A new blue phalaenopsis orchid called "Blue Mystique" is sold by Bachman's florists in Minneapolis. The color is achieved using a patented process from Europe that colors the flowers from the inside. (Chris Polydoroff/The St. Paul Pioneer Press via Associated Press)




A colony of Gentoo penguins enters the water at the Sea Life London Aquarium in central London. The nine Gentoos are a new adition to the aquarium after being transfered from Edinburgh Zoo's thriving colony. (Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images)




A cat clings to a rock surrounded by rapids in Akron Falls Park in Akron, N.Y. (David Duprey/Associated Press)




A giant panda cub holds on to a log at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China. (China Daily/Reuters)




A black rhino is transported by helicopter in South Africa. Nineteen of the critically endangered animals established by the WWF Black Rhino Range Expansion Project were moved from the Eastern Cape to a new location in Limpopo province. (Green Renaissance-World Wildlife Fund/Associated Press)




Csui, a male African leopard, reacts after being vaccinated in Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Hungary. (Attila Balazs/Associated Press)




A bird sits on a perch in Sausalito, Calif., as clouds passed over the San Francisco skyline. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)




Tam Dao, a -week-old Francois leaf monkey, is presented to the media at Taronga zoo in Sydney. Less than , of the monkeys exist in the wild. (Daneil Munoz/Reuters)




A polar bear jumps into the water at the St.-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in Quebec. (Mathieu Belanger/Reuters)




A cicada emerges from its shell at a home in Fort Smith, Ark. There are more than , species of cicada. (Kaia Larsen/Times Record via Associated Press)




A -day-old African spurred tortoise, one of eight babies, sunbathes on its mother's head in the animal park in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary. (Attila Balazs/MTI via Associated Press)




An owl perches in front of Greenpeace activists who were arrested for raising an inflatable model of a wind turbine in front of Congress in Brasilia. (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)




Long-tailed mayflies mate on the surface of the Tisza river near Tiszakurt, Hungary. Millions of these short-lived mayflies engage in a frantic rush to mate and reproduce before they perish in just a few hours. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)




A pink flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) rests at the zoo in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia. (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images)




Sheep graze on a field at the Siennese clays area near Asciano, Italy. The Crete Senesi, located in Tuscany, consists of an untouched natural landscape of hills and woods. (Max Rossi/Reuters)




An Asian elephant sprays sand in its enclosure at the zoo in Karlsruhe, Germany. (Alex Domanski/Reuters)




Shinmoedake volcano erupts between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures, Japan. (Kyodo/Reuters)




Rapeseed blooms in a field near Prevonloup, Switzerland. ( Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)




A pair of great gray owls, or Lapland owls, sit inside an open air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.( Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)




Tree frogs sit on a leaf at an amphibian feeding camp outside Hanoi. Vietnam's first amphibian breeding farm was established in with the aim of promoting environmental awareness, conservation, and for export as pets. (Kham /Reuters)




A turtle swims with sardines at the COEX Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea. (Lee Jin-man/Associated Press)




A duck sits on top of volcanic ash from the eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano on a farm west of Skaftafell, Iceland. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)




A hawk attacks a rabbit during an annual traditional hunting competition near the village of Uzynagash, Kazakhstan. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)




An eight-month-old baby sloth Camillo yawns at the zoo in Halle, eastern Germany. (Waltraud Grubitzsch/DPA via AFP/Getty Images)