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Bull African elephants drinking at a water hole in the Nxai Pan National Park, Botswana
Picture: Paul Souders / Barcroft Media
Two baby opossums play on a branch, Minnesota, USA
Picture: Ronald Wittek/Arco Images/Solent News
Bonobos wading in water in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Photograph: Russell A Mittermeier/Conservation International
(Source: Guardian)
Moor frogs (Rana arvalis) temporarily turning blue at the Ljubljana Marshes, Slovenia. It is thought that males turn blue during the mating season so they can quickly distinguish males from females among the dense frog populations
Photograph: Luka Esenko/Rex Features
(Source: Guardian)
An Ocellaris clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) nestled in a sea anemone in the waters of Pasir Putih Beach in Probolinggo, Indonesia
Photograph: Robertus Pudyanto/Barcroft Media
(Source: Guardian)
A butterfly sits on a flower in Obergünzburg, Germany. The coldest start to spring for half a century has led to many butterflies emerging weeks later than usual, said a Butterfly Conservation report
Photograph: Karl-josef Hildenbrand/AFP/Getty Images
(Source: Guardian)
A coot with her chicks in Regent’s Park, London
Photograph: Bimal Gautam/Barcroft Media
Thousands of Arctic birds (guillemots) congregate on a stepped cliff face on Franz Josef Land, Russia
Picture: BARCROFT MEDIA
A baby orangutan clings to her mother as they swung through the treetops in Indonesia
Picture: SOLENT
A silhouette of short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) in flight at dusk, Worlaby Carrs, Lincolnshire. This image is part of a new outdoor street-gallery exhibition that has been launched on the South Bank of the River Thames in London, documenting the best of the 2020VISION wildlife project
Picture: REX FEATURES
Spot the baby. A baby red-bellied lemur sleeps on the the back of its mother Gizmo at Edinburgh Zoo
Picture: PA
Wild Boar Piglets are photographed at Whipsnade Zoo
Picture: Paul Grover
Puffins return to their summer breeding grounds on the Farne Islands, off the coast of Northumberland, UK. Wildlife rangers have embarked on an epic census discover whether puffin numbers have plummeted after a year of extreme weather
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Puffins return to their summer breeding grounds on the Farne Islands as National Trust rangers carry out a puffin census, Seahouses, UK
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
(Source: Guardian)
Elephants crossing the Ewaso Nyiro River in Samburu game reserve in Kenya. Chinese actress and UNEP goodwill ambassador Li Bingbing has joined the campaign to raise awareness of how demand in China is fueling the killing of elephants in Africa
Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images
