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Paw Paw, one of three baby wombats born with a white paw at the Australian Wildlife Centre, Healesville, Melbourne
Picture: REX FEATURES

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Sadie the colobus monkey looks after her first baby, named Darby, at Denver Zoo, Colorado
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George, a De Brazza monkey at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, who suffers from diabetes. George has to be injected daily by his keeper and has a special diet which includes aubergine, apples, pears and not-too-ripe bananas, which are all low in sugar

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A Barbary Ape (Macaca sylvanus) yawns in the Budapest Zoo, Hungary
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A wild monkey trapped in a forest in Cambodia
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...They quickly came across the Humba family group of eight gorillas which included a silverback, a pregnant female and a female with an infant, but a full survey of all the gorillas is likely to take a month

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A seal rests on a pallet floating near the Thames Flood Barrier
Picture: LONDON MEDIA

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A great white shark breaches near Seal Island in False Bay off South Africa's Western Cape
Picture: Thomas P Peschak/Save our Seas Foundation

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Two baby giant pandas which have been adopted by a pharmaceutical company in Xian Shannxi province in northwest China. They have been named Yangyang and Sensen
Picture: ALPHA

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Lemurs warm themselves in front of an electric heater at a zoo in Japan
Picture: AP

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Sam Leith, 12, looks at a miniature pony which stands not quite 15 inches high, the littlest ever born at Riverdance Miniature Horses at Ballan, near Melbourne
Picture: REX FEATURES

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Seven pomeranian dogs wear firefighter costumes during a fashion show at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise amusement park complex in Yokohama, Japan
Picture: AP

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An Amur tiger called Yuri walks in the snow in The Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie near Aviemore, Scotland
Picture: REUTERS

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Four-day-old Sundara, a female Asian elephant, plays in a yard at the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Centre for Elephant Conservation in Polk County, Florida
Picture: REUTERS

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A lava lizard sits on the head of a marine iguana, Puerto Egas, Galapagos
Picture: REX FEATURES