Cute small animal picture of the day

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Red-billed gulls attend to their chick in a gull colony near Dunedin, New Zealand…

 

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A Javan slow loris after being released into the wild at Mount Halimun Salak National Park, Indonesia…

 

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Asiatic lions in the night safari exhibition at the Singapore zoo. A fifth lion at Singapore zoo has tested positive for Covid-19, the Animal and Veterinary Service has said…

 

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Carnaby’s black-cockatoos (Zanda latirostris) wheeling across the city skyline is a familiar sight as they migrate to the Swan Coastal Plain from early summer near Perth, Australia…

 

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In November, the spectacular buff-breasted paradise-kingfisher migrates from New Guinea to its breeding grounds in the wet tropics of north Queensland where they nest in termite mounds or rotting logs. Despite their brilliant plumage, they are shy and surprisingly difficult to spot…

 

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One of the lion triplets born in October at the zoo near Gelsenkirchen, Germany, works up an appetite…

 

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A seal pup is included in the annual census of pup numbers at one of England’s largest grey seal colonies. The Farne Islands, off the Northumberland coast, are an important haven for thousands of seabirds and hundreds of adult seals, and are looked after by the National Trust…

 

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A black-naped tern looks for food in Manila’s bay…

 

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A baby otter looks startled after being dragged by the neck while being taught to swim…

 

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A golden silk monkey landing in a painful position…

 

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An elaborate dance or a game of trust…

 

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A lemur takes an interest in the camera at Qingdao Forest Wildlife World in China…

 

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A girl feeds seagulls that have migrated from Siberia and Mongolia to escape the harsh winter…

 

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A girl handles a ball python at a pet expo in Bangkok…

 

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Pigeons on a fence in front of a frozen Sefton Park lake in Liverpool…

 

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An Oxpecker is captured perching on the nose of a buffalo as it drinks…

 

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Two male golden pheasants continuously swapped places on this tree trunk…

 

[Gwynn]

Wow, Confused, that is an incredible shot. In fact many of the images here are superb. A very interesting thread this.

 

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Wow, Confused, that is an incredible shot. In fact many of the images here are superb. A very interesting thread this.

Yes, there are some real beauties. Many of them have appeared in the Guardian newspaper website, at Best photographs of the day.

 

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Meerkats put on a pose…