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A grasshopper rests on a branch in Rajasthan, India
Photograph: Himanshu Sharma/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
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Huan Huan, a giant panda, cradles the twin cubs she just gave birth to at Beauval zoo in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, France
Photograph: Guillaume Souvant/AFP/Getty Images
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A deer peeps out from foliage on Mount Wakakusa, a hill overlooking Nara city, Japan
Photograph: Takahiro Yoshida/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock
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Common red soldier beetles mate on a thistle head in Dunsden, Oxfordshire, UK
Photograph: Geoff Swaine/REX/Shutterstock
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Silver-studded blue butterflies (Plebejus argus) get acquainted on Prees Heath in Shropshire, UK
Photograph: Dave Collins/Alamy
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A chameleon moves to escape from wildfires that have spread north from the Manavgat district of Antalya, Turkey
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Men gather sheep to take them away from an advancing fire in Mugla, Marmaris district. Turkey is struggling against its deadliest wildfires in decades as a blistering heatwave grips south-east Europe
Photograph: Yasin Akgul/AFP/Getty Images
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Hunter McKee pets Rosy after helping evacuate the horse to the edge of Lake Almanor, in California, United States, as the Dixie fire approaches
Photograph: Noah Berger/AP
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A stray dog walks during a wildfire in northern suburbs of Athens, Greece. Residents have been evacuated and firefighters have fought a round-the-clock battle to stop the flames just outside the birthplace of the ancient Olympics
Photograph: Michael Varaklas/AP
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A Rothschild’s giraffe tends to her baby in the Soysambu Conservancy, Kenya. Giraffes are attentive mothers and female adults in a group are invested in each other’s offspring. Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants, a University of Bristol study suggested this week
Photograph: Zoe Muller/School of Biological Sciences/Bristol University
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Boys play among a herd of buffaloes in the Diyala River, east of Baghdad. As Iraq bakes amid a blistering summer heatwave, its farmers and herders are contending with severe water shortages that are harming their animals, fields and way of life
Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images
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A pink flamingo stands among flamingo chicks in a pen in Aigues-Mortes, near Montpellier, France, during an annual tagging and controlling operation
Photograph: Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images
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A rare and endangered Przewalski foal, born at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Przewalski’s horse, also known as the Mongolian wild horse, it is the world’s last “truly wild” species of horse, say zookeepers
Photograph: ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
