Vishal Jadhav / Exhausted Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) surrounded by House crow (Corvus splendens) group at dawn, one crow dives down to attack, Maharashtra, India, April.
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Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Two African crowned cranes (Balearica regulorum regulorum) looking around, then one ruffles its feathers, Lincoln Children's Zoo. Captive.
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Michael W. Richards / Little owl (Athene noctua) pair perched on beam inside barn, mutual preening before one adult flies away, Brompton Ralph, Somerset, UK, February.
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Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / A black phase critically endangered Indochinese leopard (Panthera pardus delacouri) snarling, Zoo Taiping, Malaysia. Captive.
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Eric Baccega / Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) female, Huan Huan, holding cub aged one month, Beauval ZooPark, France. 9 September 2021.
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Eric Baccega / Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) female, Huan Huan, holding cub aged one month, Beauval ZooPark, France. 9 September 2021.
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Eric Baccega / Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) female, Huan Huan, holding cub aged one month, Beauval ZooPark, France. 9 September 2021.
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Eric Baccega / Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) female, Huan Huan, holding cub aged one month, Beauval ZooPark, France. 9 September 2021.
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Nick Upton / White stork (Ciconia ciconia) with three chicks in nest at top of an Oak tree, gaping in hot sunshine with one exercising its wings, Knepp Estate, Sussex, UK, June.
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David Weiller / Two Squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) sitting in tree alert to surroundings, one scraching itself before climbing up branch to leave, Amazon rainforest, Leticia, Colombia.
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David Pattyn / Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) young playing with a feather next to one of the parents. Valkenhorst Nature Reserve, Valkenswaard, The Netherlands. May
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David Pattyn / Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) parent bird trying to rest with one of its young that keeps begging for food. Valkenhorst Nature Reserve, Valkenswaard, The Netherlands. June
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David Pattyn / Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) parent bird with one of its young that keeps begging for food. Valkenhorst Nature Reserve, Valkenswaard, The Netherlands. June
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David Pattyn / Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) parent bird feeding a feather to one of its young. Valkenhorst Nature Reserve, Valkenswaard, The Netherlands. June
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David Pattyn / Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) parent bird with chick on its back and one next to it in the water; portrait in the first morning light Valkenhorst Nature Reserve, Valkenswaard, The Netherlan...
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David Pattyn / Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) parent bird with young on its back and one chick on the water, portrait in the first morning light Valkenhorst Nature Reserve, Valkenswaard, The Netherlands. M...
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Marie Read / Black Skimmers (Rynchops niger) nesting, one adult feeds a fish to a small chick that emerges from underneath second adult, Long Island, New York USA, August.
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John Chan / Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) chicks sitting in nest, pestering parent for food before the parent feeds one of the chicks, California, USA, May.
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Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / One piglet from a large litter looks around her small crate as her mother lies immobile beside her. Sows are kept in gestation crates and then farrowing crates in industrial farms, which is the standa...
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John Chan / Elegant terns (Thalasseus elegans) gathering at mussel bed during breeding season, one hovering tern has a mussel clamped to its foot, a common mishap caused by stepping on an open mussel, Bolsa Chica...
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Neil Aldridge / Slow motion shot of two Grey long eared bat (Plecotus austriacus) flying, leaving roost in barn to go hunting, Devon, UK. The Grey long eared bat is one of the UK's rarest mammals.
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Rose Summers / Two Common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) chicks sitting in entrance of nest hole in tree trunk, one chick begins flapping its wings to strengthen them, Devon, England, UK, June.
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Tui De Roy / Olive Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), Oaxaca, Mexico
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Theo Allofs / Giant River Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) swimming, Pantanal, Brazil
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Theo Allofs / Jaguar (Panthera onca), Pantanal, Brazil
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Theo Allofs / Giant River Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) feeding on fish prey, Pantanal, Brazil
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Juergen & Christine Sohns / Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), native to northern hemisphere
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Chase Dekker / Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa), Sierra Nevada, California
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Chase Dekker / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching, Monterey Bay, California
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Chase Dekker / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching, Monterey Bay, California
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Chase Dekker / Brown Bear (Ursus arctos), Katmai National Park, Alaska
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Chase Dekker / Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) feeding on sedge grass, Katmai National Park, Alaska
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Luciano Candisani / Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus variegatus) in atlantic Rainforest, Brazil
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Benjamin Olson / Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) male foraging for salmon, Katmai National Park, Alaska
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Mark Raycroft / Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) male running, North America
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Mark Raycroft / Chocolate Labrador Retriever (Canis familiaris) puppy, North America
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Suzi Eszterhas / Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus variegatus) male hanging in vine, Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica
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Ch'ien Lee / Lesser Dawn Bat (Eonycteris spelaea) feeding on Durian Pulu (Durio kutejensis) flower nectar at night, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
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Ch'ien Lee / Australasian Giant Centipede (Ethmostigmus rubripes) recently molted juvenile, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
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Jami Tarris / Jaguar (Panthera onca) cub, Pantanal, Brazil
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Chase Dekker / Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) surfacing, California
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Chase Dekker / Orca (Orcinus orca) male surfacing, Monterey Bay, California
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Roland Seitre / Naked Mole Rat (Heterocephalus glaber), native to Africa
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Roland Seitre / Darling's Mole-rat (Cryptomys darlingi) incisors, native to Africa
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Roland Seitre / Darling's Mole-rat (Cryptomys darlingi), native to Africa
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Roland Seitre / Darling's Mole-rat (Cryptomys darlingi), native to Africa
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Roland Seitre / Angolan Giant Mole-rat (Cryptomys mechowi), native to Africa
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Roland Seitre / Angolan Giant Mole-rat (Cryptomys mechowi), native to Africa
