> A four week old Giant Red Kangaroo baby looks up from its mother's pouch at the Zoo in Berlin, August 10, 2010. (ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images)
> A donkey transports ballot boxes to villages unreachable by vehicles in Panjshir province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan on September 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
> A Greyhound competes during the Greyhound World Championship in Rabapatona, Hungary on September 4, 2010 . (REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo)
> Two same-age salmon, one a genetically modified salmon (rear), the other a non-genetically modified salmon (foreground) appear in this photo provided by AquaBounty Technologies. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently been studying whether to approve marketing a genetically engineered animal as safe for people to eat. (AP Photo/AquaBounty Technologies)
> Swallow (right), an 11-year-old cow from Yorkshire poses next to Freddie the bull in this photo provided by Guinness World Records. The minuscule cow has been named the world's smallest by the Guinness World Records book. The sheep-sized bovine measures roughly 33 inches (84 cm) from hind to foot. (AP Photo/Ranald MacKechnie/Guinness World Records)
> A helicopter is used by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to gather wild horses in the Conger Mountains near Border in Utah on September 7, 2010. The BLM plans to round-up approximately 480 wild horses for placement in the BLM's adoption program or long-term pastures. (REUTERS/Jim Urquhart)
> A cat eyes a squirrel as it makes its way along a fence in Ormond Beach Florida on Wednesday morning, September 8, 2010. Cat and squirrel parted without incident. (AP Photo/Daytona Beach News-Journal, Jim Tiller)
> A five-day-old Asian elephant calf helps his auntie to raise her foot for the keeper at the Melbourne Zoo, on September 15, 2010. The un-named, first-ever male calf to be born at Melbourne Zoo, weighed in at a hefty 142.2kg, much heavier than a normal calf. (WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images)
> A young female snow leopard and her mother Laura (left) eye a piece of meat on September 9, 2010 at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany. Three snow leopards were born at the zoo on May 6, 2010. (JAN WOITAS/AFP/Getty Images)
> A surf dog wipes out during the annual Surf City Surf Dog competition at Huntington Beach in California on September 19, 2010. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
> Jasradj, an Indian lion relaxes with his head resting on a large rock in his enclosure on September 15, 2010 at the Zurich zoo. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
> USGS Wildlife Biologist Tony Fischbach lies on the beach observing a tagged walrus near Point Lay, Alaska on September 7th, 2010. Tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in northwest Alaska because the sea ice they normally rest on has melted. Federal scientists say this massive move to shore by walruses is unusual in the United States. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey)
> A young black bear falls from a tree safely into a net on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 after being darted with a tranquilizer near downtown Missoula, Montana. A crew from Northwestern Energy helped hold the net with officials from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The bear, a 70-pound yearling, had been roaming near downtown before being chased into the tree. (AP Photo/Missoulian, Kurt Wilson)
This rare leucistic Chinstrap penguin spotted in Antarctica on Monday lacks the standard black-and-white coloring of most penguins.Animals 'make friends' just like us, scientist finds : News by bbc.co.uk
A scientist in Scotland has discovered that animals operate in groups of friends, just like humans.Dr David Lusseau from the University of Aberdeen has spent ten years studying the behaviour of animals.He says that just as humans use online networks like Facebook and Twitter, animals get together in groups to share information.And who knows, perhaps just like us, they sometimes gossip about each other too!
