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 Purple Swamphen also known as the Purple coot catches a frog on the marshy wetland in the suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka. EPA

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  A polar bear cub walks with its mother Nora during its first public appearance at the Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna. AFP

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  A polar bear cub walks with its mother Nora during its first public appearance at the Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna. AFP

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  An African penguin holds a heart shaped Valentine card at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. AP Photo

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  An aerial view of a group of waterbucks running through the Thuru Lodge Game reserve near Groblershoop in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. AFP

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  Female Western Lowland Gorilla, N'djia, and her newborn baby rest in their enclosure at the zoo in Los Angeles. Jamie Pham / The Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens via AP

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  A red fox jumps on the edge of a forest near Pomaz, Hungary. EPA

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  A seven month old baby Koala is seen on it's mother's back at the Lisbon Zoo. EPA

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  A Sri Lankan elephant baths ahead of the annual Buddhist parade in Colombo. AFP

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  Sunbears are rehabilitated in the Sunbear Sanctuary at the Samboja Lodge eco-tourism resort, operated by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, in East Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. Bloomberg

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  White storks are seen in Jordan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Reuters

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