Beautiful photos of animals in 2009

Monkey driving toy machine, dog wearing stylish black glasses. Here are the most beautiful animal photos of the year by Reuters.

The white whale Aurora, 20, swims with her newly born child in Vancouver, Canada.

The boy swims with the buffalo under the Tawi River during the summer day in Jammu, India.

A white bear shook off the water at the zoo in Quebec, Canada.

A baby monkey drinks water in a pool in Henan Province, China.

A gibbon was held by her mother in the zoo in Vienna, Austria.

A dressed dog participates in a pet festival in Cali, Colombia.

Circus actor takes the monkey sitting on a toy motorcycle in the rain in Jakarta, Indonesia.

A salamander sits on a chair taking photos during a training session with her mistress in a suburb of Bangkok, Thailand.

Three poodle dogs pose in dog festivals in Tokyo, Japan.