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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The National

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[ Arabian Gulf green turtle movement mapped for the first time ]

Large herd of dugongs filmed swimming in Abu Dhabi marine reserve

Updated: June 13, 2019, 1:26 PM