Animal Tracks: Oct. 17 - 24

A horse grazes in an autumn forest near the village of Arkhiz in Russia's southern Karachaevo-Cherkessia region.

This three-picture combo shows polar bear Knut interacting with with a 6-year-old visitor named Nane and her polar bear stuffed animal at the Zoo Berlin. German newspapers reported today that the world famous polar bear is being bullied by his fellow polar bears in their enclosure in the Berlin zoological garden.

A 2-day old pigeon is held in a coop in Lahore, Pakistan.

A 2-month-old hippo gets a shower from a zookeeper at the Zoo Berlin.

Robin Henderson stretches out her Maine Coon cat, Stewie, outside of her home in Reno, Nev. Stewie, a five-year-old Maine Coon owned by Hendrickson and Erik Brandsness, has been accepted by Guinness World Records as the world's longest cat at 48.5 inches.

A baby monkey named Miwa hangs on to a baby boar named Uribo while they run around in the Fukuchiyama City Zoo, near Kyoto, Japan.

A deer walks through a stream at Bradgate Park in Newtown Linford, central England.

Two year-old Nathalie Amwasi rides a pet python that's nearly 10 feet long in Ramallah, a Palestinian city in West Bank.

A bird looks for an open place to land on power lines filled with birds in Carmel, Ind.

A Royal Parks employee carries a swan that he caught on the street after it left the confined space of a park in central London.

A squirrel is seen on a tree in a park in downtown Sofia, Bulgaria.

A stray cat enjoys the sun by the ancient Roman temples in downtown Rome's Largo di Torre Argentina. Some 250 to 300 cats have taken shelter in the place also known as a "cat sanctuary," in the ruins of one of the older temples in Rome.

A pair of mallard ducks swim up the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine, against a reflection of fall foliage colors.

A beagle runs on fallen leaves in a park in Bucharest, Romania.

A Lebanese pigeon raiser flies his feathered pets on the roof of his building in Beirut.

Researchers from the Audubon Institute, The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Institute, and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries release sea turtles that had previously been impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, back into the Gulf of Mexico, 45 miles off the coast of Louisiana.

A Great Dane runs through an agility course at a regional exhibition in the Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

An employee of Royev Ruchey Zoo feeds 2-month-old Asian palm civet cubs in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

Birds feed from a deer at Bradgate Park in Newtown Linford, central England.