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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  Two polar bear cubs rest in their enclosure at Aaborg Zoo in Denmark. AFP

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  A bird looks at an Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Unicornis) eating grass in the zoo of the French western city of La Fleche. AFP

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  A European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) flies on a branch in Lambsheim, Germany. EPA

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  Young giraffes (Giraffa Camelopardalis) are pictured in the zoo of the French western city of La Fleche. AFP

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  A panda bear relaxes in its enclosure at the Copenhagen Zoo. AFP

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  An elephant wanders in bushes near a wildlife preservation site in Minneriya, Sri Lanka. AFP

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  A white stork (Ciconia ciconia) flies around at the bird park in Linkenheim, near Karlsruhe, Germany. EPA

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  A Sumatran tiger looks out from its enclosure at Zoo Miami in Miami. AP Photo

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  A young manatee with her mother swim in a pool in the Zoo in Wroclaw, Poland. EPA

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  The newborn chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) is seen with its mother in their rocky enclosure at Szeged Zoo in Szeged, Hungary. EPA

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  A wild white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) holds a caterpillar and grubs in its beak to feed its newly-hatched chicks at the entrance of their nest inside a tree trunk next to the Changgyeonggung Palace in Seoul, South Korea. EPA

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  A grizzly bear roams an exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. AP Photo

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  Mallard chicks (Anas platyrhynchos) swim with their mother at Lake Bekas in Debrecen, Hungary. EPA

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  One of the recently born common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) triplet clings to their father's back in the Miskolc Zoo and Culture Park, in Miskolc Hungary. EPA

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  A red-whiskered Bulbul feeds corn to her newly hatched chick in New Delhi, India. AP Photo

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  A wombat is seen at Lex and June Frew's wildlife sanctuary property Yaminon in Bendalong on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. EPA

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  A European bison in Muczne, southeastern Poland. EPA

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  Long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) swim in Mediterranean sea on a sunny day in Begur, Catalonia, Spain. EPA

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