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Ganuk the polar bear plays with a tube at Polar Bear Habitat in Toronto. Picture: The Canadian Press, Polar Bear Habitat/AP
Shetland ponies wear cardigans made with Shetland wool to celebrate the launch of the Year of Natural Scotland. Picture: Visit Scotland
Two orphaned wombats, called Turtle-belle and Phoenix, are all packed and ready for San Diego. Here they will become some of the first animals to move into the city zoo’s new Australian habitat. The cuddly marsupials will travel in style, boarding a Qantas flight in comfortable custom-built crates, complete with a bed of hay. Picture: Jay Town/Newspix / Rex Features