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A baby barking deer grazes near bar-headed geese inside Kaziranga national park in the Golaghat district of Assam, India
Photograph: Pranabjyoti Deka/EPA
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Konik ponies fight for dominance as the foaling season begins at the National Trust’s Wicken Fen nature reserve in Cambridgeshire
Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA
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Black-necked cranes flying at a national nature reserve in Linzhou county, Lhasa, capital of south-west China’s Tibet Autonomous Region
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
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Hunting for songbirds in the Kareumbi forest, Sumedang, Indonesia. Dedi Langlangbuana and Cecep Kenzi have worked as songbird hunters for 21 years. They trap the birds using a special net placed on top of the trees. In one catch, they can get 50 to 100 songbirds
Photograph: Algi Febri Sugita/SOPA Images/Rex/Shutterstock
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Vervet monkeys on the campus of Khartoum University in the Sudanese capital. Hundreds of monkeys that mainly live on rooftops also hop around freely among students who often give them treats
Photograph: Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP/Getty Images
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Bats flying over a building in the Abidjan CBD, Ivory Coast. Scientists say that bats are a crucial part of the food chain, but are also a suspected source of viruses, including Covid-19, that have leapt the species barriers to humans. Hunting and human encroachment on their habitat has heightened the risk of transmission
Photograph: Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images
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A striped hyena at the Animal Encounter environmental conservation centre in the Lebanese mountain town of Aley, south-east of the capital, Beirut
Photograph: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images
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People look at polar bears inside an enclosure at a newly opened hotel, which allows guests views of the animals from their rooms in Harbin, north-eastern China
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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Polish primitive horses (or the Polish Konik) in a paddock at the Roztocze national park in Zwierzyniec, south-eastern Poland. A Polish primitive horse is a pony breed from Poland that lives semi-feral in some regions
Photograph: Wojtek Jargilo/EPA
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Lions fight by Patrick Nowotny won the gold prize at the World Nature Photography awards
Photograph: Patrick Nowotny/World Nature Photography Awards
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An aerial view of elephants grazing in Kimana sanctuary in Kimana, Kenya, with Mount Kilimanjaro in the background. Kenyan elephants risk a slow extinction in a bleak, ever-shrinking ‘ecological island’ in one of the country’s most picturesque and photographed landscapes, according to a government report
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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It’s not the first time the harp seal pup observation season has been cancelled – since 2010 there have been five winters with insufficient ice in the Gulf of St Lawrence due to unseasonably warm temperatures. Little or no ice, or ice of poor quality, is not just a problem for the tourists, who can’t land in a helicopter, but also a problem for harp seals looking for an ice floe big enough to give birth on
Photograph: Mario Cyr
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Domesticated pigeons fly over the Syrian city of Raqqa
Photograph: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images
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A male houbara bustard dances in order to attract females for mating in the United Arab Emirates’ al-Dhafra desert
Photograph: Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images
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A rare Australian songbird, a female regent honeyeater, at the Capertee national park in New South Wales. A rapid decline in Australia’s rare regent honeyeater is killing off the bird’s ‘song culture’, with its young struggling to learn mating calls as adults disappear, according to new research
Photograph: David Stowe/Australian National University/AFP/Getty Images
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A sword-billed hummingbird at the El Paramuno ecological trail in Bogota, Colombia. A multitude of species of hummingbirds can be found on the hill of Monserrate, a green enclave in the middle of the busy capital city
Photograph: Carlos Ortega/EPA
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A whale washed up on Blyth beach, Northumberland
Photograph: Lee Smith/Reuters
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A palm tree catkin is covered in raindrops in a garden in Kaufbeuren, Germany
Photograph: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa
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A honey bee approaches the blossom of an acacia tree during sunny spring weather in London
Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP
