The 50 Best Animal Photos Of 2011
CULTURE BUZZ Here’s a collection of the best animal photojournalism of the year. It was a sad, funny, but overall cute year for animal photos.
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1.A macaque monkey in Indonesia took a camera from a wildlife photographer before snapping himself in a variety
of poses.
The macaque monkey is extremely rare and critically endangered making these pictures all the more special.
Source: telegraph.co.uk[絶滅の危機にあるマカク属の猿]
2.A boy plays with a cat while his father works on their shack at the slum of Las Mayas in Caracas, Venezuela
on May 31.(Reuters / Jorge Silva )
[ベネズエラのスラム街で猫と遊ぶ少年]
3.Researchers dressed in panda costumes put a panda cub into a basket before transferring it to a new living
environment at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center on February 20.
The panda costumes are part of a new plan to reintroduce captive giant pandas back into the wild. (Reuters)[パ
ンダの着ぐるみを来てパンダの子供を移動させる研究者たち]
4.A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day next to the grave of her owner, Cristina Maria Cesario
Santana, who died in catastrophic landslides in Brazil.
(Getty Images / Vanderlei Almeida)
[レオンという名の犬はブラジルの土砂崩れで亡くなったクリスティーナの墓の隣に二日連続で座っています] http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/incredible-photos-of-animals-from-2011
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6.A black rhino is transported by helicopter in South Africa. This was all part of a relocation plan for black
rhinos, meant to move the endangered species to less populated areas so that they have a better shot at
survival.
(Reuters / WWF)
[絶滅危惧種のクロサイをヘリで移動中]
7.A sheep is rescued from a farm in Vermont after flash floods left it stranded due to flooding from Hurricane
Irene.
Source: burlingtonfreepress.com
8.An African spurred tortoise with two heads and five legs is displayed in Slovakia.
(Reuters / Radovan Stoklasa )[5つの足を有する双頭のケヅメリクガメ]
9.Iris licks her 7-week-old cub during one of their first walks in an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo in
Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
(Reuters / Ilya Naymushin)
10.A flood-affected resident stands with her dogs at her flooded house in Thailand.
(Reuters / Chaiwat Subprasom )
11.A kitten is given oxygen after being saved in a house fire in Missoula, Montana.
“He wasn’t breathing too well,” said Firefighter Brett Cunniff, who scooped up the tiny body and gently carried
it outside into the fresh, cool air. “So I put some oxygen on him.”
Minutes later, the kitten was in the back of an ambulance, cradled in the arms of emergency medical technician
Paige Ostanhowski, who held an oxygen mask to a button nose turning a healthy shade of pink. He survived and is
doing well.
(TOM BAUER/Missoulian Missoula)
Source: missoulian.com
12.A cat sits on top of a Kosovo Serb man’s hat in front of German soliders at a village in Jagnjenica, Serbia.
(Reuters / Marko Djurica)
13.12 giant panda cubs lie in a crib at the Chengdu Research Base in China.
(Reuters / China Daily)
14.Ciuchcia, a four-month-old dog, chases a cat in a courtyard at a shelter for homeless animals in Poland.
Ciuchcia’s rear legs were paralyzed after he was physically abused and abandoned with his two siblings on a
train track. The dog survived despite being run over by a number of trains.
(Reuters / Peter Andrews)
15.”Frank and Louie” is the world’s longest surviving “janus” feline. He’s 12-years-old. The cat, who’s name is
“Frank and Louie”, has two mouths, two noses and three eyes. Frank and Louie have one brain, so the faces
react in unison.
(Reuters / David Niles)[世界最年長の三眼ヤヌス猫。一つの脳を共有している]
16.Carrie Clark and Ted Garver remove her cat Tucker from her destroyed apartment in Joplin, Missouri. Clark
said she last saw him moments before Sunday’s deadly tornado and had found him only minutes before under a bed
frame.
17.A baby hippo and his mother Nicole are pictured at the Berlin Zoo.
(Reuters / Tobias Schwarz)
18.Tyson receives dental treatment at a veterinary clinic in Medellin, Colombia.
(Reuters / Albeiro Lopera)[歯の治療中のライオン。コロンビア]
19.Two-year-old chimpanzee “Do Do” feeds milk to “Aorn”, a 60-day-old tiger cub.
(Reuters / Sukree Sukplang)
20.Famous cross-eyed opossum Heidi inspects her new home at the newly built tropical hall of the Zoo in
Leipzig, Germany. Unfortunately, Heidi passed away in September.
(Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch)
21.A Kamchatka Brown Bear and one of her two three-month-old cubs share a kiss in Hamburg, Germany.
(Reuters / Fabian Bimmer)[有名な『ハイジ』という名前のオポッサム最近死んだ]
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寄り目のオポッサム「ハイジ」、ドイツの動物園で死ぬ
2011年 09月 29日 10:38 JST http://jp.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idJPJAPAN-23403120110929
22.A zoo keeper holds a 9-month-old baby orangutan orphan named Boo as he plays with a toy.
(Reuters / Andrea Comas )
23.A one year-old gorilla named Uzuri eats a salad at a zoo in Germany.
(Reuters / Ina Fassbender)
24.Zukhro, an employee of a Russian city zoo, walks with Vadik, an 18-month-old male lion.
(Reuters / Stringer Russia )
25.Ryo Taira lifts a porpoise out of a flooded rice field after it was swept by the tsunami and earthquake in
Sendai, Japan.
