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

Two bull elephants are seen at Ol Donyo lodge in the foothills of the Chyulu Hills, bordering the Chyulu Hills National Park in the east of the Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya. Tusk via AP Images

A tiger looks straight into a remote camera installed in a forest in western Thailand. Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation / EPA

Cheetah mother Afra looks at her four little cubs at their enclosure at the zoo in Vienna, Austria. AP Photo

An earth bumblebee sits on the blossom of a snowberry and collects nectar for the winter supply with its long sucking trunk at the end of the summer dress in Berlin, Germany. dpa via AP

Chipmunks run along a rock ledge at the Horseshoe Park overlook in Rocky Mountain National Park in Grand Lake, Colorado, USA. AP Photo

Icelandic horses stand in their paddock at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany. AP Photo

A gorilla holds baby in Bwindi National Park Uganda. Uganda Wildlife Authority / AP Photo

A Brown spider monkey baby is seen with its mother in the zoo park of Santa Fe in Medellin, Colombia. EPA

A lion is seen at Bioparque Wakata in Jaime Duque park, in Briceno municipality near Bogota, Colombia. AFP

Pelicans approach a person on a bench in St James's Park in London, Britain. PA via AP

Charolais cattle grazes on a dry meadow at a livestock farm in Nouan, northwestern France. AFP

A little auk takes flight from its hillside rocky habitat during a summer heat wave on Svalbard archipelago near Longyearbyen, Norway. Getty Images

Tigers are seen at Bioparque Wakata in Jaime Duque park, in Briceno municipality near Bogota, Colombia. AFP

A hare sits on a harvested field next to straw bales near Herrnleis, in Austria. EPA

A pair of pileated woodpeckers team up in pursuit of insects on a dead pine tree in Freeport, Maine, USA. AP Photo

Keyah, a hoest monkey, cuddles her newly born cub, in her enclosure at the Mulhouse zoo, in Mulhouse, eastern France. AFP

Cattle egrets fly in Le Grand-Luce, northwestern France. AFP

Rhino calves feed at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation at Bokakhat, Assam, India. AP Photo

An egret bird at a lake in Al Maadea district of Behera Governorate, Egypt. EPA

A record 876 flamingo chicks are hatched at Abu Dhabi’s Al Wathba Wetland Reserve in Abu Dhabi, UAE, this season. Victor Besa /The National

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Animal traffickers passing off lion parts as tiger, says UN