1. Loggerhead sea turtles make their way to the sea in Cofete, south of the Spanish Canary island of Fuerteventura. A project to help conserve the turtles aims to reintroduce the species which disappeared from the Canary Islands 300 years ago. HOLDEMQUEEN@HOTMAIL.COM

2. A dog watches two chess players at a park in Kiev.

3. The 6-month-old elephant Sheila tries to catch a pumpkin from a pond at the elephants' enclosure at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany.

4. A 4-year-old Chinese boy, named Huang Yang, plays with the 5-year-old beluga whale Xiao Xin at the Polar Ocean World in Qingdao, China.

5. A newborn giraffe stands beside its mother in an enclosure at the zoo of Rapperswil, Switzerland.

6. Pigs Moritz and Smarty stand on the stage of the Alhambra movie theatre in Berlin, Germany.

7. A mother pygmy hippopotamus checks out her newborn, Boseda, in the Attica Zoological Park, outside Athens

8. Newborn zebras with their mother in the Attica Zoological Park, outside Athens.

9. A red panda couple, both named 'You-you', lick each other at Yumemigasaki Zoological Park in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo.

10. A man kisses his camel during the Mazayen al-Ibl competition, designed to find the most beautiful camels in the desert region of Shaqra in Saudi Arabia.

11. Birds rest on barbed wires near Turkey's Habur border gate to Iraq. HOLDEMQUEEN@HOTMAIL.COM

12. A snowy owl sits in an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.

13. Geese crowd at their open air enclosure on a farm in Kuhhorst, eastern Germany.

14. A polar bear cub kisses his mother in Wapusk National Park on the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

15. A litter of five male white lion cubs, thought to be the first in the world to be bred in a zoo, relaxes at Mogo Zoo south of Sydney.

16. Sitting on a grave, a Eurasian red squirrel holds a black walnut in its mouth in the National Cemetery in Budapest, Hungary.

17. A Siberian Lynx growls in an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. HOLDEMQUEEN@HOTMAIL.COM

18. A duck swims in a canal during autumn in Leicester, central England. HOLDEMQUEEN@HOTMAIL.COM

19. Gray cranes fly at sunset over agricultural fields at the Agamon Hahula observation park in the Israeli northern part of the Jordan Valley, looking for a place to sleep during the yearly bird migration from Eastern Europe to Africa. HOLDEMQUEEN@HOTMAIL.COM

20. Dogs show off at the central police Dog Training School as part of the Tihar festival in Kathmandu, Nepal.

21. Female orangutan Moni plays with her 5-day old baby boy at Indonesia's Gembira Loka Zoo in Yogyakarta.