Zoo. Three lions named Lea, Simba and Loulou, "died of hunger", said
Claude-Sie Kam, a zoo employee, to an AFP reporter. About forty animals
perished due to lack of food at the Abidjan Zoo during the Ivorian
crisis. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images)
Paul Pratti, a sheriff's deputy and wildlife rehabilitator places a
5-month-old bear cub in a carrier after he was captured roaming the
White Lake area in Sullivan County, New York, with a plastic jug stuck
on his head, on August 5, 2011. The undernourished and dehydrated cub
was brought to a rehabilitation center. Authorities are not sure how
long the jug was stuck on his head. (AP Photo/Times Herald-Record, Michele Haskell) # 
Snorkelers swim with a six meter whale shark just outside Hanifaru Bay
of Maldives' remote Baa Atoll, on August 11, 2011. Every year, hundreds
of whale sharks and giant manta rays gather for their annual feeding
frenzy of plankton in July and August, in the geologically unique
Hanifaru Bay. For reasons of conservation, Maldives is likely to shut
down Hanifaru Bay to divers, making this the last season divers can see
this one-of-a-kind phenomenon. (Reuters/David Loh) #
Baby mice born from sperm produced from stem cells are seen in this
handout photo taken by Kyoto University professor Michinori Saito, and
released to Reuters on August 5, 2011. Researchers in Japan used
embryonic stem cells to grow healthy mouse sperm on laboratory dishes, a
development which could help treat human infertility, they said on
Friday. (Reuters/Mitinori Saitou-Kyoto University/Handout) #
Beekeeper Lv Kongjiang, 20, stands with bees covering his body on a
weighing scale during a "bee-attracting" competition against fellow
beekeeper Wang Dalin in Shaoyang, Hunan province July 16, 2011. Wang and
Lv competed by standing on a scale wearing only a pair of shorts and
using queen bees they reared to attract other bees onto their bodies.
Wang won the competition after attracting 26 kg (57 lbs) of bees on his
body in 60 minutes, while Lv had 22.9 kg (50 lbs), local media reported.
(Reuters/China Daily) #
Seth Altamus stands on his paddle board as a gray whale swims close by
in the Klamath River in Klamath, California, on August 4, 2011. The
whale and her calf entered the river in late June during their northward
journey from breeding ground in Baja California to Alaska. The rescue
team spotted what they believed to be the calf swimming to sea on July
23, and scientists said the calf was mature enough to survive its
journey to Alaska. (AP Photo/ashalatylor.com, Ashala Tylor) #
Baby fen raft spiders are reared in test tubes at Chester Zoo, northern
England, on August 9, 2011. 400 of Britain's most endangered species of
spider are being hand reared at the zoo ahead of their release into the
wild later this year, as part of a conservation program aimed at
stemming their decline. (Reuters/Phil Noble) #
A woman takes a ride on a camel as people gather at Seaview waterfront
to celebrate Pakistan's Independence Day on August 14, 2011 in Karachi,
Pakistan. Pakistan celebrated it's 64th Independence day on August 14,
the day before Pakistan was made an independent country based on border
lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India.
Pakistan became an independent country in 1947. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) #
A warden stands guard as an illegal consignment of five tons of Ivory
confiscated from smugglers is destroyed during the African Elephant Law
Enforcement Day in Tsavo West National Park, 380 km (236 miles) east of
capital Nairobi, Kenya, on July 20, 2011. The confiscated consignment,
recovered from smugglers in Singapore in 2002, originated from poaching
activities in both Zambia and Malawi, government officials said. (Reuters/Noor Khamis) #
A dentist polishes the teeth of a horse in Bogota, on August 12, 2011.
