Cute small animal picture of the day

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Splash!

 

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A rose chafer beetle (Cetonia aurata) feeds itself in a poppy.

 

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Baby lesser crested terns on Kubbar Island, Kuwait.

 

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I do have a soft spot for puffins, so ungainly on land.

 

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A marbled polecat, found exhausted…

 

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A female chinspot bird feeding its chicks in a nest…

 

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A lemur eats fruit during hot weather at Tarsus nature park. Animals are fed icy fruit cocktails of apples, oranges, kiwis, strawberries, bananas and grapes, and refreshed with pressurised water and a special sprinkler system to cool them…

 

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A hungry bird bit off a bit more than it could chew as it struggled to swallow its fishy prey. This great cormorant was hunting on a lake in Kiskuns¡g National Park in Hungary when it caught a brown bullhead catfish in its beak…

 

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A rare white puffin has been spotted on Handa Island Wildlife Reserve off the coast of Sutherland…

 

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A fledgling Barred Owl…

 

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A young peregrine falcon battles his mother to steal her recent prey…

 

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These super ants have been captured hauling fruit three times their weight back to the nest…

 

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A frog was left looking like Princess Leia from Star Wars after two garden snails climbed on top of its head…

 

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A child feeds a hedgehog that was adopted after its mother died…

 

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A volunteer frees a Kestrel after being found in difficult conditions…

 

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One of the new flamingo chicks sits among the older flamingos at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. The eggs spent a month in an incubator to ensure their survival…

 

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A fish owl peers through a gap in its own wings…

 

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A bee probes a purple coneflower for nectar in a garden…

 

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Not a particularly small animal, but a particularly beautiful one 😱 🙂 Akhal-teke, breed from Kazakhstan 🙂

 

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A rufous hummingbird perches on a barbed wire fence along a pasture…