Pelusa, a fourteen-year-old female polar bear, look through the bars of her cage at Mendoza's Zoo, some 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) west of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, July 22, 2003. Pelusa, normally white, turned violet after veterinarians administered a drug to treat a skin's infection. Veterinarians said she should turn to her normal color within a month. (AP Photo/Walter Moreno-Los Andes)



Glowing mice : A fluorescent mouse family, provided by the Level Biotech, a transgenic company, is displayed inside a box during the Bio Taiwan 2003 at the World Trade Center in Taipei. The mice were implanted with the green fluorescent gene into the mice embryo combining genetic engineering and transplantion technology. (AFP/Sam Yeh)



Swimming piglet : A miniature Potbelly pig keeps his snout out of the water during his swimming race at the DuPage County Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL. (AFP/Jeff Haynes



Polar backstroke : A polar bear cub slides on his back from a snow's hillock in Moscow's Zoo. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)



Croc : A young saltwater crocodile enticed by meat lunges out of the murky waters of the Adelaide River, near Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. (AFP/Greg Wood)


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