Cute small animal picture of the day

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Deer are transferred away from flooded farmland on the outskirts of Sydney…

 

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A green frog sits on a moth orchid at a South Korean agricultural research centre two days before Gyeongchip, the day when frogs awaken from hibernation…

 

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A comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) in the Carpathian mountains…

 

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A peacock fans its tail at the Wilpattu national park in Sri Lanka…

 

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A worker at the Libassa wildlife sanctuary gives water to a pangolin who was rescued from a hunter on the outskirts of Monrovia in Liberia…

 

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Two rescued monkeys have also just arrived at the Libassa wildlife sanctuary in Monrovia…

 

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Sea birds fly at La Lluvia beach, while workers continue an oil clean-up campaign in the Ventanilla district of Callao, Peru…

 

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A marine iguana, also known as a sea iguana, on Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador. The marine iguana is the only lizard in the world with the ability to live at sea and is endemic to the Galapagos Islands…

 

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A conservation officer holds a leopard cub after police arrested a group of wildlife traffickers in Surabaya, Indonesia…

 

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Polar bear twins Kaja and Skadi, born in November, appear in front of visitors to Rostock zoo in Germany for the first time…

 

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An oriental psyche (Leptosia nina), a small butterfly of the family Pieridae found in the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia and Australia. Their power of flight is weak so they fly low over the grass and rarely leave the ground level…

 

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A fiddler crab forages for food on Singapore’s Pulau Hantu island…

 

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A black leopard photographed with a camera trap in Laikipia, Kenya…

 

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Starlings fight to claim territory for mating and raising their brood…

 

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A stork brings nesting material to its nest in the Hessian Ried in Biebesheim, Germany. A large population of these imposing migratory birds has been living in Biebesheim for years…

 

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A bird resting on the branch of a blossoming cherry tree in Fuzhou, China…

 

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Volunteers from the local community release baby turtles, known as ‘tukik’ locally, into the sea on Lampuuk beach, Aceh Besar, Indonesia. The baby turtles were released into the sea as part of conservationists’ efforts to boost the population of an endangered species and promote environmental protection among local people who often hunt the eggs to consume and to sell…

 

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An owl is seen in Diyarbakır, Turkey. The little owl, whose left wing was crushed, is being treated at the Dicle Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center and will be released after its treatment…

 

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A green frog sits on a moth orchid at a South Korean agricultural research centre two days before Gyeongchip, the day when frogs awaken from hibernation…

It's a great photo, but it's not in a moth orchid, it's in a primula! 🙂

 

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It's a great photo, but it's not in a moth orchid, it's in a primula! 🙂

Agreed. Well spotted!

I've just discovered this amendment in the Guardian: "A green frog sits on primroses at an agricultural research centre two days before Gyeongchip, the day when frogs awaken from hibernation. • 'This caption was amended on 4 March 2022. An earlier version misdescribed the plant as a moth orchid'."