Paws make good pillows: A Sumatran tiger cub rolls over on its sibling (partially obscured) at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington.
Paws make good pillows: A Sumatran tiger cub rolls over on its sibling (partially obscured) at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington.
Now cough twice: A veterinarian gives a rhino a fence-side physical at a zoo in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
Just a bit inside: The Phillies' Jimmy Rollins takes one right between the eyes, compliments of the Indians' very own Nuke LaLoosh, Cliff Lee. Rollins stayed in the game.
Tricks are for kids: A Eurasian crane chick pecks at morsels offered by a spoonbill at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, England. The crane-breeding project uses mechanical adults so the baby birds won't imprint on humans.
Macaw aboard! Susan Kleven and Tommy McPherson of the Frank Buck Zoo ferry a parrot from the zoo's flooded bird house in Gainesville, Texas. At least five people were killed by high water in a handful of North Texas towns.
Breath of life for a pet in peril: Firefighters give a white rat oxygen after pulling it out of a burned cage during a house fire in Pocatello, Idaho. It survived the blaze along with five of the six cats in the home.
A firefighter takes a moment after helping douse a fire that claimed the lives of nine of his comrades at a furniture warehouse in Charleston, S.C. The firemen were killed when the roof collapsed in what was described as a "tornado of flame."
Neck to neck: Dragon boat rowers paddle furiously in a race near Hong Kong's Aberdeen Island. The Dragon Boat Festival races honor Chu Yuan, an ancient Chinese scholar-statesman who drowned in 277 B.C. while denouncing government corruption.
A head for the horses: It's time again for England's Royal Ascot meeting, a series of horse races watched by uppercrust Brits in silly hats. Yevette Jelfs' lovely burlap-and-dead-fern ensemble was by no means the silliest.
Fly drops: Water clings to a leaf after a welcome rain drenches the Jeffers' Bend Botanical Garden in Hopkinsville, Ky.
