A pangolin crawls on bags wrapping other pangolins during a news conference on wildlife rescue in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai customs officers rescued 138 endangered pangolins worth about $46,000 that they say were to be sold and eaten outside the country. The animals hidden in a pickup truck were seized at a custom check point in Chumporn province, south of Bangkok, according to the officials

Photograph: Apichart Weerawong/AP

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Europe’s last wild horses are driven into an arena to pick out young stallions in Duelmen, Germany. It is believed that this is the last herd of wild horses on the European continent in this 350 hectare reservation in western Germany, where more than 300 of the indigenous horses stay free and wild without any care under the protection of the Duke of Croy. Only once a year the new-born stallions are caught and sold, all mares stay with the herd and guarantee the survive of the endangered species

Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP

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A black and white ruffled lemur, an endangered species of lemur, in a nature reserve in Andasibe, Madagascar. The disappearance of adjoining habitat outside the area is the main threat to the critically endangered lemurs

Photograph: He Xianfeng/Corbis

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Big Five: Cape buffalo at a waterhole – Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Africa’s Big 5 and Little 5 wildlife safari photo gallery

Big Five: Black rhino female and 18-month-old juvenile – Tswalu Kalahari Range, South Africa

Africa’s Big 5 and Little 5 wildlife safari photo gallery

Big Five: Male lion resting in long grass – Masai Mara, Kenya

Africa’s Big 5 and Little 5 wildlife safari photo gallery

Little Five: Bushveld elephant shrew – Kalahari Gemsbok, South Africa

Africa’s Big 5 and Little 5 wildlife safari photo gallery

Big Five: Red-billed oxpecker perched on the nose of an African buffalo – Kruger National Park, South Africa

Africa’s Big 5 and Little 5 wildlife safari photo gallery

Big Five: portrait of lioness with male behind – Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Africa’s Big 5 and Little 5 wildlife safari photo gallery

Big Five: Low angle portrait of an adult leopard – Okavango Delta, Botswana

Africa’s Big 5 and Little 5 wildlife safari photo gallery

Big Five: African elephant with double rainbow in background – Masai Mara, Kenya

Africa’s Big 5 and Little 5 wildlife safari photo gallery

 A baby possum called Jerry.

Picture: Natasha Brooke

 Laura Lannon writes: This was taken by my fiancé Craig D’allen in South Devon using a rudimentary camera trap (tupperware pot and a camera remote control) after weeks of acclimatising the badgers to his presence.

Picture: Craig D’allen

Lions cool down in the hot weather at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling, ScotlandPicture: Andrew Milligan/PA

A giraffe enjoys an ice lolly at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park. Keepers at the attraction in Kent kept their animals cool with ice treats and cool water baths as the temperatures soared in the south of England.Picture: www.aspinallfoundation.org