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Weekly animals gallery

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A Scottish bottlenose dolphin chases a wild salmon as they migrate along the coast back to their rivers to spawn at Chanonry Point, Scotland. ZUMAPRESS.com
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A woman sells a painted dog in the street in Shangqiu, Henan Province of China. ZUMAPRESS.com
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A new species of monkey found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and identified as Lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) is seen in this undated photograph. The monkey was first seen in 2007 by researchers John and Terese Hart of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale Research Project. The finding of C. lomamiensis represents only the second new species of African monkey to be discovered in the past 28 years, according to the research article. Reuters
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A juvenile tiger roars in a caged compound on the roof top of an apartment building in Pathum Thani province, central Thailand. A Thai man has been arrested and accused of illegally raising six tigers on top of the apartment building on Bangkok’s outskirts after police busted a larger tiger-trafficking ring in the country. AP Photo
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Baby Tapir Nando stays close to his mother Peggy at the zoo in Jaderberg, Germany. Barcroft Media
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An eel is seen at the Teti wreck near the Island of Vis, off the coast of Croatia. Barcroft Media
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A man wrestles with a wild leopard who attacked several people in Duliajan, India Manash Pratim Gogoi/Demotix
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A baby silvery gibbon holds on to its mother Pangrango at the Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, Germany. ZUMAPRESS.com
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A young snow leopard explore its enclosure at the zoo in Cologne, Germany. EPA
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A six-day-old hippopotamus is pictured next to his mother, Kara at “Planet sauvage” (wild planet) zoo in Port-Saint-Pere, western France. AFP/Getty Images
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A wild monkey attacks an innocent dog before getting bored and walk away. The monkey starts a fight out-of-the-blue after spotting a stray dog outside a Cambodian temple. ZUMAPRESS.com
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Zeus drinks from the kitchen faucet in Otsego, Mich. The Great Dane is now officially the world’s tallest canine according to the r Guinness World Records 2013 Book. The 3-year-old measures 44 inches from foot to shoulder. Standing on his hind legs, Zeus measures 7-foot-4. AP Photo