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A pair of lion cubs look like they are embracing for a cuddle. These pictures show cubs play fighting and learning important life skills. This pair of brothers were captured in Singita Sabi Sand near the Kruger Park in South Africa.

📸 - Erin Long

#lioncubs #siblings #fighting #family #wildlife
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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A tiny mouse stretches to reach out for conkers. Photos show a small wood mouse stretching out its body to reach some conkers hanging above it in a back garden in Padiham, Lancashire.

📸 - Cliff Ferguson

#mouse #conkers #wildlife #uk #branch #animals #autum
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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PLAYTIME IN THE PRIDE! A pair of lion cubs play fight with one another in a conservancy. The big cats were pictured at sunrise in Ol Kinyei, Kenya.

📸 - Paul Meek

#lioncubs #playfight #siblings #fighting #playtime #wildlife #animals #kenya
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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A trio of lion cubs roll around while play-fighting with each other in the Ol Kinyei Conservancy in the Maasai Mara, Kenya.

📸 - Paul Meek

#lions #lioncubs #playful #cheeky #wildlife #maasaimara #animals #funny #cute #cubs #rollingaround
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Inquisitive mice climb on fungi and moss. The pair of mice can be seen jumping on the toadstools and playing on the moss in a garden in Burnley, Lancashire. Woodmice eat fungi as part of a varied diet with seeds, fruit, nuts, insects and worms.

📸 - Clifford Ferguson

#mice #animals #fungi #mouse
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Looking to the skies. This gannet is seen giving a look as it pulls funny faces. The portraits were taken in front of dark rocks on the Island of Noss, Shetland, Scotland.

📸 - John Moncrieff

#gannets #faces #look #portrait #birds #wildlife #scotland #seabirds #shetland #uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Squirrels look like they have superhero capes as they fly between trees in a snowy forest. The Siberian flying squirrels were witnessed gliding between trees in Hokkaido, Japan.

📸 - Hiroki Takahashi

#flyingsquirrels #squirrels #japan #wildlife #animals #cute
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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A magpie finds the perfect perch atop a red deer stag’s head at the height of the annual rut. As autumn takes hold, parks across the UK echo with the roars of stags battling for supremacy and the attention of nearby females in Bushy Park, London.

📸 - Cristi Vasile

#deer #rut #autumn #weather #uk
October 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Boozed-up monkeys fight over a beer can. A band of monkeys hang from the branch of a tree and play fight over a gold beer can they have found at Sukhna Lake, at the foothills of the Himalayas, India.

📸 - Anuj Jain

#monkeys #beercan #beer #india #wildlife #animals #drunk
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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TAILS FROM THE SAVANNAH! A young lion cub shows he's a great hunter - as he pins down his mother's tail. The playful interaction of the cub turning the tail into a chew toy was captured at sunset in Olare Motorogi Conservancy, Kenya.

📸 - Samson So

#lion #cub #tail #play #wild #animals #kenya
October 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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No more pictures, please... A young orangutan plays in the grass at Blackpool Zoo. Two-year-old Jarang is shielding his eyes from the sun while playing outside with his mother Jingga and Auntie Cherie.

📸 - Alison Allen

#blackpoolzoo #orangutan #hide #shy #animal #funny #zoo #funnyanimals #hiding
October 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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A tiger cub plays with its mother in the mud. The baby tugs at its mother's tail – a naughty move that the predator wouldn’t let many get away with. It can also be seen jumping at its mother's face in Rajasthan’s Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in northern India.

📸 - Rithika Jain

#play #cub #tiger
October 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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A harvest mouse appears to shy away from the camera. The small rodent covers its face with its feet while standing on a rose tree. The images show a pair of 12-month-old mice enjoying exploring and improving their climbing skills in Wimborne, Dorset.

📸 - Alan Benson

#mice #shy #wildlife #animals
October 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Red squirrels explore toadstools. The inquisitive rodents play with the red and white toadstools, creating a scene similar to a 'fairytale'. Taken in a backgarden in Bispgården, Sweden.

📸 - Geert Weggen

#redsquirrels #squirrels #mushrooms #autmn #autumnal #weather #animals #widlife
October 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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A ladybird crawls across a green spiralled vine. The insect scurries over the tendril of a passion flower in Ash, Surrey.

📸 - Jon Hawkins

#macrophotography #wildlife #insects #animals #daisies #flowers #waterdrops #droplets #refraction #water #beautiful
October 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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OPEN WIDE... An orangutan appears to have a sore throat. The primate is seen grasping at its throat and pulling a face in Cisarua, West Java.

📸 - Prabu Dennaga

#orangutan #throat #shock #grab #animals #wildlife #westjava #funny #grasping #funnyanimal #faces
October 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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HEADPHONE HOPPER! A frog appears to be wearing a pair of golden headphones as two snails climb onto its head. The dump tree frog was spotted with a pair of banana snails as accessories in Green Garden, West Jakarta, Indonesia.

📸 - Dzul Dzulfriki

#snail #frog #headphones #wildlife #indonesia
October 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Battling egrets look like dancing ballerinas in the air. The birds showed their 'grace and aggression,' while using their huge wingspan and sharp beaks to fight each other mid-air in the wetlands of Orissa, India.

📸 - Avijit Ghorai

#egrets #birds #battle #fight #territory #india #wildlife #animal
October 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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A sailfish spears its prey. The fish, which is the fastest in the ocean, used its point to swiftly capture a sardine. Martin Strmiska took these pictures in Isla Mujeres, which is an island located just off the coast of Cancún, Mexico.

📸 - Martin Strmiska

#sailfish #baitball #ocean #mexico #wild
October 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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A brown bear splashes around while fishing in a river. The bear reaches into the water and catches sockeye salmon in Kamchatka, Russia.

📸 - Alex Perov

#fish #fishing #salmon #bears #brownbears #spawning #river #splashing #catching #food #wildlife
September 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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These portraits of animals give rare up-close-and-personal glimpses of the creatures. Some of the photos show a snake buried in the sand from Namibia, a 'condescending' toucan from the Pantanal in Brazil, a yellow snake from Costa Rica from Madagascar.

📸 - Dale Morris

#portrait #wildlife #animals
September 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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The Best Dog-Friendly Pub in Britain has been revealed as The Foresters Arms in Hampshire's New Forest. The country pub, in the village of Frogham, was crowned the best after experts tested 110 across the country for pet care marketplace Rover.com

📸 - Solent Staff Photographer Simon Czapp
September 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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An assortment of sea animals swim gracefully on the surface of the water. The pictures of these whales, swans, crocodile, turtle, and starfish reef, showing half the shot above the surface and half below in Tonga, Cuba, Papua New Guinea, and Scotland.

📸 - Grant Thomas

#animals #halfandhalf #sea
September 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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A flock of albatrosses scrap for scraps. The majestic birds fight over food from the back of a boat above the Otago submarine canyons, New Zealand.

📸 - Oskar Ehrhardt

#birds #albatrossess #seabirds #sea #scraps #foodfight #boat #newzealand
September 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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FEELING THE SQUEEZE... A frog appears to be leaping into the beak of a bird. The little blue heron, having caught the frog, was tossing it into the air to position it for swallowing in a local park in Delaware, USA.

📸 - Andrew Hearne

#bird #frog #blueheron #caught #animal #wildlife #delaware #usa
September 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM