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 Keel-billed toucan is seen at the National Centre of Conservation and Recuperation of Species of the Zoo Rosy Walter in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. EPA

One of two bengal tiger cubs, who were rejected by their mother, is pictured at La Pastora Zoo in the municipality of Guadalupe, Mexico. Reuters

In this photo, a grasshopper rests on a wall outside California Pizza Kitchen in downtown Summerlin in Las Vegas. AP

A newborn baby Sumatran elephant cosies up to her mother to feed at the Conservation Response Unit Alue Kuyun in Meulaboh, Aceh province. AFP

Hertha the polar bear plays with her ball at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin. AFP

A pelican splashes about in a pond at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin. AFP

A wild fox confronts a cat in Bialobrzegi forest near Warsaw, Poland. AP

A baby monkey is cuddled by its mother to keep warm on the top of a pine tree after heavy rainfall in Pahalgam, southeast of Srinagar. AFP

A deer stands in a grain field in the Oderbruch region in Lebus, northeastern Germany. AFP

Storks on their nest silhouette against the sky as sun rises over the Oderbruch region in Lebus, northeastern Germany. AFP

A young Malaysian bear peeps from behind a tree at Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, The Netherlands. EPA

"Spartacus", a sixty-year-old land tortoise devours hard bread soaked in fresh milk, in a garden dried by drought, in Illiers-Combray, center France. AFP

A bee collects nectar from a cosmos flower at a garden in Jammu, Kashmir, India. EPA

Mara, an African elephant, stands at the Performing Animals Welfare Society's ARK 2000 Sanctuary near San Andreas, Calif. AP

A frog hangs on the side of a piece of wood in the country near Commerce, Texas, USA. EPA

A Humboldt penguin keeps cool, at the Vincennes zoo in Paris. AP

A stork flies over a street in Ruesselsheim, western Germany. AFP

A raccoon cub (Procyon lotor) rests on a blanket during its presentation in the Zoo of Debrecen in Debrecen, Hungary. EPA

This photo provided by the San Diego Zoo shows a day-old southern white rhino calf standing on its wobbly legs at the Nikita Kahn Rhino Rescue Center at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, Calif. AP

This underwater picture, shows a jelly fish near a spearfishing practitioner off the coasts of the coastal city of Qalamun, north of Beirut. AFP

Nineteen-month old female panda cub Yi Yi (L) plays with her mother Liang Liang (R) during her naming ceremony at Malaysia’s National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. REUTERS

Detail of an amphibian kaiser salamander in a fish tank, one of the many that grew up recently, mainly of the Mexican axolote species and kaiser salamanders, in the Aquarium Poema del Mar (lit. Poem of the Sea) of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in Canary Islands, Spain. EPA

Detail of an amphibian axolote in a fish tank, one of the many that grew up recently, mainly of the Mexican axolote species and kaiser salamanders, in the Aquarium Poema del Mar (lit. Poem of the Sea) of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in Canary Islands, Spain. EPA

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