ALBUM: The best wildlife photos of 2010

We bring you a collection of best wildlife photos of 2010 taken around the world.

A lion yawns at a nature reserve on the outskirsts of Pretoria, South Africa June 29, 2010.

Boreal owl chicks sit on a tree branch in a forest on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus.

Orangutan 'Harapan' plays with a pumpkin during a 'Halloween-breakfast' in its enclosure at the Hagenbeck Zoo in the northern German city of Hamburg.

Angelina, a seven-year-old Red Kangaroo, rests after receiving treatment for lumpy jaw disease at the Gan-Garoo Australian park, which features wildlife from Australia, near Kibbutz Nir David in northern Israel.

An African penguin swims in his pool at the Servion Zoo in Servion near Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ostriches look through a fence at an ostrich farm in the village of Yasnogorodka, some 50 km west from Kiev.

A White Peacock (Anartia Jatrophae) butterfly, a native of North and Central America, clings to a plant at the American Museum of Natural History's Butterfly Conservatory exhibit in New York.

Chimpanzee groom Yangyang (Left) kisses his bride Wanxing during their symbolic wedding at Hefei Wildlife Park in Hefei, Anhui province, China.

Two year-old octopus Paul, the so-called "octopus oracle" predicts Spain's 2010 soccer World Cup final victory over The Netherlands by choosing a mussel, from a glass box decorated with the Spanish national flag instead of a glass box with the Dutch flag, at the Sea Life Aquarium in the western German city of Oberhausen.

A Taipei tree frog climbs a leaf in Tucheng, Taipei County

Japanese macaques gather on a tyre at Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo, northern Japan.

A researcher dressed in a panda costume puts a panda cub into a box before its physical examination at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuanprovince. The 4-month old cub, the first in the centre to be trained for reintroduction into the wild, is monitored by hidden cameras. Researchers performing physical examinations on the cub wear panda costumes to ensure that the cub's environment is devoid of human influence, according to local media.

Baby sparrows cry out from a nest in Russia's city of Vladikavkaz

Kijivu, a western lowland gorilla, holds her newborn baby at Prague's zoo in Prague. Kijivu, 16, had her first offspring, a female named Moja in December 2004, followed by a male named Tatu in spring the 2007, according to local media reports.

An Andalusian horseman washes his Spanish thoroughbred horse before their performance during the Sacab Andalusian Horse Show in Coin, near the southern Spanish city of Malaga

One-year-old polar bear Ikor plays at Sapporo Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo, northern Japan