Week in wildlife in pictures: a drowsy seal, wild kittens and the reddest bird
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
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Serval kittens crouch in the undergrowth in Kenya. Servals are wildcats that live in African grasslands; like their domestic cousins, they enjoy grooming themselves, purring, stalking small animals and yowling
Photograph: Paul Goldstein/SWNS
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A mule deer buck limps its way up a mountainside with apparent burns in the wake of the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, US
Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images
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A male northern cardinal puffs up his feathers against the cold at Colonel Samuel Smith Park on the shore of Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
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An Annam wart frog in Virachey national park, in Cambodia’s remote north-east. Surveys of the park have revealed endangered species never before recorded in the country …
Photograph: Fauna and Flora/AFP/Getty Images
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… such as this giant muntjac deer, caught on a camera trap in Virachey park, where it had never been recorded before
Photograph: Fauna and Flora/AFP/Getty Images
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A Jezebel butterfly rests on a leaf in the garden of a home in Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Photograph: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images
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A drone image shows orcas attacking a great white shark in Mossel Bay, South Africa. When carcasses of sharks began washing up on the western Cape, marine biologists were baffled – until they realised that killer whales with a taste for liver were the culprits
Photograph: Drone fanatics SA
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Wild goats search for food in snow-covered terrain at the Munzur Valley National Park in Tunceli, Turkey
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
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Black-faced spoonbills at a mangrove wetland park in Danzhou City, Hainan, China. Of the six species of spoonbill, it is the only one considered to be endangered
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
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Sandhill cranes at the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in Decatur, Alabama, US
Photograph: George Walker IV/AP
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Splitting hares … a crow finds itself under scrutiny from two European hares on an icy field in Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP
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A squirrel, well insulated against the cold, at Colonel Samuel Smith Park in Toronto, Canada
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
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Thirsty black-faced ibis drink from a swimming pool in the coastal town of Tongoy, Chile
Photograph: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy Live News.
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A bee checks out a sunflower in Turen, western Venezuela
Photograph: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images
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A yellow-eyed penguin, also known as hoiho, walks towards its nest in Sandfly Bay near Dunedin, New Zealand
Photograph: Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
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A heron takes off at Westhay Nature Reserve in Glastonbury, UK
Photograph: Harry Trump/Getty Images
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A fur seal yawns at Shag Point in coastal Otago, New Zealand
Photograph: Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
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A bald eagle strikes a majestic pose at Union Bay in Seattle, Washington, US
Photograph: Lindsey Wasson/AP
