Cute small animal picture of the day

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A cunning kittiwake gull swooped in and attempted to steal a dozen sand eels from a puffin. After trying to flee, the puffin dropped the eels which fell back into the sea at the Isle of May…

 

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A lemur checks the rushes on media day at Tarsus nature park…

 

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A lemur hijacks a camera in Tarsus nature park…

 

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Three Amur tiger cubs explore their outside enclosure for the first time at Highland Wildlife Park near Kingussie…

 

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These are the first baby beavers born at a rewilding site on Bodmin Moor. The first for hundreds of years…

 

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A northern pool frog is released into ancient pingos at Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s Thompson Common, as they are reintroduced into the wild after becoming extinct in England at the end of the 20th century…

 

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Two small kestrel chicks that were found nesting in an A320 aircraft at the Bro Tathan West aerodrome in the Vale of Glamorgan…

 

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[Paulbreen]

Frodo enjoying the evening sun

 

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A golden snub-nosed monkey, one of China's first-class protected species…

 

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A Monk seal, considered among the world’s most threatened species…

 

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A turtle swims amongst the algae that has infested the lake at Sefton Park, in Liverpool…

 

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I wanna get in there with a rake or something.

 

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I wanna get in there with a rake or something.

Yes, it's bad, and many of our rivers are suffering increased algal blooms.

 

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A painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) on the black knight buddleia (Scrophulariaceae) flowers in Berkshire…

 

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Rain droplets have been captured on this dandelion clock seed to create a striking image…

 

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I would like a print of that on my wall. 🙂

 

[Gwynn]

Me too. Fabulous picture.

 

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Two months old twin Sumatran tigers (Panthera Tigris Sumatrae) are seen at the Indonesian Safari Park…

 

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Giant panda Huan Huan, which means "Happy" in Chinese, has given birth to twins at the Beauval Zoo…

Huan Huan with one of her twin cubs…