1. Smashing Success The French poodle named Smash was crowned Best in Show at the World Dog Show Mexico 2007.

2. Check Me Out! A bird examines its reflection in the shiny rim of a van's wheel at Belfair State Park in Belfair, Wash.

3. Prepare For Takeoff! A silver gull readies for flight at Manly Beach in Sydney, Australia.

4. Can You Lend Me A Back? When army ants hauling prey encounter a gaping pothole, volunteers bridge it with their bodies so that comrades can traipse along their backsides at full speed until the job is done, according to a study. Results indicate a few with a lot of backbone can improve the performance of a majority.

5. New ?? Indah,an 8-week-old female binturong cub, explores her enclosure for the first time at the Wild Asia exhibit at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. Indah is the first binturong to be bred at the zoo. The binturong, also known as a 'bear-cat,' is native to southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia. They are highly endangered due to poaching and the destruction of their habitat.

6. Joining The Pepsi Generation A black bear takes a drink from a plastic soda bottle near South Lake Tahoe, Calif.

7. Counting Their Chicks Four 1-month-old tiger cubs play with a group of chicks in a cage at Wenling Zoo in China.

8. In Need Of A Nap Kijivu, a 15-year-old gorilla, rests with her newborn at Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic.

9. A Slick Look A bird covered in oil rests in the Lengua inlet near Concepcion, south of the capital of Santiago, Chile. A rupture in a pipe operated by the country's state oil company spilled oil into the ocean.

10. Oily Depths A sea lion peeks out of an oil slick caused by a crack in an undersea oil pipeline of Chile's state-owned company.

11. Sealed Fate Two endangered monk seals washed ashore off Makua Beach on Oahu, Hawaii. One drowned after becoming trapped in an unattended fishing net. Another monk seal found partially entangled in the gill net survived.

12. Grizzly Sprinkler A brown bear enjoys a break from the heat at Moscow Zoo in Moscow.

13. Slow Transport A turtle swims with its baby on its back in a pool in Hanshan Temple on the outskirts of Suzhou, China's Jiangsu province.

14. A Whale Of A Time A boy swims with a white beluga whale at an oceanarium in Qingdao, China.

15. Diving Tiger Odin, a 5-year-old white Bengal tiger, dives for a piece of meat during a big cat show at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif. Unlike most cats that are afraid of water, Odin loves diving into the pool to retrieve bits of meat fed to him by his trainers.