A green sea turtle hatchling attempts to find its way to the ocean on Heron Island, Australia. Each year between November and March, green sea turtles emerge from the ocean to lay hundreds of eggs each on the coastline of Heron Island, before returning to the ocean. The hatchlings emerge about six weeks later and then have to survive a series of predators ranging from seagulls to reef sharks, with an estimated survival rate of one in 1,000
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A Darwin’s frog at London zoo. It is one of more than 30 froglets of the endangered species born at the zoo after a dramatic 7,000-mile rescue mission in which their parents were extracted from their fungus-threatened native habitat in Chile
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The Darwin’s frog, named after Charles Darwin, was facing extinction after the introduction of the chytrid fungus to its habitat in the remote Parque Tantauco forests in southern Chile
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Beary the bear, who took up residence under a house in Altadena, California, during the wildfires. The home’s occupant, Samy Abrid, had to evacuate for the Eaton fire and when he returned home there was a different kind of challenge: a 240kg (525lb) black bear. It had moved into the crawl space under the house before the fire and was still there. The California fire department stepped in to lure the bear out with treats after deciding it was too big to tranquillise. The bear’s new home is the much more appropriate Angeles national forest
Photograph: California department of fish and wildlife

Giraffes in Nairobi national park, Kenya
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A Bengal tiger captured by a camera trap in Kaeng Krachan national park, Thailand. The tiger had three cubs with her
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Bengal tiger sightings are rare in Thailand. “This is the first time we have recorded a tiger raising three cubs in the national park,” said Mongkol Chaipakdee, the Kaeng Krachan national park chief
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A Eurasian badger appears to glance up at a graffiti badger on a quiet road in St Leonards-on-Sea, England. The image, No Access by Ian Wood, was voted the winner of the wildlife photographer of the year people’s choice award
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A fox on the banks of the River Dodder in Dublin, Ireland
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A whale entangled in a rope off the Isle of Skye. British Divers Marine Life Rescue said their medics worked to free the animal
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Bank mynas look out of a hole in a wall near the Pong wetland, which hosts thousands of migratory birds in winter months, in Nagrota Suriyan, Himachal Pradesh state, India
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A lychas tricarinatus scorpion in Tehatta, West Bengal, India. The scorpion, also known as the three-keeled bark scorpion, has a distinctive nodule on its venom gland, which it uses for defence and hunting
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A male California quail forages on a dead tree on a hillside near Elkton, in rural south-west Oregon. The California quail’s head plume, or topknot, looks like a single feather but is actually a cluster of six overlapping feathers
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Zebras in the Nairobi national park in Kenya
Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

A flock of Canadian geese at Rouge beach in Rouge national urban park, Ontario, Canada
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Spectators watch a starling murmuration over Brighton beach at sunset, on the English south coast
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Impalas in Kruger national park during golfers’ practice before the Africa Amateur Championship at Leopard Creek country club in Malelane, South Africa
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A wild short-eared owl flies over grassland near Deal in Kent, England, while hunting for food in the late afternoon sunshine. Short-eared owls mainly hunt during the daytime, flying low over moorland, grassland and saltmarshes where they feed on field voles and small birds
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Storks perch on an electricity pylon at the Tovlan landfill in the West Bank
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Flamingos feed at the Gediz delta, one of the important wetlands of Turkey, which is under threat from climate change, drought and pollution. The Gediz delta is among 14 wetlands of international importance in Turkey and hosts many bird species, especially flamingos
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