SFGate: Day in Pictures
Monday, Jun. 18, 2012
Wearing a boa to the birthday bash: Kirk Parker, general curator at the Chattanooga Zoo, holds Norris, a Dumeril's ground boa at the Tennessee zoo's 75th birthday celebration.
What do you mean, mine is going gray? Father Gregory Coiro gives a kiss to his lookalike Maggie, a Yorkie owned by Kelly Kaplan of San Francisco, at the annual Blessing of the Animals at the Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi during the North Beach Festival in San Francisco.
When pigs float: A man evacuates pigs through a flooded street in Manila after typhoon Guchol inundated many streets.
We'll keep our distance, thanks: Two Sumatran tigers keep a watch on visitors at the zoo in Frankfurt.
Might as well jump: A two-month-old Bennett's wallaby gets some advice from his mother at the zoo in Cali, Colombia.
Another boring election: This dog in Athens' Syntagma square on Greece's election day doesn't seem to care whether the country stays in the Eurozone, as long as austerity doesn't mean an end to meat snacks.
Get down here! A performance dog leaps with his trainer John Casey at the eighth annual Pooches in the Park day at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
Obscure superhero, Butterfly Woman: Korene Tom, known as Fortune Kookie, of San Francisco, hands over a balloon animal to a young customer at the North Beach Festival.
A more revealing butterfly: Katy Perry performs during the 2012 Much Music Video Awards in Toronto
Style points, anyhow: In women's beach volleyball, it isn't always easy to tell the players from these cheerleaders at the 3rd Asian Beach Games in Haiyang, China.
Making the family proud: Aerialist Nik Wallenda tighropes over the Niagara Falls, walking across the 1,800 foot long, 2 inch-wide wire as the first person to cross directly over the falls from the U.S. into Canada. Wallenda, 33, is a seventh-generation member of the legendary Flying Wallendas family. ABC televised the event and insisted the daredevil wear a teathered harness to prevent possible live coverage of a deadly fall.
Orangemen: Fans from Netherlands cheer prior to the begining of the match with Portugal in Euro 2012, but...
...it must have been the shoes: A Dutch fan sits dejected after Portugal eliminated the Netherlands 2-1.
Fresh set of canines: Two two-month old baby arctic wolves play in their enclosure in the zoo in Servion, Switzerland.
We'll have the triple fish filet: Three pelicans stand at the edge of a pond in their enclosure at the zoo in the German city of Frankfurt am Main.
Refugee: Pakistani girl Saima Hashim, 5, whose family was displaced by 2010 floods from a village in Pakistan's Sindh province, looks up while holding her doll in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad.
Headed for the smoke: Charlotte Frank, 8, throws a paper airplane near Hughes Stadium as the High Park Fire burns west of Fort Collins, Colo.
Don't let go: Russian figure skating pair Fiona Zaldua and Dmitry Sukhanov perform at the touring Artistry on Ice show in Shanghai.
Letting his head do the talking: Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba, one of the world's greatest soccer players, demonstrates during a press conference at a tournament in New Delhi.
Say 'Alp' when you leap: Backdropped by the Alps, youths dive into Lac Leman from a platform in Lutry, near Lausanne, Switzerland.