Cute small animal picture of the day

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A gull catches a pearl mullet at Lake Van in Turkey…

 

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A bumblebee flies over a poppy in a field on the outskirts of the city of Frankfurt…

 

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Cool it!

 

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Starlings cool off in a bird bath in Whitley Bay as temperatures remain high across the UK…

 

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A Toque Macaque (Macaca sinica) monkey eats discarded sweetcorn in Sri Lanka…

 

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There were two of these in our garden this afternoon

 

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Crested guinea fowl in South Africa’s Kruger National Park…

 

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The same pair of peacock butterflies were in our garden today, and our cat was showing some unhealthy interest in one of them.

I can report that the butterfly survived.

 

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A sleeping red fox vixen covered in dandelion seeds…

 

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Blackpool Zoo has welcomed its first Bornean orangutan baby in more than two decades. The species is critically endangered…

 

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Two geese with goslings at a lake in the Göle district, Ardahan, Turkey…

 

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Banded demoiselle damselflies, both male, spotted in Colchester…

 

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A guillemot chick, watched by its father, leaps into the water from one of the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast…

 

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A ladybird on a leaf after a rain shower…

 

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Ai Bao, a giant panda, holds one of her babies after giving birth to twins at Everland amusement park in Yongin, South Korea…

 

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Langurs groom each other in Dharamshala, India…

 

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This female large red damselfly was photographed on Cumnor Hill in Oxfordshire…

 

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I found a massive dragonfly on our path once. Fascinated me so I stuck it in the fridge to preserve it and freaked everybody out.

 

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A dragonfly sits on a lotus flower…