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 humpback whale swims in the water by Montreal, Canada. AFP

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  A newborn bonobo baby clings to its mother in the enclosure at the Zoo in Cologne, Germany. EPA

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  Four young swallows shout for food while sitting on the nest of a house terrace in Nicosia, Cyprus. EPA

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  A retired circus elephant is released to its newly created enclosure surroundings in Knuthenborg Safari Park, in Bandholm, Denmark. EPA

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  Spectacled penguins catch a fish at the Zoom 'Erlebniswelt' Zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. EPA

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  A newborn baby camel is nozzled by its mother Iringo, 13, in their enclosure in the Budapest Zoo in Budapest, Hungary. EPA

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  A young rhesus macaque feeds on wild Himalayan Rhea fruits in Dharmsala, India. AP Photo

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  A group of Whitetail Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is seen at the zoo in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico. AFP

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  The little polar bear Nana eats a watermelon at the zoo in Hannover, Germany. dpa via AP

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  A bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is seen at the zoo in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico. AFP

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  A white heron flies over the Sava river on a sunny day in Belgrade, Serbia. AP Photo

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  Polish primitive horses (or the Polish Konik) on a paddock at the Nature Reserve Swietlista Dabrowa, west-central Poland. EPA

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  A squirrel holds tight on a leaf as it spends time looking for something to eat in a tree in Frankfurt, Germany. EPA

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  Five-week-old yellow-bearded lemur twins cling onto their mother in their enclosure in Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary. EPA

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  A Patas monkey is pictured at the Riga National Zoological Garden (Riga Zoo), Latvia. EPA

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  A mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) looks next to her ducklings at the White Lake (Weisser See) during a sunny Pentecost Sunday afternoon in Berlin, Germany. EPA

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  A three-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus insignis) climbs up a tree branch in Kathmandu, Nepal. EPA

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  A house sparrow flies in an early morning in Kathmandu, Nepal. EPA

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  One of three rescued loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) heads back into the water at the Es Trenc-Salobrar de Campos Natural Park in the south of the island of Mallorca, Spain. EPA

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  A swan (Cygnus olor) family swims on the White Lake (Weisser See) during a sunny Pentecost Sunday afternoon in Berlin, Germany. EPA

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  Young Baribal or American black bears are pictured at the Thoiry Zoo and Safari Park, in Thoiry, west of Paris, France. AFP

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  A donkey scratches his back on the grass in Pamplona, Spain. EPA

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  Chapman's zebras are pictured at the Riga National Zoological Garden (Riga Zoo), Latvia. EPA

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  Gorilla enjoys some food in the sun at Twycross Zoo in Leicester, Britain, UK. EPA

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