Bundle of bliss: The bent ear. The finger nook. Stop it, Nala, you're killing us with your 3-month-old leonine cuteness. And as for you, Regina Hamza, lion keeper at Serengeti Safari Park in Hodenhagen, Germany, you have one great job.
Big game hunting in Cleveland Heights, Ohio: Birds can't see you if you don't move -- or at least that seems to be the working theory here.
Spread eagle: Gabby takes off from the gauntleted hand of keeper Claudia Biancai at a park overlooking Sydney Harbor. The wedge-tailed eagle, Australia's largest bird of prey, is training to star in the zoo's daily bird shows.