An African spurred tortoise (Geochelone sulcata) with two heads and five legs is displayed in Zilina. 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.
Luntik, a three-month-old kitten with four ears, looks on in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok. There are no ear canals in Luntik's second pair of ears. The kitten lives at an automobile service station.
Uthen 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. 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.
Venus (L), a Chihuahua missing its front legs, stands next to her brother in Port Washington, New York. Three Chihuahuas, each missing their front legs, have been given a chance at life by the North Shore Animal League America.
A cat with different coloured eyes looks out of its cage at the Ghamadan Zoo near Amman.
A five-month Wallaby albino is seen inside its Red Necked mother's pouch at their enclosure at Buenos Aires' zoo, Argentina
A baby albino alligator swims at Sao Paulo's Aquarium. Sao Paulo's Aquarium, South America's biggest thematic aquarium, holds two rare albino alligators, both measuring about 44-centimetres
Two-week-old Sri Lankan Albino cobras move at the National Zoological Gardens in Colombo
A rare albino axolotl, a type of salamander that uniquely spends its whole life in its larval form
An albino baby turtle swims with green sea babies turtle in a pond at Khram island, about 30 km (19 miles) from Pattaya, east of Bangkok. Special care is given to around 15,000 green and hawksbill baby turtles hatched and housed at the navy's conservation center each year. Once the baby turtles' shells are big and strong enough to protect them from various predators at about six-months-old the young turtles are released to the sea.
Two 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. 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
A white albino Japanese Rat Snake