• Reindeer in a corral at Lappeasuando near Kiruna, Sweden, await to be released onto the winter pastures. AP Photo
    Reindeer in a corral at Lappeasuando near Kiruna, Sweden, await to be released onto the winter pastures. AP Photo
  • Great white pelicans eat fish in Tel Aviv. AFP
    Great white pelicans eat fish in Tel Aviv. AFP
  • Great white pelicans eat fish provided by Israeli farmers at a water reservoir in the Emek Hefer valley north of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. An estimated 50,000 pelicans stop off in Israel during their annual migration from the Balkans to Africa, where they enjoy a mild winter before returning to Europe. They rest and feed for weeks, causing chaos for fish farmers, whose outdoor commercial pools and reservoirs provide rich pickings. Farmers have tried to deter them with loudspeakers, laser beams and by firing blank rounds from rifles. In their desperation, they have come up with another way: offering the birds a free lunch. AFP
    Great white pelicans eat fish provided by Israeli farmers at a water reservoir in the Emek Hefer valley north of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. An estimated 50,000 pelicans stop off in Israel during their annual migration from the Balkans to Africa, where they enjoy a mild winter before returning to Europe. They rest and feed for weeks, causing chaos for fish farmers, whose outdoor commercial pools and reservoirs provide rich pickings. Farmers have tried to deter them with loudspeakers, laser beams and by firing blank rounds from rifles. In their desperation, they have come up with another way: offering the birds a free lunch. AFP
  • In this undated photo provided by the Kansas City Zoo, three Macaroni penguin chicks are cared for just days after their birth at the zoo. AP
    In this undated photo provided by the Kansas City Zoo, three Macaroni penguin chicks are cared for just days after their birth at the zoo. AP
  • San Diego Zoo shows a 19-day old white rhino that has been named Future for what the baby represents to rhino conservation worldwide, at San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, Calif. The calf is bonding with her mother and frolicking in the maternity yard left wet by recent storms. "Future's new favorite thing is mud," zookeeper Marco Zeno said in a statement. "She sees a puddle and she wants to roll in it!" The female southern white rhino was born Nov. 21 to to an 11-year-old mother named Amani. AP
    San Diego Zoo shows a 19-day old white rhino that has been named Future for what the baby represents to rhino conservation worldwide, at San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, Calif. The calf is bonding with her mother and frolicking in the maternity yard left wet by recent storms. "Future's new favorite thing is mud," zookeeper Marco Zeno said in a statement. "She sees a puddle and she wants to roll in it!" The female southern white rhino was born Nov. 21 to to an 11-year-old mother named Amani. AP
  • A rattlesnake is seen before extracting venom from it at the Butantan Institue -which supplies the Ministry of Health, with many snakes' venom for its ditribution countrywide- in Sao Paulo, Brazil. AFP
    A rattlesnake is seen before extracting venom from it at the Butantan Institue -which supplies the Ministry of Health, with many snakes' venom for its ditribution countrywide- in Sao Paulo, Brazil. AFP
  • Photo provided by the United States Geological Survey shows a grizzly bear and a cub along the Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. AP
    Photo provided by the United States Geological Survey shows a grizzly bear and a cub along the Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. AP
  • Meng Xian, one of the two recently born twin panda cubs, is held by a zoo keeper during their official presentation at the Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany. EPA
    Meng Xian, one of the two recently born twin panda cubs, is held by a zoo keeper during their official presentation at the Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany. EPA
  • Starlings sit on the backs of fallow dee in Moenchbruch near Frankfurt, Germany. AP
    Starlings sit on the backs of fallow dee in Moenchbruch near Frankfurt, Germany. AP
  • Common buzzards are seen at Pacsmag Lakes Nature Reserve, near Tamasi, Hungary. EPA
    Common buzzards are seen at Pacsmag Lakes Nature Reserve, near Tamasi, Hungary. EPA

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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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December 12, 2019

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