This week in wildlife - the best pictures of animals around the world

Take a look at some of the best images of wildlife from the past week

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  A monkey sits inside a cardboard box to protect itself from the heat in Chennai, India. AFP

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  Water buffaloes walk on the Peacock Island in Berlin, Germany. EPA

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  A seal bathes in a pond at Berlin's Zoologischer Garten Zoo. AFP

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  Volunteer Brittany Bugg holds the foot of a juvenile great horned owl at Great Basin Wildlife Rescue in Mapleton, Utah. AP

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  A spiny lobster (Palinurus elephas) at the Frioul islands in southern France. AFP

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  A big-eyed baby pygmy owl at the Phoenix Zoo. AP

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  European grey wolves in the semi-wildlife animal park of Les Angles, southwestern France. AFP

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  Sally Ride, a Bald Eagle, in her enclosure inside of the Houston Zoo's new Texas Wetlands exhibit in Houston, Texas. AP

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  A giant panda in an enclosure at the Moscow Zoo in Russia. Reuters

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  Seals inside an enclosure at the Moscow Zoo in Russia. Reuters

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  A giraffe eats inside an enclosure at the Moscow Zoo in Russia. Reuters

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  A pelican splashes water inside an enclosure at the Moscow Zoo in Russia. Reuters

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  A mandrill observes visitors in its enclosure in the Berlin Zoo, in Berlin, Germany. EPA

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  A king vulture closes his eye lids in its enclosure in the Berlin Zoo, in Berlin, Germany. EPA

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  Lion Bastet sits next to one of her cubs in their enclosure at the zoo in Erfurt, Germany. AFP

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  A tiger lays in a pool of water inside a cage at a zoo in Lahore, Pakistan. Reuters

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  Polar bear cub Hertha and her mother Tonja at their enclosure at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin. AFP

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