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

A pied wagtail lands onto the green during day three of The Open Championship 2019 at Royal Portrush Golf Club. PA

A newborn Persian leopard in its enclosure in the Cologne Zoo, in Cologne, Germany. EPA

Axhi, a grizzly bear at Brookfield Zoo, licks a 300-pound block of ice as zoo officials work to keep the animals cool, hydrated and fed. AP

A frog is pictured in the drought Landes pond as the Creuse region experience extreme and exceptional drought conditions near Lussat, Creuse region, central France. AFP

Asiatic wild buffalos stand in floodwaters in Pobitora wildlife sanctuary, east of Gauhati, India. AP

A Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) at the National Zoological Garden in Colombo, Sri Lanka. EPA

A Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) with her offspring at the National Zoological Garden in Colombo, Sri Lanka. EPA

Spot-billed Pelicans (Pelecanus philippensis) cool off in an artificial lake at the National Zoological Garden in Colombo, Sri lanka. EPA

An Orang Utan (Pongo pygmaeus) observes the humans visiting the National Zoological Garden in Colombo, Sri Lanka. EPA

A Galapagos tortoise cools off in a shower of water from a zookeeper at the Oklahoma City Zoo. AP

An ostrich cools off in a shower of water at the Oklahoma City Zoo Oklahoma City. AP

Rabits sit in the grass in a yard in the country near Commerce, Texas, USA. EPA

In this photo, monkeys eat rotis, or flat bread, distributed by Saraswati Dangol in the forest near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. AP

Baby elephant Ben Long cools off in his pool at the zoo in Leipzig, eastern Germany, where temperatures reached 35 degrees Celsius. AFP

Polar bear Nanook takes a bath during an extreme hot summer at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. AP

Tiger "Dasha" cools off in her pool at the zoo in Duisburg, western Germany. AFP

One of the three brown bear cubs of Syria Newton, Jaiko and Laika, and the mother Martine, eat ice-covered fruits in their enclosure during a hot summer day at the zoo of Servion, in Servion, Switzerland. EPA

This picture shows a Formosan Pangolin at the Taipei zoo. AFP

This picture shows a group of Chapman's zebras at the Taipei zoo. AFP

This picture taken shows a Malayan sun bear standing on a rock at the Taipei zoo. AFP

The otters in Amersfoort Animal Park lick a refreshing frozen meal because of the persistent heat in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. EPA

Siberian Tigers take a bath to cool down in Dassow, Germany. AP

Birds fly over a pond in the Dombes region in Villars-les-Dombes, central eastern France, in the French department of Ain. AFP

A red velvet mite walks on a pepper plant flower in a greenhouse in Dalias, near El Ejido. AFP

This picture taken shows a "Nesidiocoris tenuis", a predator of the whitefly sucking instect, at Bioline Agro sciences Company in El Ejido. AFP

This photo shows a Yellowjacket on the ceiling of a hobby greenhouse near Langley, Wash. Yellowjackets typically live in underground burrows although some species build paper nests elsewhere, as shown here. AP

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