Animal Tracks: Jan. 2 - 9, 2011

A Capitol policeman watches as a sniffer dog gets close to the lens on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

A man carries a lamb home as he drives on a motorcycle in the municipality of San Antonio de Los Banos in Havana, Cuba.

Divers perform with beluga whales in the Harbin Polarland, a polar animal aquarium and amusement park in Harbin, northern Heilongjiang province, China.

A squirrel monkey sits beside a heating radiator to keep warm at a zoo in Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province.

A cane toad named Agathe sits by a toy scale during an inventory at the zoo in Hanover, Germany. All habitants of the zoo are to be counted, weighed and measured during the week long inventory.

Geese with Christmas baubles tied to their necks are seen during the "Cabalgata de Reyes," or the Three Wise Men parade, at Town Hall Square in Madrid.

Erin Jessup cries as she holds a cat rescued by a firefighter from her burning Berryville, Va., home.

Birds fly near a kite designed like them in Ahmadabad, India, during the International Kite Festival, which has kite-flyers from 36 countries.

The frost covered eyelashes of a horse are pictured at the eastern German ski resort of Oberhof.

A fireman pulling a stag with a rope on the iced-up Tenderingsees lake in Voerde, Germany. With a cowboy-like lasso throw, a member of the local fire department in Huenxe helped to rescue a herd of deer from the ice covered lake.

A macaque eats a banana as it scavenges for food at a country park in Hong Kong.

A jay pecks at an apple near the village of Khatenchitsy near Minsk, Belarus.

Gorilla mother Dian holds her baby Quembo at the zoo in Frankfurt, western Germany.

A cat show judge examines a Himalayan cat during an international cat exhibition in Holon, near Tel Aviv.

April, who was born last April and weighs about 900 pounds, plays with a circus ball at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation in Polk City, Florida.

Montpelier firefighters Galen Thereault, right, and Danny Ruggles hold a dog named Emma just after she was rescued from the North Branch of the Winooski River in Montpelier, Vt.

A zebra smiles at a family taking pictures of animals as they drive through Pine Mountain Wild Animal park in Georgia.

People swim in the surf near Matarangi, New Zealand, unaware that three sharks, at the bottom half of the image, cruise the waters nearby.

A man is licked by his horse after the annual race organized by Orthodox believers on Epiphany Day in the Romanian village of Pietrosani, north of Bucharest.

Seagulls sit on a bench flooded by the Rhine river in Monheim near Cologne, western Germany.

Senior keeper Mark Tansley poses with a locust during the ZSL London Zoo's annual inventory count in London.

A few of the baby bats at the Bat Clinic in Advancetown, Queensland, Austrailia. The clinic has over 130 baby bats after the wet weather in the area.

Keepers measure Januar, a three day-old baby Sumatran elephant at Taman Safari park, next to his 22-year-old mother Kartini in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia.

At left, a veterinarian holds Tzvika, an injured female turtle, at the Wildlife Hospital in the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv. At right, Tzvika walks with the aid of her newly attached wheels, attached to help her walk after suffering severe damage to her shell from a lawn mowing accident.

A girl with cat makeup holds her 3-month-old sphynx during a cat exhibition dedicated to the New Year holiday in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

The sun sets behind horses attached to carriages in front of ice sculptures at the 12th Harbin Ice and Snow World display in the northern city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China.