Cute, funny or heartbreaking, animals have helped provide some light relief throughout the mad news year of 2011.
One deft monkey took self portraits with a skill replicated only on MySpace, while a chimp in Thailand learnt how to nurse tiger cubs with bottled milk.
Patient pooches have become internet stars with owner's creative costumes, while Boo the Pomeranian was unofficially named the "world's cutest dog."
A nod has to be given to the BBC's Frozen Planet for providing some of the best animal stories of the year, from podgy penguins to rutting musk ox. Fantastic footage showed fluffy baby polar bears emerging from ice nests and slippery seals sliding into the black depths of the Arctic ocean.
The antics of criminal penguins and blundering bison became hits on YouTube as well as impressing viewers at home. The final episode of Frozen Planet, focusing on climate change, is a warning to all animal lovers to look after our furry or feathered friends,
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