Besides working with human patients, some dentists in Colombia also
provide offer dental services for horses used in equestrian
competitions. Such treatments can include the creation of molds and
fixtures to help correct problems with tooth alignment and underbite. A
horse typically undergoes treatment twice a month over a six-month
period, with each session costing $170. (Reuters/John Vizcaino) #
A herd of Sri Lankan wild elephants gather at Minneriya national park,
on August 12, 2011. Sri Lanka on Wednesday said it would go ahead with
its first-ever wild elephant census, with the help of the military and
in spite of conservationist protests that it is a ploy to pluck the best
ones for domesticated use in temples, tourism and labor. Naturalists
estimate Sri Lanka has between 5,000 and 7,000. (Reuters/Stringer) #
Buddhist monks Geshe Tenley (top right) and Tsultrim Davis release a
lobster back into the ocean during "Chokhor Duchen", or the anniversary
of Buddha's turning of the Dharma Wheel, from a boat in the waters off
Gloucester, Massachusetts, on August 3, 2011. The group of Buddhists
released about 500 lobsters that were caught by commercial lobstermen,
after buying the lobsters from a wholesaler who would otherwise have
sold the crustaceans to restaurants. Buddhists practice liberation of
animals due for slaughter as an expression of compassion for the welfare
of all beings and to accumulate karmic merit. It is believed the merits
of such acts are multiplied if they are performed on Chokhor Duchen. (Reuters/Brian Snyder) #
A flamingo flies during sunrise at the Fuente de Piedra natural
reserve, near Malaga, in southern Spain August 6, 2011. Around 600
flamingos were ringed and measured before being released into the
lagoon, which houses one of the largest colonies of flamingos in Europe,
according to authorities of the natural reserve. (Reuters/Jon Nazca) #
Rescuers carry one of the four youths injured in a polar bear attack on
Spitsbergen island, on August 5, 2011. The polar bear attacked a group
of British campers on Friday, killing a 17-year-old boy and seriously
injuring four people camping in Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the
Arctic, Norwegian officials said. The patient was airlifted to the local
hospital and then later to the hospital in Tromso on the Norwegian
mainland. (Reuters/Arild Lyssand/District Governor of Spitsbergen's office/Scanpix Norway) #
Two-year-old chimpanzee "Do Do" feeds milk to "Aorn", a 60-day-old
tiger cub, at Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo in Samut Prakan
province on the outskirts of Bangkok, on July 30, 2011. The crocodile
farm, used as a tourist attraction, houses some 80,000 crocodiles and is
the largest in Thailand. (Reuters/Sukree Sukplang) #
A technician extracts venom from a scorpion at Labiofam Laboratories in
Santa Clara, Villa Clara province, in central Cuba, on August 5, 2011.
The venom will be used to make an anti-cancer medicine that Cuba has
developed and is beginning to sell in Cuba and other countries. (Reuters/Enrique De La Osa) #
Volunteer rescuers drag a beached humpback calf to sea at Surfers
Paradise Beach on August 8, 2011 on the Gold Coast of Australia. The
humpback calf was stranded on the beach for hours before volunteer
rescuers were able to drag it back to the sea. SeaWorld Australia says a
mother and calf humpback were sighted near where the calf was released
and are hoping to get photos to verify it is the same calf and that it
has been reunited with it's mother. (2011 SeaWorld Australia via Getty Images) #
Heads of pigs are placed on the ground of the entrance of a warehouse
of Belgian supermarket group Delhaize in Zellik, near Brussels, on
August 12, 2011. Belgian pig farmers from Veva, the Belgium's Flemish
association of pig farmers, are demanding a decrease of prices Delhaize
proposed to offer for pork. (Reuters/Yves Herman) #
A dead turtle lies on the dried bed of Lake Colorado City near Colorado
City, Texas, on August 11, 2011. In parched West Texas, it's often
easier to drill for oil than to find new sources of water. After years
of diminishing water supplies made even worse by the second-most severe
drought in state history, some communities are resorting to a plan that
might have seemed absurd a generation ago: turning sewage into drinking
water. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) #
A truck loaded with dogs stuffed in cages seen at an undisclosed
location in Thailand's Nakhon Phanom province, on August 12, 2011. Thai
authorities have rescued more than a thousand dogs, which were found
stuffed into tiny cages and being smuggled out of the country to be
cooked and eaten in Vietnam, officials said on August 13, 2011. Police
intercepted four trucks stacked high with crates packed with the animals
in an operation late on August 11 in Nakhon Phanom province in
northeastern Thailand near the border with Laos. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) #
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