Animal Tracks

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Animal Tracks Another Picture Story
December 2004 January -2005
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• Pigs huddle together in a pen in Peralillo,
  Chile, Dec. 28.

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• Capt. Blaine Van Gansbeke, 26, of the 36th
  Engineer Group Construction, gets a lick from his
  dog Thelma at a deployment ceremony on Jan. 7 at
  Fort Benning, Ga. Approximately 80 soldiers from
  the 36th Engineer Group deployed to Iraq after
  the ceremony.

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• Marine biologists prepare to hoist a 30-year-old
  greenback turtle from a truck for its release
  into the sea about 80 miles north of the Thai
  resort island of Phuket on Jan. 10. The rare male
  turtle was swept inland near Phuket by the Dec.
  26 tsunami that battered Thailand's southwestern
  coastline. The animal was recovered by soldiers
  and needed treatment for an injured flipper.

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• Pumpkin the cat prepares to attack his reflection
  in a mirror during a garage sale along U.S.
  Highway 301 in Belleview, Fla., Jan. 7. Pumpkin's
  owners, the Cole family, were holding the garage
  sale to help raise money for victims of the Asian
  tsunami.

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• A sea bird known as a grebe catches a fish in the
  Adriatic Sea near Split, Croatia, Dec. 15.

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• With the temperature hovering near 10 degrees
  below Fahrenheit, a frost-coated horse stands in
  a field as the sun rises on Gore Hill near Great
  Falls, Mont., Jan. 5

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• An elephant takes a moment to cool itself down
  while clearing debris Jan. 6 from an area
  destroyed by the tsunami in Banda Aceh,
  Indonesia.

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• Chloee Toro, 5, enjoys the snowy weather with her
  dog Misty in Rockford, Ill., during a snowstorm
  Jan. 5.

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• A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami on
  the coast of Kenya snuggles up to its new best
  friend, a giant century-old tortoise, in an
  animal facility in Mombasa, Kenya, on Jan. 6. The
  hippo, nicknamed Owen, weighs about 650 pounds.
  Owen was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian
  Ocean, then forced back to shore when the tsunami
  struck the Kenyan coast on Dec. 26.

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• A Lesser Flamingo twists its neck and fluffs its
  feathers to remove water from its body, Jan. 5 at
  Cameron Park Zoo in Waco, Texas.

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• A newborn puppy rests Jan. 2 in the only building
  left standing after the tsunami struck the
  surfing resort of Ullai Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka. A
  mother dog, one of the only living things on the
  resort island to survive, dug a small shelter out
  of the destroyed bath house and gave birth.

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• A seagull leaves a trail through the snow Jan. 6
  in Vancouver, Canada, after a cold front from
  Alaska left the lower Canadian coast in an
  unusual deep freeze.

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• A bird feeds on insects from the face of a white
  rhinoceros at the Singapore Zoological Garden,
  Dec. 14. Two white rhinos, classified as
  threatened with extinction, were recently born at
  the zoo.

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• South African musher Lynton McLean drives his dog
  team along the trail of the Copper Basin 300 Sled
  Dog Race near Glennallen, Alaska, on Jan. 10. The
  competition is one of the qualifying races for
  the Iditarod Trial Sled Dog Race.

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• A cat peers out from a pile of discarded lanterns
  at Aspen Hill Memorial Park, a pet cemetery in
  Silver Spring, Md., that dates back to the 1920s.
  The statue in the foreground is one of many
  versions of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron
  saint of animals, found in the cemetery. The
  current owner of the park is beset with legal and
  financial problems and may have to close it down.

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• Three of ten wolves released Dec. 16 in a wolf
  wildlife park in Saint-Martin-Vesubie, France,
  play with each other. The park, named 'Alpha
  Center,' is to be inaugurated in April 2005. The
  ten newly released wolves come from the Czech
  Republic.

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• Fozzy, a rehabilitated great horned owl, is shown
  Dec. 7 in Baker City, Ore. Fozzy is used to help
  school children learn about wildlife.

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• Love blossoms between meerkats Marvin and Mara
  under some mistletoe at the London Zoo on Dec.
  22.

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• Two North American bison are framed by a frosty
  fence on Dec. 29, north of Cannon Ball, N.D.,
  after dense fog moved through the region.

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• Corrections Chief Scott Hassell holds the button
  as basset hound Fred drinks from a water fountain
  Dec. 14 in the Etowah County Jail in Gadsden,
  Ala. Fred was nearing the end of his training
  with inmates and was waiting for adoption.

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• A squirrel searches for food inside a coffee cup
  found blowing in the wind in Saginaw, Mich., on
  Dec. 21.

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