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An orange-breasted waxbill (Amandava subflava) from a private collection.

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An baby eyelash frog or Solomon island leaf frog (Ceratobatrachus guentheri) at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo.

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Checkered keelback or Asiatic water snake (Xenochrophis piscator) at Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden, Ahmedabad, India.

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A full grown Madagascan dwarf chameleon (Brookesia minima) in Madagascar. This species is endangered.

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A full grown Madagascan dwarf chameleon (Brookesia minima) in Madagascar. This species is endangered.

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Bridled white-eye (Zosterops saypani) at the Sedgwick County Zoo. This species is listed on IUCN as Endangered.

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A silvereye or wax-eye (Zosterops lateralis) at Healesville Sanctuary.

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A federally endangered poweshiek skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek) at the Minnesota Zoo. There are only five adults in captivity, all at this zoo. There are just a few hundred left in the wild. Reason for its decline is still a mystery, but the catastrophic loss of prairie habitat due to farming/ethanol production are detrimental.

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The fingers from a black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) during surgery.

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An endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) at the Omaha Zoo.

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Endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis) at the Omaha Zoo.

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Endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis) at the Omaha Zoo.

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Mallard ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos) at Wildlife Rescue Team Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Mallard ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos) at Wildlife Rescue Team Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Mallard ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos) at Wildlife Rescue Team Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Mallard ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos) at Wildlife Rescue Team Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Mallard ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos) at Wildlife Rescue Team Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Mallard ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos) at Wildlife Rescue Team Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Mallard ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos) at Wildlife Rescue Team Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Bush meat shoppers pay to have the fur singed off a drill monkey in Malabo on Bioko island, Equatorial Guinea.

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A dead bait fish in a gloved hand covered with crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. This fish was found on the top of a thick oil slick.

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A dead bait fish in a gloved hand covered with crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. This fish was found on the top of a thick oil slick.

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Local women on Bioko Island inspect a severely infected finger.

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A Cameroon forest treefrog (Leptopelis brevirostris) from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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A young girl holds a bright pink gum ball in her hand.

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A critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) at the XCaret Resort in Mexico.

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A piping plover (Charadrius melodus). (US: Endangered)

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A federally endangered California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense) at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo in Fresno, California.
This species is listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN.

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An eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus consobrinus) collected in Cherry County, Nebraska.

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Utah milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum taylori) at the LA Zoo.

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A woman holds a juvenile blue jay near Walton, Nebraska.

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A whooper chick, (Grus americana), hatches at the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, WI.

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A whooper chick, (Grus americana), hatches at the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, WI. Shown is the egg almost fully rotated and placed in front of sound speakers that play the purring calls of adult whoopers. This stimulates the chick to finish hatching.

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