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Jays perched on garden tools in Aberystwyth, Wales.
Photograph: Philip Jones/Alamy Live News
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China’s famous herd of wandering elephants finally heads home after an epic 17-month journey that made international headlines. The elephants are pictured crossing a road bridge near Yuxi city in south-west China.
Photograph: AP
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A Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica), a species of scarab beetle, in Toronto, Canada.
Photograph: Creative Touch Imaging Ltd/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
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Two storks rescued from wildfires north of Athens, Greece.
Photograph: Louiza Vradi/Reuters
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A dog with burnt paws sleeps at a makeshift shelter near Athens.
Photograph: Louiza Vradi/Reuters
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A beaver swimming in Scotland, where the number of beavers has more than doubled in the last three years, according to a new study.
Photograph: Lorne Gill/NatureScot/PA
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A long-spined sea urchin seen near the city of Qalamoun, Lebanon. The species Diadema setosum, typically native to Indo-Pacific waters, is invading the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Photograph: Ibrahim Chalhoub/AFP/Getty Images
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An animal keeper from Eekholt wildlife parkin Germany prepares to release a red kite back into the wild. Two of the birds were raised at the park after falling from their nest.
Photograph: Dpa Picture Alliance/Alamy Live News/Alamy Live News.
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An American black bear lies tranquilised and restrained after making its way into a Ralph supermarket in Los Angeles, California.
Photograph: David Balen/Reuters
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A bloat of hippos bask in the sun at the Nanglomoni dam, inside Nairobi national park, Kenya.
Photograph: Daniel Irungu/EPA
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Flamingos fly over at Mogan Lake in Ankara, Turkey.
Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock
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A male fiddler crab (Afruca tangeri) in the roots of a black mangrove tree (Avicennia germinans) during diurnal low tide in Accra, Ghana.
Photograph: Muntaka Chasant/REX/Shutterstock
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Harrier chicks that successfully hatched following a protection project for the rare birds in Northumberland, UK.
Photograph: Forestry England/PA
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A ragwort blooms on the shore of the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia.
Photograph: Yelena Vereshchaka/TASS
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The annual gathering of the Tippbalake herd of Exmoor ponies at Brendon Common, UK. The ponies roam free on Exmoor and are rounded up once a year for health checks.
Photograph: REX/Shutterstock
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Sheep receive treatment at a field hospital in Turkey following severe wildfires. The hospital, opened by the Animal Rights Federation, provides free treatment to all animals affected by the forest fires.
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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A wolf yawns at the Iberian wolf centre in the Sierra de la Culebra, Spain. The hunting of wolves is due to be banned nationwide by the end of September.
Photograph: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images
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Cows graze in the field near Taylorsville as the Dixie fire continues to burn north of Greenville in Taylorsville, California, US.
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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A whiting is seen inside a jellyfish at Harlyn Bay beach, Cornwall, UK. Juvenile fish often use jellyfish tentacles for protection from large predators but are occasionally stung and eaten.
Photograph: Ian Watkin/Cornwall Wildlife Trust
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A flock of sheep crosses alpine terrain in Flaesch, Switzerland. During the so-called ‘schafuebergang’, 1,400 sheep wander from one meadow to the other, crossing on a steep, narrow alpine trail.
Photograph: Gian Ehrenzller/AP
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A newly hatched turtle makes its way to the sea at Davultepe coast in Mersin, Turkey. The first hatching of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) and green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) has now begun on the Davultepe coast.
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