16th August 2009

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Attention-hogging squirrel says cheese

Honeymooners Melissa and Jackson Brandts were all set up for a vacation photo in Alberta, Canada, when a cheeky squirrel popped up and siezed the opportunity to SHINE.

According to the AP (via NYDN), the Brandts, both 29, from Minnesota, were posed on the shore of Lake Minnewanka with the camera set up on a rock nearby. The timer went off, the flash flashed, the squirrel had perfect timing. (They think the curious rodent was attracted by the sound of the camera focusing.)

The couple sent in the photo to a National Geographic contest and has since received admiring emails and phone calls from Canada, Australia, Italy and South Korea.

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11th May 2009

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Slide show: beasts in living color

Above, a rhino crossing a road during the rhino census in Pobitora, India, home of the world’s densest rhonocerous population. This is one of many breathtaking slides from the Washington Post’s latest “Animal Views” slide show.

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