Orangutan

Orang-utan Schubbi reacts in the new Asia enclosure at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. He is leader of a group of seven apes, who moved into their new home last week. After 10 years the close to nature 'Zoom Erlebniswelt' is now completed. The reconstruction of the old zoo into a modern appropriate to the species habitat cost euro 95 million ($125 million).
(AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Liberian Lynx

A handout picture by the Iberian Lynx Conservation Breeding Programme dated April 2009 shows a female lynx with her cub at the captive breeding center of the Donana National Park, southern Spain. The Iberian lynx, the world's most endangered feline species, could be a step further from extinction after a Spanish woman left three million euros in her will to help protect the animals.
(AFP/HO/File)

White Tiger

A white tiger rests inside an enclosure at Beijing Zoo in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. There are fewer than 50 wild tigers left in China today, living in Yunnan, Tibet, Jilin and Helongjiang, according to Xie Yan, the China program director of the Wildlife Conservation Society. The organization is working with the Chinese government to help protect Amur tigers from poachers and develop new habits to their survival.
(AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

New-born giraffe

A new-born giraffe calf stands in the giraffe house of the Budapest Zoo in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, March 4, 2010. The 170-cm tall baby whose gender is not yet known was born Wednesday evening.
(AP Photo/MTI, Balazs Mohai)

Black Jaguar with spotted cub

Lolo, a black Jaguar, plays with her newborn spotted cub inside their cage at Jordan's zoo in Yaduda February 16, 2010. The two-month-old cub made his first public appearance on Tuesday after being born to Lolo and Falah, who originate from South America.
REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS)

Australian Tasmanian Devil

In this Oct. 17, 2008 file photo, Tex, a Tasmanian Devil, sits in his enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. Australian scientists say Wednesday, March 10, 2010, they have found a colony of Tasmanian devils that are genetically different from their peers and so far resistant to the face cancer that has decimated the population.
(AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Buttercup Blossom

Spring and ice : A buttercup blossoms through the snow in a park the eastern German town of Ostrau.
(AFP/DDP/Eckehard Schulz)

Western Spotted Skunk

In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a western spotted skunk peeks out from between the rocks at the Bronx Zoo in New York, Friday, March 5, 2010. Normally native to western North America, this new arrival makes her home in the Bronx Zoo's 'Mouse House.'
(AP Photo/WCS, Julie Larsen Maher)

Persian leopard cubs

Persian leopard cubs. Iran has promised to donate two wild leopards to Russia, officials said Sunday, bringing closer the aim of settling the rare animals near the 2014 Winter Olympics host city of Sochi.
(AFP/File/Attila Kisbenedek)