
A polar bear cub
plays near his mother at the Moscow Zoo. |

Koluk the polar
bear goes headfirst into the pool at the Albuquerque Rio Grande Zoo in
Albuquerque, N.M., on July 15, 2003. |

A beluga whale
swims in a tank at the Vancouver Aquarium. |

A German Shepherd
named Pepper sits with two endangered Bengal tiger cubs and a cougar cub,
far right, at the home of veterinarian Rob Zammit outside Sydney, Australia. |

Crystal, a year-old
black Labrador-Dalmatian mix, peers through a heart-shaped hole in a fence. |

Mallard ducklings
wait their turn May 14, 2003 as a sibling struggles to make it up a curb in
South Bend, Ind. The mother, who had already cleared the obstacle, flirted
with traffic for 20 minutes before leading her offspring safely across the
busy road. |