The 15-weeks-old rescue Chihuahua puppy has been named “Roo,” since he loves to hop on his hind legs.
ReutersStumpy, a three-legged duck, is photographed from below standing on a plate of glass at Warrawee Duck Farm near Southampton in southern England April 17, 2007. Stumpy was born with four legs, but now only has three after one of his spare legs was amputated after he caught it in a fence. ReutersThe world's only albino gorilla, Snowflake, plays with a rope in this November 13, 2003 file picture. Snowflake died in Barcelona's zoo early November 24 after a long struggle with skin cancer. ReutersTwo conjoined Nile Tilapia fish, dubbed "Siamese Twin", swim in a small aquarium in Bangkok October 3, 2008. They are both eight months old and share part of the skin together. The bigger fish tends to protect the smaller one from harm while the smaller one looks for food at the bottom of the aquariumReutersAbout 10 million dogs in China are killed for their fur, prompting an animal rights group to seek a ban on fur trade to Australia. The dog fur are used are inside lining for ugg boots.ReutersTwo piglets, which were given birth by a transgenic pig, are irradiated under ultraviolet radiation showing their green fluorescence protein (GFP) feature at a hogpen in Harbin, Heilongjiang province January 7, 2008. A fluorescent green Chinese pig has given birth to two piglets which share their mother's transgenic characteristic after she mated with an ordinary pig, state media said. Picture taken January 7, 2008. ReutersZorse 'Eclyse', a zebra-horse hybrid foal is pictured in the Safari park in Holte-Stukenbrock near the western German city of Bielefeld June 27, 2007. One-year-old Eclyse was accidentally produced when her mother a zebra, was taken from her German safari park home to a ranch in Italy for a brief time. Ecylse who was born in Italy, has stripes on her head and rear, while the body and her legs are white. ReutersUthen Youngprapakorn, executive director of Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo, looks at a pair of newly-born rare baby crocodile twins, joined at the hips, southeast of Bangkok on June 26, 2001. The Thai farm, home to many thousands of fresh water crocodiles which are both on display to the public and also killed for their skin and meat, is appealing for international help to save the reptiles.ReutersA white albino Japanese Rat Snake is seen at a snake viewing facility in Iwakuni, southwestern Japan, April 15, 2008. ReutersA rare albino axolotl, a type of salamander that uniquely spends its whole life in its larval form, crawls inside an aquarium at Aquaria KLCC in Kuala Lumpur, November 30, 2008. New surveys by scientists in 2009 suggest that only between 700 and 1,200 Mexican axolotls are left in the wild, in the Xochimilco area of the Mexican Central Valley. ReutersA Royal python which was born with two heads, is pictured on the ground at the reptile and amphibian shop of Stefan Broghammer in Weigheim near Stuttgart July 4, 2011. The snake, which was born one year ago, has two spinal cords and two heads, both of which are active. Also know as a Ball python, the reptile has no physical problems or defects says Broghammer, and even manages to eat and digest food without difficulty. ReutersBahier, a male liger, is pictured in his enclosure at the private zoo "Arche Noah" in the village of Groemitz on the Baltic Sea coast July 17, 2007. The liger, a result of a breeding of a male lion and a female tiger, was born in the 31-year old private zoo in 1990. ReutersSri Lankan man swallows live 2-foot cobra
ReutersAn African spurred tortoise (Geochelone sulcata) with two heads and five legs is displayed in Zilina March 7, 2011. The two-headed tortoise, which has been given the two names Magda (left head) and Lenka, is seven weeks old and was born in Slovakia. ReutersA photo of a sheep with four horns.ReutersA baby albino alligator swims at Sao Paulo's Aquarium January 10, 2007. Sao Paulo's Aquarium, South America's biggest thematic aquarium, holds two rare albino alligators, both measuring about 44-centimetres. ReutersLuntik, a three-month-old kitten with four ears, looks on in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok August 11, 2010. There are no ear canals in Luntik's second pair of ears. The kitten lives at an automobile service station. ReutersUltra-Orthodox Jewish children hold their family's four legged chicken in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood June 28, 2011. The rare chicken has sparked a religious debate regarding its kosher label, which can only be determined once it is slaughtered, according to local media. ReutersA woman holds a baby tortoise with two heads in Havana September 27, 2005. The tortoise was found some days ago on a river bank at the city forest. According to scientists of the local aquarium who inspected the animal, it seems to be perfectly healthy.ReutersReptile and amphibian shop owner Stefan Broghammer holds a Royal python which was born with two heads, at his shop in Weigheim near Stuttgart July 4, 2011. The snake, which was born one year ago, has two spinal cords and two heads, both of which are active. Also know as a Ball python, the reptile has no physical problems or defects says Broghammer, and even manages to eat and digest food without difficulty. Reuters
