Animals that make news

We share our planet with a huge number of species of a wide variety of animals, powerful and weak, fast and slow, and also looking completely alien. These are the animals that make the news.

By the way, man also belongs to the animal kingdom, but traditionally prefers to consider himself separately, using the phrase "animals, including humans."

(Total 32 photos)

1. A miniature dachshund named Chocolate at a doctor's appointment, Tokyo, Japan, April 12, 2013. She is undergoing acupuncture therapy. This is a direction in traditional Chinese medicine, in which the impact on the body is carried out with special needles through special points on the body. The number of domestic dogs in Japan is steadily growing and stands at 11.5 million. According to research, every tenth Japanese family has at least one dog. (Photo by Adam Pretty | Getty Images)

2. Seagulls over the sky of Rome, May 2, 2013. Shot at a slow shutter speed. (Photo by Gabriel Bouys | AFP | Getty Images)

3. Aquarium in Vancouver, May 16, 2013. It contains about 2,000 spotted jellyfish of 15 different species from around the world. (Photo by Reuters | Andy Clark)

4. Menorca is the second largest island in the Balearic archipelago. The main holiday here is the feast of John the Baptist, which is celebrated in June. On the streets of the city, riders demonstrate the art of riding, June 24, 2013. (Photo by Reuters | Enrique Calvo)

5. Relocation of 10 elephants in central Kenya, June 19, 2013. In the photo: an elephant, fixed in the back of a truck. (Photo by Reuters | Siegfried Modola)

6. Colorado Yorkshire terrier Nadezhda wears a compact one-limb vest. To get used to a new artificial “paw”, animals need from several days to several months, depending on the severity of the damage and the complexity of the prosthesis device. (Photo by Reuters | Rick Wilking)

7. The owner with his Teeswater sheep breed at the largest agricultural and food exhibition in Ireland, which is visited by more than 80,000 visitors over three days, May 15, 2013. Teeswater sheep wool is famous for its small and long curls. (Photo by Reuters | Cathal McNaughton)

8. A close-up of a European lobster (Hommarus Gammarus) taken at a breeding station at the Alfred Wegener Institute, which is located on the German island of Helgoland, on April 30, 2013. Institute biologists have raised about 3,000 lobsters that will be released into the wild next year. (Photo by Reuters | Fabian Bimmer)

9. Not only cats and dogs are domestic. Here is a small domesticated owl from Myanmar on June 14, 2013. (Photo by AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

10. A mouse flees a flood in New Delhi, India, on June 19, 2013. (Photo by Reuters | Anindito Mukherjee)

11. This is the center of artificial insemination in Austria, April 9, 2013. The bull is irradiated with infrared light to relax the muscles. The center exports bovine seminal fluid to more than 52 countries around the world. (Photo by Reuters | Leonhard Foeger)

12. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un pets a kid while visiting a breeding center under construction in North Korea, May 21, 2013. (Photo by Reuters | KCNA)

13. A veterinarian prepares a horse for castration at an animal clinic in Berlin, Germany April 25, 2013. The Dueppel Clinic at the University of Berlin is one of five university veterinary clinics in Germany. (Photo by Theo Heimann | Getty Images)

14. In the Canadian province of Alberta flood. Gopher dwellings flooded, and they filled the roads and sidewalks, June 22, 2013. (Photo by Reuters | Todd Korol)

15. Brazil protests against the cost of hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup under the slogan "The country needs hospitals, not stadiums." Pictured: a police dog during clashes with demonstrators, June 22, 2013. (Photo by Reuters | Sergio Moraes)

16. In the English county of Westmoreland, a horse fair has been held since the 1600s. Before this event, horses need to be washed, June 9, 2013. (Photo by Reuters | Darren Staples)

17. Alpacas are domestic artiodactyl animals descended from the vicuña. They are always sheared in the spring to make the life of animals more comfortable in the summer, as well as to collect valuable wool, Germany, April 22, 2013. (Photo by Reuters | Michaela Rehle)

