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A vicuna near the Salar del Hombre Muerto, 4,000 metres above sea level in Argentina.
Photograph: Agustin Marcarian/Reuters
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An aerial view of a flock of sheep in search of water on a dried up lake bed during the worst drought in a decade in Enna, Sicily.
Photograph: Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images
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The two panda cub twins named Fleur de Coton and Petite Neige sleep in an incubator at Beauval zoo in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, France.
Photograph: Guillaume Souvant/AFP/Getty Images
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A wild rhesus macaque sits on the electricity cable in the Gandaria area of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Photograph: Monirul Alam/EPA
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Waste from the Durli Leathers tannery sits in a repository dug in an open field in Paraguari, Paraguay on the day the environment ministry stopped its operations.
Photograph: Jorge Saenz/AP
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A seal looks out of its transport basket at the eastern tip of the island of Juist, Germany. Three young seals were released into the wild by the seal breeding station in Norddeich.
Photograph: dpa/Alamy Live News
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Volunteers care for burned sheep at a field hospital for animals after a wildfire in the Manavgat district of Turkey. It is not known how many wild animals died in the fires, but about 33,000 farm animals perished.
Photograph: Erdem Sahin/EPA
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Stray cats eat food left out for them on a pavement in Izmir, Turkey.
Photograph: Uygar Ozel/ZUMA/Alamy Live News
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A mountain goat jumps over a fence on a farm in Walhachin, Canada.
Photograph: Canadian Press/REX/Shutterstock
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An orphaned bear cub crosses a mountain road affected by the Dixie fire in California, US.
Photograph: Eugene Garcia/AP
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A wasp rose cane gall on a leaf in Oxfordshire, UK.
Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/REX/Shutterstock
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A water vole sits next to a chalk stream that feeds into the Norfolk Broads. A conservation project in the area is intended to benefit Britain’s fastest-declining mammal and other wildlife.
Photograph: Steve Haywood/National Trust/PA
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A green-barred woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros) forages for insects on a guava tree in Asuncion, Paraguay.
Photograph: Andre M Chang/ZUMA/Alamy Live News
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Honeybees collect pollen from a sunflower in Markham, Canada.
Photograph: Creative Touch Imaging/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
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Charred trees left behind after a wildfire in the Chefchaouen region of Morocco.
Photograph: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images
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Wild horses gallop from a watering trough in Utah, US.
Photograph: Rick Bowmer/AP
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Cuttlefish are able to remember what, where and when specific events happened up to their last few days of life. Researchers suggest this is the first evidence of an animal whose memory of specific events does not deteriorate with age.
Photograph: Alex Schnell/University of Cambridge/PA
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Wild buffalo cool off at the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Gauhati, India.
Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP
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A serval in tall grass at the Maasai Mara national reserve in Kenya.
Photograph: Monicah Mwangi/Reuters
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A non-venomous diamond python protrudes from the spice shelf of a grocery shop in Sydney, Australia.
Photograph: Helaina Alati/AP
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Wally the Arctic walrus lounges in a speedboat at Crookhaven, County Cork, Ireland. He was first spotted on Valentia island in County Kerry in March, and has also been seen off Pembrokeshire in Wales, Cornwall in England and the coast of France.
Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
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Jones and Klaus, one of two same-sex male gentoo penguin couples who have partnered up for this year’s nesting season at Melbourne’s Sea Life aquarium in Australia.
Photograph: Sea Life Melbourne
