Photos of the Day: Funky Pets and Swiss Cows

Johannesburg, South Africa

A ballet dancer prepares backstage during the final dress rehearsal for Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky at the Joburg Ballet

Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA

Naypyidaw, Myanmar

A man adds wood to the fire as elephant tusks are burned during a ceremony to destroy confiscated wildlife parts. Elephant skin, clouded leopard parts and tiger bone were among the hundreds of animal parts worth $1.3m razed in the first public display of action against its prolific illegal wildlife trade

Photograph: Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images