San Diego Zoo - in pictures
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For the first time in almost 40 years, an aardvark pup has been born at the San Diego Zoo in California. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance / AP -
Msituni, a giraffe calf born with an unusual disorder that caused her legs to bend the wrong way, lives at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance / AP -
A world record-sized puppet, Percy the Porcupine, built to promote a new area at the San Diego Zoo, is unveiled to schoolchildren in Los Angeles, California. Reuters -
Percy the Porcupine. Reuters -
A burrowing owl in a cactus habitat at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance / AP -
Otis, a 45-year-old male river hippopotamus at the San Diego Zoo died last year. Nicknamed the 'smiling hippo', Otis had been under care for degenerative joint and spinal disease and a decision to euthanise him was made. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance / AP -
A California condor takes flight in the Ventana Wilderness east of Big Sur, California. The San Diego Zoo is studying 'virgin births' of the species. AP -
Gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Reuters -
Ramil, a male snow leopard at the San Diego Zoo. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance / AP -
A baby white rhino at the San Diego Zoo. AP -
Zoo staff have announced that three of its six adult female African elephants are pregnant, including Litsemba and Umgani. San Diego Zoo / Getty Images
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