18. In early May, hundreds of pilgrims head to a small village lost among the hills of Abruzzo - Cocullo, Italy. There is a feast dedicated to Saint Domenico. Saint Domenico is considered the patron saint of people who have been bitten by snakes, and every year a bunch of hissing reptiles are placed on the statue, Italy, May 1, 2013. (Photo by Reuters | Alessandro Bianchi)

19. An odd way to educate visitors about wildlife is at the Ancol Smart Home in Jakarta. Here are about 20 preserved animals, which are shown by guides, May 16, 2013. (Photo by Reuters | Beawiharta)

20. A red panda rests in his enclosure at the Beijing Zoo on June 24, 2013. (Photo by Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images)

21. Long-tailed mayflies on the surface of the Tisza River, 135 km from Budapest, June 23, 2013. Their life is short. Millions of winged insects flock to the river to mate and give birth before dying just a few hours later. (Photo by Reuters | Laszlo Balogh)

22. Wild customs. A customer selects a cat that is sold for meat at a market in Guangxi, China, June 23, 2013. (Photo by AP Images for Humane Society International)

23. Games of Tibetan takins at the zoo in Berlin, Germany, April 9, 2013. Takin is an artiodactyl mammal of the bovid family; the only member of the genus. (Photo by AP Photo | dpa, Jan-Philipp Strobel)

24. For many decades, domestic dogs were very rare in Iran, because they are considered "najas", that is, dirty animals. However, in recent years, the picture has begun to change rapidly. Every day on the streets of Iranian cities you can see more and more people walking with dogs. And so the Iranian authorities promulgated a ban on walking dogs. Poor dogs unexpectedly became victims of the fight against the pernicious influence of the West. Tehran believes that walking dogs in public is not an original Iranian custom, but a thoughtless imitation of Western culture. In the photo: the mistress with her dog, Tehran, Iran, May 28, 2013. (Photo by Behrouz Mehri | AFP | Getty Images)

25. An injured dolphin appeared on a beach in Hainan province on June 16, 2013. Until special rescuers arrived, tourists took turns pulling the poor animal out of the water to take pictures. Delftn soon died. (Photo by Reuters | Stringer)

26. An international exhibition of cats and dogs took place in Erfurt, Germany, on June 15, 2013. A jury member examines the Sphynx. (Photo by Martin Schutt | AFP | Getty Images)

27. Knee-deep in water. A farmer plows his terraces in Jiangxi province, China, May 30, 2013. (Photo by Reuters | Stringer)

28. A small sea lion in his enclosure at the zoo in Munich, Germany, June 21, 2013. (Photo by Christof Stache | AFP | Getty Images)

29. Customs officers in Manchuria in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in northern China detained two Russians with the largest contraband shipment of bear paws. According to Chinese police, one kilogram of bear paws can be sold in Russia for 2,000 rubles. In China, a similar product can be sold for more than 25,000 rubles. “These people are so cruel that they killed at least 54 bears, not even sparing the cubs,” the customs officer said. (Photo by Reuters | Stringer)

30. Rescuers found a live kitten under the rubble of a house destroyed by a tornado in Oklahoma, May 20, 2013. (Photo by AP Photo Sue Ogrocki)

31. Fishermen from Manila wear masks while fishing to save their faces from the scorching sun. This fisherman took his caught prey in his mouth to find the net. Fishermen here earn 2-7 dollars a day. (Photo by Reuters | Cheryl Ravelo)

32. Christie's International Auction House sold on April 24, 2013 a giant egg of a long-extinct elephant bird. To an unknown buyer, it cost $ 101,813. The struggle for an unusual lot lasted for ten whole minutes. The elephant bird belongs to the family of flightless epiornithoid birds. In height, representatives of this species reached 3-5 meters, and their weight sometimes exceeded 500 kg. The animal was destroyed at the turn of the 17th-18th centuries. The eggs of elephant birds reached a volume of up to nine liters and were 160 times larger than chicken eggs. (Photo by Oli Scarff | Getty Images)