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 farmer splashes water on his water buffalo during the traditional parade before the annual Chonburi Buffalo Race in Chonburi, Thailand. AFP

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  A gull flies under a bridge on the Sava river in Belgrade, Serbia. AP Photo

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  A stork stands on a traffic sign pointing to a nature reserve in Bechingen, Germany. Thomas Warnack/dpa via AP

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  One of three Northern Bottlenose whales swims near Garelochhead, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

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  Birds rest on electric power pillars near Veles, North Macedonia. Reuters

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  A newborn pangolin is fed by a staff member at Taipei Zoo. AFP

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  A mother panda cleans her 36-day-old cub at Taipei Zoo. AFP

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  Birds fly over the medieval Charles Bridge as the sun rises in Prague, Czech Republic. Reuters

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  Reflected in a window, a wild macaw eats peanuts on the edge of a balcony, in Caracas, Venezuela. AP Photo

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  Vultures stand near the carcass of a cayman on the banks of the Cuiaba River at the Encontro das Aguas state park in the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. AP Photo

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  A lizard sits between grapes in the steep Calmond vineyard over the Mosel river in Bremm, Germany. AP Photo

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  Veterinarians work on the paws of a Jaguar named Ousado, who suffered second degree burns during the fires in the Pantanal region, at the headquarters of Nex Felinos, an NGO aimed at defending endangered wild cats, in the city of Corumba, Goias state, Brazil. AP Photo

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  A 2-month-old Rhino calf named Atanasio runs in his enclosure during a tour of the Buin Zoo in Santiago, Chile. AP Photo

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  A Harris hawk sits on Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square in London. EPA

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  An environmental agent try to help recovering one of the eight pilot whales stranded at El Tranqueru beach in Asturias, Northern Spain. EPA

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  A newborn Southern Pudu baby with his mother in the enclosure at the Zoo in Cologne. EPA

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  A flock of sheep goes down the road on Col du Glandon, near Saint Colomban Des Villards, a mountain pass in the Dauphine Alps in Savoy, France. AFP

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