A Kazakh eagle hunter holds his bird during the Golden Eagle Festival in the Altay Mountains near Sagsay village in

western Mongolia's Bayan Olgiy province.

A man feeds pigeons at the market square in Gdansk, Poland.

Pet dog Dana makes her arrival prior to her wedding with Puky in Lima, Peru. The wedding was held as part of the World Animal Day

celebration.

A male mandrill yawns in the zoo of Budapest, Hungary. The mandrill is one of the endangered species of West Africa, for

which a breeding program is coordinated at the Budapest Zoo.

A herd of buffalo kicks up dust as cowboys drive them across Custer State Park, near Custer, S.D. The park's annual buffalo roundup drew more than 10,000 spectators.

Camel riders wait next to their camels with the Dubai tower in the background during the camel races at the Nad al Sheba racetrack outside Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Residents of the southern Chilean city of Valdivia watch two sea lions while they caress themselves next to the Calle-

Calle River in the southern Chilean city of Valdivia.

A child strokes a camel at Budapest Zoo and Botanical Gardens.

A mandrill monkey baby clutches his mother on a tree at Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden.

An elderly woman and her cat sit near an image of Cuba's President Fidel Castro at a government store in Havana.

A small frog peers out of the center of a pineapple plant in Surfside, Fla.

A hedgehog prepares for its hibernation in Petersdorf, Germany.

A herd of Tibetan sheep are taken for grassing near Sela at a altitude of 13,500 feet above the sea level in Arunachal

Pradesh near Guwahati City, northeast India.

Phoenix, a Belgian Tervuren, races in the 60 weave pole competition during the 10th annual Purina Incredible Dog

Challenge Finals, at Purina Farms in Gray Summit, Mo.

A squirrel plays on a tree in a Mexico City park.

Atlas, a gibbon ape, walks along the forest floor at the Monkeyland Primate Sanctuary near Plettenberg Bay in

South Africa.

Flying leap:Olympian and world-record holder Jackie Joyner-Kersee cheers

for Cindy the Soaring Greyhound as the dog flies over a replica of the Gateway Arch during the 10th annual Purina

Incredible Dog Challenge at Purina Farms in Gray Summit, Mo.

Filipino dog owners hold their pets during blessing rites at a church in Manila, Philippines.

Samantha Zeller, an animal care attendant at the Idaho Humane Society in Boise, Idaho, holds a 7-week-old Maltese puppy that was

rescued with about 200 other dogs from a Burns, Ore., puppy mill. The dogs were brought to the shelter where they received check-ups and

vaccinations.