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Animal Tracks: Aug. 4  - Aug. 11

A seal comes to the surface, pigs race at a state fair, and more of this week's best animal photos.

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Chimp off the old block

Shiba, a chimpanzee at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, holds her newborn baby on Aug. 10.

Lisa Ridley / AFP
Image: Emma Leis lays on her competition cows at the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis,

Cow caress

Emma Leis lays on a cow at the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis, Wisconsin, on Aug. 9.

Jim Young / X90065
Image: Pigs race at the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis

When pigs flee

Pigs race at the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis, Wisconsin, on Aug. 9.

Jim Young / X90065
Image: A 29-day-old Labrador puppy sleeps against a tree at a courtyard in Beijing

Dog takes catnap

A 29-day-old Labrador puppy sleeps against a tree at a courtyard in Beijing on Aug. 10.

Jason Lee / X01757
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Busy bee

A bee gathers nectar along Skyline Drive in Shenadoah National Park in Virginia on Aug. 9.

Karen Bleier / AFP
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Bright butterfly

An eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly flies in Shenadoah National Park in Virginia on Aug. 9.

Karen Bleier / AFP
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Seeing double

A gorilla is reflected in a window at the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, Germany, on Aug. 8.

Sven Hoppe / DPA
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Blooming plumage

A peacock displays his plumage at the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, Germany, on Aug. 8.

Sven Hoppe / DPA
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Rock on

A 9-month-old baby samang, a tailless, black-furred gibbon native to forests in Malaysia and Indonesia's Sumatra province, holds onto a rock during a Hindu ritual ceremony in Bali, Indonesia, on Aug. 9.

Firdia Lisnawati / AP
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Sitting pretty

Parrots look around at the ZOOM zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Aug. 8.

Patrik Stollarz / AFP
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Meerly looking

A meerkat stands and watches visitors at the ZOOM zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Aug. 8.

Patrik Stollarz / AFP
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At the end of their rope

Pig-tailed macaques climb on a rope at the ZOOM zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Aug. 8.

Patrik Stollarz / AFP
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The eyes have it

A snow owl at the ZOOM Zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Aug. 8.

Patrik Stollarz / AFP
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On the prowl with a growl

A tiger walks around at the ZOOM zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Aug. 8.

Patrik Stollarz / AFP
Image: Chingiz, a male Siberian forest wolf, growls inside an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo on the suburbs of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk

Big bad wolf

Chingiz, a male Siberian forest wolf, walks around inside an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Russia on Aug. 8.

Ilya Naymushin / X01151
Image: Masha, female raccoon, holds a piece of cloth in a pan with water, placed by zoo employees, inside an enclosure at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk

Washing up

Masha, a female raccoon, holds a piece of cloth in a pan with water, placed by zoo employees, at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Russia on Aug. 8.

Ilya Naymushin / X01151
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Teeny turtle

A zoo worker holds a newborn river terrapin on display at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok on Aug. 8. The River Terrapin is one of the most critically endangered turtle species.

Pornchai Kittiwongsakul / AFP
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Lengthy lick

A giraffe licks its face at the Philadelphia Zoo on Aug. 7.

Michael Zorn / Getty Images North America
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National bird

An American bald eagle surveys its surroundings at the Philadelphia Zoo on Aug. 7.

Michael Zorn / Getty Images North America
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Silly seal

A young seal emerges from the water in Friedrichskoog, Germany, on Aug. 7.

Daniel Bockwoldt / DPA
Image: Loggerhead Turtles Released On Isle Of Palms, SC

Leaving the hospital

Crowds of beach goers watch Mitchell, a 65-pound juvenile loggerhead sea turtle, crawl back to the ocean during the release of rehabilitated sea turtles on Aug. 6 in Isle of Palms, South Carolina. The turtle which accidentally swallowed a fishing hook and had it surgically removed by the sea turtle hospital at the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston.

Richard Ellis / Getty Images North America
Image: A keeper sprinkles coconut oil on orphaned elephants at the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage within the Nairobi National Park, near Kenya's capital Nairobi

Pampered pachyderms

An elephant keeper sprinkles coconut oil on orphaned elephants at the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage within Nairobi National Park in Kenya on Aug. 6.

Thomas Mukoya / X90150
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