SFGate: Day in Pictures

Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010

Winner, winner, chicken dinner: Instead of turkey for Thanksgiving, tigers at the Jiufeng Forest Zoo in Wuhan, China, are having chicken. Or at least the one on the left is.

What's good on the tube? The slopes in the Sierra - right now. Here, Hannah Philpott blasts through new powder on her inner tube at Cisco Grove, Calif.

One size fits all: In support of Qatar's bid to host the 2022 World Cup, Qatar Petrochemical Co. made the world's largest soccer jersey.

Well, that's one way to 'spare' a turkey for Thanksgiving: Science teacher Scott Sivills rolls a frozen turkey down a hall at Calloway County High in Murray, Ky., in a rousing tournament of turkey bowling.

He always hits it on the nose: PGA golfer Louis Oosthuizen tees the ball on fellow pro Rory McIlroy's face as renowned trick shot artist David Edwards takes a full swing on the driving range at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai.

Can't I just stay with you guys? Lowery Park Zoo keepers and Florida conservation activists prepare a morose-looking manatee called TECO 2 for release back to the wild in Apollo Beach.

American handstand: New York City subway dancer Marcus Walden, a.k.a. "Mr Wiggles," shows off some moves between 125th Street in Harlem and the Brooklyn Bridge.

Sync and swim: A diver practices before the start of synchronized-diving events at Aoti Aquatics Centre in Guangzhou, China, host of the 16th Asian Games.

Got any Bromo-Seltzer? Steams billows from Mount Bromo Volcano in the Pasuruan district of East Java. Indonesia issued an eruption alert for the volcano less than a month after Mount Merapi Volcano in Central Java killed more than 300 people.

Security pit stop: A traveler with a prosthetic leg undergoes the new enhanced pat-down from a TSA officer during screening at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

'New' species is a total nerd: For centuries apparently, this unassuming, 3.7-inch-long marine species has been minding its own beeswax in the deepest trenches of the Indian Ocean between Indonesia and the Philippines. Then one day recently, some scientist finds it, declares it "discovered" and names it a "squidworm."

It goes nowhere in style: Lights decorate a bridge in Dandong, China, that ends in the middle of the the Yalu River separating North Korea and China. The span was bombed by the United States in 1950 during the Korean War.

The three-headed kind: It takes a special kind of person to model Georgian designer George Keburia's outfits at Fashion Week in Tbilisi.