Animal Photos Of The Week

This was certainly a good week for strange but true animals.

First we met Harry the baby pygmy hippo. Rejected by his mother, the friendly little guy has been fed by caretakers at a wildlife ranch in South Africa.

Then we saw the baby aardvark born this week at Busch Gardens in Florida. With pink and wrinkly skin, the baby's cuteness remains debated.

Strangest of all is probably Lilli, the young, six-legged calf from Switzerland. Although vets thought she wouldn't live for long, her zest for life has stopped her owner from euthanizing her.

In other animal news, Idaho's legislature passed the state's first law that would make mistreatment of pets and livestock a felony, reported the Associated Press. Ann Church, vice president of state affairs for the ASPCA, said, "We couldn't be happier, because it's a tremendous step forward for the state."

Researchers from the California Academy of Sciences and the University of Texas at El Paso made an important discovery this week while working in Burundi. The Bururi long-fingered frog, last seen alive in 1949 and presumed extinct, was discovered by a team led by David Blackburn and Eli Greenbaum, reported LiveScience.

About the discovery, Blackburn said, "I thought I heard the call and walked toward it, then waited. In a tremendous stroke of luck, I casually moved aside some grass and the frog was just sitting there on a log."

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[karen lyons kalmenson]

06:20 AM on 04/02/2012

monday morning critter love☺♥☻

[David G Kramer]

05:36 PM on 04/01/2012

All this week on AOL, your sideshows have NOT been openeing at all....when everything else works! That's why you have such LOW comments!!!! Can anyone fix this????

[elsquibbs]

05:33 PM on 04/01/2012

The monkey in #6 looks like he has a severe hangover.

[karen lyons kalmenson]

06:20 AM on 04/02/2012

did you see the article on the animal boozers?

[elsquibbs]

11:14 AM on 04/02/2012

Party animals.

[Venmaker1]

03:22 PM on 04/01/2012

Please give those monkey's some Claritin.

[Mrs Robinsons]

02:35 PM on 04/01/2012

Baby animals...fluffy and stuffy...
"red and yellow, black and white
they are perfect in his sight..
Jesus loves the little children of the world!".
Jesus said..in Matthew 18 verse 3
that
unless(until) we become again
LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN
we
shall
not enter
into the kingdom of heaven.