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 newborn zebra takes its first steps outside on the Savannah in ARTIS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Grevy zebra is the most endangered of all zebra species. EPA

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  Giraffes look as a newborn zebra takes its first steps outside on the Savannah in ARTIS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. EPA

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  A handout photo made available by Colombian National Parks that shows loggerhead sea turtles hatch at the Tayrona National Park, in Santa Marta, Colombia. EPA

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  A butterfly sits on a plant in an enclosure at the Wilhelma zoological-botanical garden, in Stuttgart, Germany. EPA

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  Flying foxes hang in their enclosure at the Wilhelma zoological-botanical garden, in Stuttgart, Germany. EPA

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  A Grey Wolf is seen in the wild at the Lower Rhine wolf region of Schermbeck, Germany. EPA

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  Bendeguz, a one-year-old male red panda climbs a tree in their enclosure at the Budapest Zoo. EPA

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  A group of dams is in the Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen, Germany at a visitors' vehicle, from which two young girls look at the animals and stroke one of them. AP

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  Newborn Asian lion cubs next to their mother in their enclosure at the Bioparco zoo in Rome, Italy. EPA

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  A handout photo made available by Taipei Zoo shows the panda cub born at Taipei Zoo on 28 June in Taipei. EPA

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  A lemur jumps in the air with a piece of carrot in his mouth at the zoological park "Planete Sauvage" at Saint-Pere-en-Retz, on the outskirts of Nantes. AFP

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