It’s time once more for a look at the animal kingdom and our interactions with the countless species that share our planet. Today’s photos include a new Penguin Conservation Center in Detroit, cattle herded from floods in Texas, an escaped chimp in Japan, grazing cows in the Golan Heights, kangaroos on an Australian beach, a deer with its head trapped in a light globe, a drone-attacking eagle, and much more. These images and many others are part of this roundup of animals in the news from recent months, seen from the perspectives of their human observers, companions, captors, and caretakers, as part of an ongoing series on animals in the news.
Animals in the News
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A fish swims trapped inside a transparent jellyfish in this image captured by the photographer Tim Samuel in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Byron Bay on Australia's east coast, taken December 8, 2015, and provided to Reuters June 11, 2016. #
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A deer with its head caught in a globe from a lighting fixture stands in the woods in Centereach, New York, on May 3, 2016. The deer was able to extricate itself with the help of Environmental Conservation Officer, Jeff Hull. Hull wrestled with the deer for a while and the globe shook free in the process. #
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Summer Sharif looks at an Owl butterfly feeding on an orange during a photo call for hundreds of tropical butterflies being released, to launch the Natural History Museum's Sensational Butterflies exhibition in London, on March 23, 2016. #
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A stray cat walks on used life vests lying on a makeshift rubbish dump hidden in the hills above the town on March 10, 2016, in Mithymna, Greece. Local authorities had started to clean the beaches of life vests and destroyed dinghies used by refugees and migrants crossing the sea from Turkey to Lesbos. #
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A man, acting as a terrorist, is attacked by a dog from the canine unit of a Brazilian military police battalion, during an instructional exercise with officers of an elite unit of the French police, ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics, on Rio de Janeiro's subway on June 10, 2016. #
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A picture taken at the Vergenoegd Wine Estate on June 3, 2016, near Stellenbosch, South Africa, shows a trained duck-herd of approximately 1,000 Indian Runner ducks on their way to the vineyards. The ducks eat snails and other pests which threaten the grapevines, allowing the farm to avoid using toxic pesticides, and they also fertilize the ground with their droppings. The ducks sleep in an enclosed pen, and are herded out to the vineyards in the day, then for a swim in the dam, and then back to their pen in the late afternoon. #
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Marie Segretier, age 18, helps to wrangle young bulls and brand them on May 26, 2016, in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer near Arles, France. Traditional horsemen, known as ‘Gardians’, celebrate the day in memory of the Marquis de Baroncelli and show tourists how they work. Marie works with horses and is the only cowgirl in the Staintes-Maries-de-la-Me area. #
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Patrick Pendville, owner of Animatrans, poses with a stuffed dog at a taxidermist's workshop in Aalst, Belgium, on April 29, 2016. Pets get a high-class send-off at Animatrans, a funeral home that claims to be the first in Belgium to cater exclusively to pets. #
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A humpback whale breaches near Gold Coast, Australia, on on June 9, 2016. Whale sightings along Australia's east coast are common during the months of May to November, as the animals travel north to warmer waters to breed. #
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A Kenya Wildlife Services ranger stands guard in front illegal stockpiles of burning elephant tusks at the Nairobi National Park on April 30, 2016. Eleven giant pyres of tusks were set alight Saturday as Kenya torched its vast ivory stockpile in a grand gesture aimed at shocking the world into stopping the slaughter of elephants. Lighting the fire in Nairobi's national park, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta demanded a total ban on trade in ivory to end the “murderous” trafficking and prevent the extinction of elephants in the wild. #
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A crate carrying one of the 33 lions rescued from circuses in Peru and Columbia is lifted onto the back of a lorry before being transported to a private reserve on April 30, 2016, in Johannesburg, South Africa. A total of 33 former circus lions, 22 males, and 11 females from Peru and Columbia have been airlifted to South Africa to live out their lives on a private reserve in the Limpopo Province. Twenty four of the animals were rescued in raids on circuses operating in Peru. The rest were voluntarily surrendered by a circus in Colombia after Colombia’s Congress passed a bill prohibiting circuses from using wild animals. #
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Huts that form part of the Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort can be seen where a turtle digs for food among the coral in the island's lagoon, at Lady Elliot Island located north-east from the town of Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia, on June 9, 2015. #
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Male chimpanzee Chacha screams after escaping from nearby Yagiyama Zoological Park as a man tries to capture him on the power lines at a residential area in Sendai, northern Japan, on April 14, 2016. The chimp was eventually caught after being shot with a tranquilizer gun and falling from the power lines. #
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A polar bear cub snuggles up against her mother Valeska, in their enclosure at Bremerhaven's Zoo by the Sea, Germany, on March 9, 2016. The female cub was born on December 11 of last year. #
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Children ride camels during Temeenii bayar, or Camel Festival, in Dalanzadgad, Umnugobi aimag, Mongolia, on March 6, 2016. On the steppes of the Gobi Desert, the crowd urges on Bactrian camels laden down with all that's needed to build and live in a traditional Mongolian tent. Guinness World Records classes the 15-kilometer race that’s part of the two-day festival as the largest camel race in the world, drawing 1,108 participants. The winning camel romped home in 35 minutes and 12 seconds, according to the records website. #
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Cattle are herded through floodwaters toward higher ground, Saturday, June 4, 2016, near Chenango, Texas. Parts of Texas had been inundated with rain, with more than half of the state under flood watches or warnings. #
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Shinda, a western lowland gorilla, holds her five-day-old baby in its enclosure at Prague Zoo on April 27, 2016 in Prague, Czech Republic. According to the zoo, the birth was unexpected and zoo workers didn't know that 24-year-old Shida was pregnant. #
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A penguin swims in the Detroit Zoo's new Polk Penguin Conservation Center on April 13, 2016, in Royal Oak, Michigan. The new penguin habitat that the zoo calls the world’s largest such facility offers its 80+ residents new rocks for climbing, waves, snow, and better ice conditions, while allowing visitors to come nose-to-beak with the stately birds. #
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Bird staff member Holly Cale spends time with Moccas, a one-year old Andean condor at the ICBP (International Center for Birds of Prey) on May 16, 2016, in Newent, England. Sharing such close contact with condors is rare due to their size and power they are able to generate with their beaks. Mocca has been with Holly almost every day since hatching at the center and the bond between the pair is one of trust. The ICBP is the oldest dedicated birds of prey center in the world. Around 75 different species of birds of prey are looked after at the facilities in the Gloucestershire countryside, including hawks, eagles, owls, and falcons from across the world. #
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