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Flamingo
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/flamingo630.jpgThe famously pink bird takes up a tortuous-yet-beautiful stance in its enclosure at Wuppertal zoo. Photograph: Ina Fassbender/Reuters
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Red kneed spider
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/spider630.jpgA keeper with a spider during the new year stocktake at London Zoo. Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Reuters
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Sparrows
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/sparrows630.jpgSparrows perch on a willow tree by the West Lake in Hanoi at the turn of the year. Photograph: Reuters
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Pythons
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/snakes630.jpgA man wrapped with pythons, including the Albino Burmese Python, as part of a show celebrating the Year of the Snake in the Chinese calendar, in Malabon city, north of Manila, the Philippines. Photograph: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
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Reindeer
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/reindeer630.jpgA herd of deer stand in the Cairngorm Mountains near Avimore, Scotland, at the end of 2012. Photograph: David Moir/Reuters
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Rabbits
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/rabbits630.jpgAbandoned rabbits Holly and Ivy, who were discovered just after Christmas in a cage left beside bins at a block of flats in Hamilton, Scotland. Photograph: SSPCA/PA Wire
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Polar bear
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/polarbear630.gifAnori, a one-year-old polar bear, plays with the mock-up of a walrus in her enclosure at Wuppertal zoo, Germany. Anori was born on January 4th last year. Photograph: Ina Fassbender/Reuters
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Penguins
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/penguins630.jpgThe birds are fed in their enclosure during London Zoo's annual new year stocktake. In the stocktake, keepers check on numbers of everything from stick insects and frogs to tigers and camels. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Giant panda
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/panda630.gifPanda Qin Chuan plays in the snow at Jinbao Park in Weifang, Shandong province, China, in late December 2012. Photograph: China Daily/Reuters
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Jungle nymph
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/nymph630.jpgA jungle nymph rests on a zookeeper's hand during London Zoo's stocktake. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Barn owl
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/owl2.gifA barn owl at London Zoo's annual stocktake. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Mountain goats
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/mountaingoats630.jpgGoats face off in their enclosure at Wuppertal Zoo. Photograph: Ina Fassbender/Reuters
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Meerkats
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/meercats630.jpgKeeper Nicki Williscroft at Twycross Zoo in the British midlands counting meerkats during the annual stocktake. Photograph: Twycross Zoo/PA Wire
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Japanese macaque
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/macaque630.jpgA baby macaque, or snow monkey, eats during a snowfall at a wildlife zoo in Hefei, Anhui province, China, on Stephen’s Day. Photograph: Reuters
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Diamond python
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/python630.jpgKeeper Grant Kother poses with a snake during the London Zoo stock take. The compulsory count of more than 17,500 animals is noted annually as part of the zoo's licence and the information is logged with the International Species Information System (ISIS), used for managing international breeding programmes of endangered animals. Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Reuters
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Cat and nemesis?
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/catdog630.jpgA woman with her dog and cat wait at Oasis, a veterinary clinic, in Lima's shanty town of Villa El Salvador. Veterinarians and animal activists there are promoting sterilisation at very low prices to reduce the proliferation of abandoned animals on the streets. Photograph: Mariana Bazo/Reuters
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Bull frog
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/bullfrog630.jpgA frog gets down and dirty for the London Zoo stocktake. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Ivory
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/tusks630.jpgPart of a shipment of tusks seized by customs officials from an imported container are displayed in Hong Kong. According to the customs department, 779 pieces of ivory tusks from Kenya weighing about 1,300kg and worth about HK$10.6 million (€1 million) were confiscated from a shipping container sent from Malaysia to the port. Photograph: Bobby Yip/Reuters
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Finback whale
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2013/01/whale630.jpgA deceased 60ft finback whale lies on a beach with the skyline of New York in the background in the Queens borough region of Breezy Point late last year. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
