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Weekly animals gallery

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Villagers watch as two bulls fight during a folk sports meeting in Majiang County, Guizhou Province, China.

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A mantis climbs under a rusty wire encircling a small plum tree growing in an orchard on a farm near Roseburg.

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A polar bear eats an ice cake to avoid a sustained hot weather in Dalian Forest Zoo of Dalian City, northeast China's Liaoning Province.

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Tigers rest in the water to cool down as a heat wave hit the Dalian Forest Zoo of Dalian City, northeast China's Liaoning Province.

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An elephant washes itself in the Dalian Forest Zoo of Dalian City, northeast China's Liaoning Province.

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Neil the polar bear snacks on lettuce at the Como Zoo in St. Paul, MN.

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A red deer is seen near Strobl, west of Vienna, Austria.

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Two Giraffes look in opposite directions as they stand together in their enclosure at Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna, Austria.

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A monarch butterfly, the state butterfly of Vermont, perches on a tree branch in Montpelier, Vt. Millions of monarch butterflies are expected to migrate south in less than a month in their seasonal trip from Canada to Mexico.

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A Bengal tiger plays in a pool to beat the heat at Chongqing Wild Animal Zoo in Chongqing, China.

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A Bali mynah chick, one of three that were hatched in July, are seen in their habitat at the Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. Bali mynahs are among the world's rarest birds and only 115 exist in the wild.

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Shannon Ostermayer, (L) and Madi Shaw, of Grantville, Pa., wash minature horse "Sara Jule" prior to a demonstration at a Penn State University College of Agricultural Sciences exhibit in Rock Springs, PA.

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An elephant newborn is fed by its mother "Pang Pha" during a presentation to the public at the Berlin Zoo. The female baby elephant will be named "Anchali."

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A whale shark swims in waters of Utila Island, in the Honduran Caribbean. This small island is visited by over 6,500 people each year, mainly for scuba diving at low costs in its clear waters and stunning coral reef.

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A sand kitten sits at her enclosure at the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv. Four sand kittens, considered extinct in Israel, were born 3 weeks ago at the safari park, an open-air zoo.

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A Kashmiri villager stands next to his swans at a field in Bandipora, north of Srinagar, India.

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A horse, a boxer dog and a podenco dog (Andalusian hound) (L-R) are silhouetted in Marinaleda, southern Spain.

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A bee gathers pollen on a sunflower at a home in Bristol, VA.

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A dog named "Negrito" wears a straw hat and balances a mouse on its back in Old Havana, Cuba. The owner of animals, Miguel Diaz, brings his two pets to Old Havana when he's not working to show them off to tourists and earn some extra money.

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An undated handout photograph released by Joji Otaki, an associate professor of biology at the University of the Ryukyus, shows a healthy adult pale grass blue (Zizeeria maha) butterfly (top) and a mutated variety (bottom). Severe mutations were found in butterflies collected near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant according to Japanese news. Exposure to radioactive material from the nuclear accident has caused the mutations, according to the team of scientists conducting the survey published in the journal Scientific Reports.