A family of rhesus macaques play and leapfrog each other in Rajasthan, north-western India
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A sizeable tortoise explores a market in Bangkok, Thailand
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A Bengal tiger walks through grassland at the Kaziranga national park, Assam, India
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A squirrel jumps in the snow at High Park in Toronto, Canada
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A black-and-white snub-nosed monkey at the Baima Snow Mountain national nature reserve in south-western China. The rare primates have cute and fluffy teddy-like faces, but when they bare their teeth, their alarmingly vampiric fangs are exposed
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Big baby … Renos-Pantelis, a five-month-old Mediterranean monk seal, has his weight checked at the Attica zoological park in Athens, Greece. The orphaned seal pup was found in difficulties off the coast of Cyprus, and was taken to Greece by boat to be treated. The monk seal is the only seal species in the Mediterranean; due to hunting it is critically endangered
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Flamingos feed in the Gediz delta, in İzmir, Turkey
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A white-tailed eagle, also known as a sea eagle, perches on an iceberg floating off Nuuk, western Greenland
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A baby monkey with its mother in an area known as Monkey Island, south of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The coastal wetlands were contaminated during the war but subsequently restored, and are now home to hundreds of monkeys – many of which, as the park-keepers repeatedly warn visitors, are practised pickpockets
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Veterinary staff feed an injured flying fox after Cyclone Alfred hit Byron Bay, Australia. Local wildlife centres have been inundated with animal patients since the storm hit; the one pictured here, Byron Bay wildlife hospital, took in a koala, an eastern grey kangaroo, sea turtle hatchlings and a swamp hen within a few hours of reopening its doors earlier this week
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Grey seals gather on the beach in Saltfleet, Lincolnshire, UK
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Cecilia Santos feeds a hummingbird in the home of her employer, Catia Lattouf, who has turned her Mexico City apartment into an unofficial hummingbird shelter. While recovering from cancer 14 years ago, Lattouf took in an injured bird and tended to it. Now she has dozens under her care. Once they are ready to live independently, she releases them in a wooded area outside the city
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European common brown frogs among frogspawn on the warmest day of the year so far in London, UK
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A rescued two-month-old male wild Sumatran elephant, separated from his mother in a palm oil plantation, sleeps at the Minas elephant training centre in Riau, Indonesia
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A burrowing owl looks disgruntled in Cape Coral, Florida, US. This is one of the few owl species that nest underground; they often take over disused burrows made by badgers, foxes or ground squirrels
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Sea lions recover at Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro, California, US. An algal bloom in the Pacific is poisoning wildlife, with the algae producing a neurological toxin called domoic acid that affects the sea lions’ brains and hearts, causing seizures. Seals and dolphins are also affected
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A duck rests on one foot at the Volksgarten (people’s garden) in Vienna, Austria
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A wild Sumatran tiger is evacuated from Agam district, Indonesia, to prevent conflict with humans. Sumatran tigers are listed as critically endangered, with less than 400 left in the wild
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