2009.10.20 : Some Better Animal Pictures, From The Telegraph Animal Pictures of the Week, Part I
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. "
- Winston Churchill
A nine-month-old three-legged cheetah named Lucky pops her head out of the window of her keeper's car in Namibia
Kevin Richardson swims with Meg the lion in the Crocodile River just south of the Magaliesburg mountains, near Johannesburg, South Africa
An unnamed penguin chick at the Living Coasts zoo in Torquay that has found solace in a stuffed toy after he was bullied by his bigger sibling
A ten-day-old emu chick walks next to its father at the Berlin zoo
A 100-day-old female panda cub named 'Lin Ping' is cared for by a veterinarian at Chiang Mai Zoo, northern Thailand
A dormouse snoozes through a census of dormice populations in woodland at Fyne Court, Somerset
A bold rabbit shares some food with Umqali the white rhino at Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo, Australi
Zohra, a one-year-old female African leopard, plays with its zoo keeper at Ghamadan zoo near Amman, Jordan
Vervet monkeys in Turtle Bay, St Kitts, have learned to raid beach bars in search of bottled drinks. Some only take soft drinks, while others drink alcohol. A small number have become alcoholic and will drink until they become totally drunk.
Chimpanzees wait to be fed at Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, The Netherlands
A Congolese Army soldier holds a baby chimpanzee while manning a checkpoint near the provincial capital of Goma
A puppy sleeps under a US soldier's hat and rifles in Baquba, Iraq
Surrogate mum Katjinga, an eight-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback, looks after Paulinchen - a tiny pot-bellied pig
A herder feeds a buffalo its own milk before milking it on the outskirts of Amritsar, India. But it's all about the expression on the face of the cow on the right for us - we have a strange feeling we've seen this beast before…
A chicken and a dog cuddle up in Huaibei, China
Mali the hippopotamus eats into her birthday cake made of vegetables at a party to celebrate her 42nd birthday at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand
Jeremy Martin, 14, from Hawaii watches Tofu the incredible surfing rat, whom he built a special foot long surfboard for
This heron was caught fishing by wildlife photographer Graham Hiscock at a pond in Bushy Park near Hampton Court Palace
Three ring-tailed lemurs play with a Halloween pumpkin at Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, Germany
Salome and her male youngster Komale, who will be two in December, eye up a pumpkin that arrived in the gorilla enclosure at Bristol Zoo Gardens for Halloween
A newborn female Bornean orangutan curls up with her mother, Sophia, at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois
Pictured is baby marmoset monkey Wayne who was abandoned by his mother because she only had enough milk for two of his brothers. Staff at Knowsley Safari Park have stepped in to save him from starving to death
A monkey rides on the back of a US. Army soldier at combat outpost Dallas in the Kunar Province of eastern Afghanistan
Leon, a Californian sea lion, rests on a ball after his daily performance at a zoo in Nyiregyhaza, eastern Hungary
A hippopotamus sitting in a pond in its enclosure at Cologne Zoo, Germany
Miss Porky Pig flies through the air during the Pig Racing and Diving show at Melbourne Showgrounds
Jensen the Wombat plays with a blanket at the Warrandyte Wildlife Shelter, Victoria, Australia. He was found in his mother's pouch after she was killed by a car in Monbulk last May…
A zookeeper feeds milk to a newborn baby giraffe at the zoo of Duisburg, Germany
Baby rhinoceros Geraldine runs beside her mother Claudia at the Serengeti Safari park in the northern German village of Hodenhagen
A pig pokes his snout through the rails of its holding pen at the 61st Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in Gaithersburg, Maryland
Three-month-old tiger cub Kinwah with German shepherd dog Rumble who has taken on the role of protective older brother. They are pictured at Mogo Zoo in Australia where Kinwah was born
At the Wildlife Animal Park in southern Oregon, a couple of African Elephants, Alice and Tiki, will wash your car for a $20 donation
A cow stands on the Klausenpass mountain road in the Swiss Alps
A tourist nearly has her head bitten off by a hungry crocodile whilst on a tour in Costa Rica, South America
One of the fully grown Pygmy hedgehogs owned by Ashleigh Hunt, 20, of Northampton which are quickly becoming popular domestic pets in the UK.
A couple of micro pigs stand next to a cat. The pigs which grow to just 14" tall are the latest 'must have' pet and one can be yours for £700
A polar bear pokes his head into tourist ship after smelling lunch cooking, Svalbard, Arctic
Residents in an Exmoor village have to cover their wing mirrors because of a vain grey wagtail, who spends the whole day looking at himself and messing on their cars
A bear that was trapped in a skateboard park in the Colorado resort town of Snowmass climbs out on a ladder that was lowered into the park by officials
A newborn baby elephant at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire gets its tail trodden on by its mother
Polar bears Bill, right, and Lara react, at their first meeting at the Zoom Erlebniswelt zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany
A crow hitches a ride on a vulture in Soria, Spain
This cygnet joins up with her five other siblings for a free ride on their mum's back at Bicton Park Botanical Gardens in Devon
Three little pigs, only a couple of days old, have a nap at the zoo in Langenwolmsdorf near Stolpen, Saxony, eastern Germany
A lamb fitted with a tracking device at a farm in the north-west Highlands, as part of an experiment to see if lambs are falling prey to sea eagles [Ahh! - ed]
A five-week-old boar, named Manni, plays with a Jack Russell terrier called Candy in Ehringhausen, Germany
A Great White Shark breaches the surface as it hunts near Seal island, Cape Town. The shark was lured using a rubber decoy seal dragged behind a boat
Firefighter Eforrest Allmond hoses down an Asian elephant from Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus in Philadelphia
Barika, a female gorilla at the Calgary Zoo, holds a knife accidentally left in her enclosure by a keeper [Ahh! - ed]
A zoo official plays with a newborn male orangutan at Songkhla Zoo, southern Thailand
