Photos: Animals of January

Posted Jan 28, 2013

Kicking off a new year of our monthly roundup of the best photographs of beasts and birds (and one frog).

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Japanese macaque monkeys huddle together on a cold day at Awajishima Monkey Center, January 26, 2013 in Sumoto, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. (Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)
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A young Chinese boy photographs White-Cheeked Gibbons at the Beijing Zoo on January 21, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON
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A six-week-old pygmy slow lorus with its mother at the zoo in Szeged, Hungary, on January 24, 2013. CSABA SEGESVARI/AFP/Getty Images
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Nicolas Almagro of Spain poses with a wombat at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, January 18, 2013. REUTERS/Fiona Hamilton/Tennis Australia/Handout
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A squirrel in a park, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on January 27 2013. AFP PHOTO / VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO
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A squirrel in a park, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on January 27 2013. AFP PHOTO / VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO
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A red panda at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, January 16, 2013. REUTERS/Herwig Prammer
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Giant panda cub Xiao Liwi during its first public outing at the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California, January 10, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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A pair of 19-day-old jaguar cubs at the Milwaukee County Zoo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. REUTERS/Milwaukee County Zoo/Handout.
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Kittens in a private volunteer animal shelter in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don January 11, 2013. REUTERS/Vladimir Konstantinov
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"I despise you all": A Maine coon cat at the Athens 21st International Cat Show January 27, 2013. REUTERS/John Kolesidis
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Puppies in a kennel where border guard dogs are bred and trained near Smorgon, Belarus, January 11, 2013. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
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Huskies during a training session for a sled dog race at Feshiebridge, in Aviemore, Scotland, January 23, 2013. REUTERS/David Moir
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A flock of starlings flies near the southern Israeli city of Netivot. January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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A black swan in the Kaisergarten in Oberhausen, Germany, January 17, 2013. AFP PHOTO / ROLAND WEIHRAUCH
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A polar bear rolls in the snow at the zoo in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Sven Hoppe)
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A 1-month-old buffalo nibbles its elder at a Budapest zoo, January 22, 2013. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images)
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Helen's flying frog, a species discovered in Vietnam in 2009 by an Australian researcher who named it after her mother. Its large webbed feet allow it to glide or parachute through the forest canopy. (Reuters)
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Mountain goats in their enclosure at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany, January 4, 2013. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender
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A kangaroo flees from a bushfire in south-eastern Victoria state January 18, 2013 in this handout image taken from a video by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. REUTERS/Australian Broadcasting Corporation/Handout