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

Female northern white rhinos Fatu, 19, left, and Najin, 30, right, the last two northern white rhinos on the planet, graze in their enclosure at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya. AP

A meerkat mother and pup at the Lisbon Zoo, Portugal. EPA

A healthy Florida panther is seen at the Palm Beach Zoo in Palm Beach, Florida. AFP

Giant panda Bei Bei walks towards his frozen 4th birthday cake at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC. AFP

A picture shows a dragonfly near the Houille, an affluent of the Meuse river, near Hargnies. AFP

A picture shows a fly and a spider at Tancarville, northwestern France. AFP

A bee collects pollen from an echinacea coneflower in Dresden, eastern Germany. AFP

A picture taken with a drone shows wallowing buffalos coolling themselves in a pond on the Hungarian steppe of Hortobagy, Hungary. EPA

Wallowing buffalos cool themselves in a pond on the Hungarian steppe of Hortobagy, Hungary. EPA

An insect collects nectar from a blossom in Kirchheim unter Teck, southern Germany. AFP

A Southern Vietnamese box turtle walks in its pen at a turtle sanctuary in Cuc Phuong national park in Ninh Binh province, Vietnam. AP

Birds are pictured as the sun rises amid smoke from a burning tract of Amazon jungle as it is cleared by loggers and farmers near Porto Velho, Brazil. Reuters

Storks at a field during their migration to the south, in Penthalaz, Switzerland. EPA

A rabbit sits on a buckwheat field during twilight near Herrnleis, some 50 kilometers northern Austrian capital Vienna, Austria. EPA

A monarch butterfly is buzzed by a bumblebee as it sips nectar on a Joe Pye weed in Freeport, Maine. AP

Baby elephants rub their trunks against a tree at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. AP

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