14 Stunning New Wildlife Pictures That Will Leave You Wowed
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Deer stand between tombstones at Vienna's central cemetery ahead of All Saints Day in Austria.
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Critically endangered tamaraws graze inside the Iglit-Baco protected habitat in Mansalay, Mindoro province, the Philippines. The tamaraw is hard to find in the wild, but conservationists say they have recently recorded a slight increase in their numbers, as protection of their habitat pays off.
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A Bengal tiger in Banke national park, Nepal. Thousands of camera traps have helped conservationists track Nepal's wild tiger population, which has nearly doubled in recent years as the big cats claw their way back from the verge of extinction.
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Two pairs of spinner dolphins mating in the Red Sea, Egypt.
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Two of a pride of lionesses at the Nairobi national park in Kenya.
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The Natural History Museum has contributed to the discovery of a new species of papilionidae butterfly, officially named Papilio natewa, on the Pacific Island of Vanua Levu, Fiji. The discovery is all the more remarkable as there are only two swallowtail butterfly species previously known from this part of the Pacific; Papilio schmeltzi, endemic to Fiji and Papilio godeffroyi, endemic to Samoa.
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Endangered Pickersgill's reed frogs are now restricted to just 25 small wetland patches on the east coast of South Africa. Conservationists are monitoring 200 captive-bred frogs that were released along South Africa's coastline in the KwaZulu-Natal province.
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Vets check a baby siamang, or black-furred gibbon, rescued from a villager, at the local nature conservation agency's office in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
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A crab catches a newborn green turtle recently released from a protected area on Thameehla Island, Myanmar. If the crabs don't get them before they reach the sea, poachers or fishing trawlers may do - while habitat destruction also decimates their numbers.
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A kangaroo hops across the road outside the town of Booligal in New South Wales, Australia. The country's exotic wild animals are struggling to adapt to a crippling drought – from abandoned baby kangaroos to wallabies being blinded by the sun and koalas having to go walkabout to look for eucalyptus leaves.
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Venezuelan red siskin perch on branches in Vargas. Some 40 farmers in Venezuela's coastal mountains of Carayaca have stopped cutting down trees in an important first step to creating a robust habitat for the threatened bird to thrive and repopulate.
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An oystercatcher tries to feed a plastic balloon string to its chick, mistaking it as food, Bradley Beach, New Jersey, US.
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A murmuration of starlings, Ludes, France.
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Whooper swans, which migrate each winter from their breeding grounds in Iceland, fly over the RSPB Loch Leven nature reserve, in Kinross, Scotland.
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