(Reuters / Asahi Shimbun)
26.Japan soldiers rescue a pet dog and a woman at a village which was flooded due to typhoon Roke in Japan in
September. (Reuters)
27.Abandoned dogs look through the window of a flooded temple in Ayutthaya province in Thailand.
(Reuters / Chaiwat Subprasom )
28.From the photographer Mrs. Wai Chun:
“Taken in June this year during a game drive at Nakuru National Park in Kenya. Rounding a bend on the track I
came upon not one but seven of these magnificent young lions draped across the branches of an acacia tree. Some
are dozing and some are looking disdainfully at me. I was transfixed by these superb, regal creatures. What a
privilege for me to have witnessed this amazing moment.”
Via: designyoutrust.com
29.A little girl saves a baby lamb from a farm near the village of Kirkjubaejarklaustur in Iceland. People
living next to the glacier where the Grimsvotn volcano burst into life were most affected. Ash shut out
daylight and smothered buildings and vehicles.
[アイルランドの火山の近くで子羊を保護する少女。マスクは火山灰のためらしい]
30.From photographer Amy Sly:
“Amid the crowds of protestors and media in Zuccotti Park, this little guy was just hanging out on Danielle’s
shoulder. She found the squirrel a few months ago under a tree near her house after a heavy storm. Its legs
were broken and a veterinarian told her it likely wouldn’t recover. Instead of putting the squirrel down,
Danielle adopted it and nursed it back to health. Now they go everywhere together. The squirrel’s name is
Hazelnut, she likes peanut butter, and her leash is made of braided hemp.”
[デモ騒動中に彼女は足をケガしたリスを見つけ保護。今ではどこへ行くのもこのリスと一緒。]
31.Harper the Pitbull puppy was given away in a trash bag. She was so afflicted by a rigor-mortis-like
condition that she could barely move. Today, she’s walking almost like a normal dog.
“The whole world was against her, but she’s such a fighter,” said Erica Daniel, Harper’s foster mom.
“She’s a blessing. She’s awesome.”
Source: today.msnbc.msn.com
32.An Oklahoma woman suffering from depression has found solace in the company of a kangaroo, but local city
officials worry that the therapy pet ― a partially paralyzed kangaroo ― could become a public safety risk.
In the end, the two have been allowed to live together. Happily ever after.
33.Medo the bear plays with the Logar family dog in Podvrh village in central Slovenia,
(Reuters / Srdjan Zivulovic)[犬と一緒に遊ぶ子グマ]
34.A 7-year-old female elephant named Laxmi reaches with her trunk to touch her 13-month old daughter in India.
(AP / Kevin Frayer)
35.A baby dolphin with its umbilical cord still attached was found beached near Montevideo city, Uruguay.
Luckily, a rescue organization got involved and and nursed the little guy back to health.
(Reuters / ANDRES STAPFF)
36.Mammals keeper Kylie Hackshall gets close to a baby spotted-tail quoll.
(Getty Images / GREG WOOD)
37.A woman comforts her dog during an aftershock at an evacuation center for pets and their owners in Japan.
(Reuters / Kim Kyung Hoon)
38.Jonna Baquillas holds her pet, a rescued cat named Rue, for an event to benefit the Philippine Animal
Welfare Society in Manilla, Philippines. (AP)
[フィリピン動物福祉協会(PAWS)で保護された猫。赤ずきんの格好させられてます]
39.A dog wanders around the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.
Source: dedicatedtothemysterysurroundingthe2tsunamidogs.com
[福島の立ち入り禁止区域で彷徨う犬]
40.A dog looks out from a window as a woman comes out from the door of her house in the ancient city of
Bhaktapur near Nepal’s capital.
(Reuters / Navesh Chitrakar)
41.Alex, a seven-year-old German shepherd, guards the body of her mother, Lexus. Lexus passed away in a tornado
on April 27 in Concord, Alabama.
(Reuters / Ho New)
42.Christina Kosorygina weighs a one-month-old jaguar cub at the Leningrad city zoo in St. Petersburg, Russia.
45.A pet bear sits among residents who escaped to higher ground from their flooded village in the Tando
Allahyar district of Pakistan.
(Reuters / Akhtar Soomro)
46.Jess, a seven-year-old female cat, looks on as a mouse runs by in a back yard in Gosport, England.
(Reuters / Kevin Coombs )[メス猫のジェスは裏庭でネズミをじっと見ています]
47.A veterinarian and an animal shelter owner in Sao Paulo, Brazil take care of a paralyzed lion. The lion,
who’s name is Ariel, was born with a degenerative disease that has left him unable to use his four legs for the
past year. (AP)[生まれつき全身麻痺のライオンの世話をしているブラジル獣医師]
48.Misty Pate loads her dogs Abby and Roani along with her other pets in her truck as she prepares to evacuate
from a forest fire in Springerville, Arizona.
(Reuters / Joshua Lott)
49.Loukanikos, the riot dog, watches as riot policemen try to avoid an exploding petrol bomb thrown by
protesters during a demonstration in Athens, Greece.
(Reuters / YANNIS BEHRAKIS)
50.Dogs take part in the 2011 Surfing Dog competition in California.
(AP / Cindy Yamanaka)[カリフォルニアの2011ドッグサーフィン大会に出場する犬たち]