The week in wildlife – in pictures
Hungry bears, muddy hippos and glorious autumnal scenes feature in this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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A male red deer, with antlers covered in bracken, barks in London’s Richmond Park. Over 600 red and fallow deer roam in the largest of London’s Royal Parks, and have their numbers managed in an annual cull each November and February.
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
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Autumn scenery at Haweswater in the Lake District, Cumbria, England.
Photograph: Rex Features
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A white swan flies over the Main-Danube canal in Bamberg, Germany.
Photograph: David Ebener/EPA
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A man and a woman walk in a wood, in Höngg near Zurich in Switzerland.
Photograph: Ennio Leanza/EPA
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A capped gibbon, one of the most endangered primate species in India, sits in a tree at the Hoollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary in Jorhat district in the eastern state of Assam.
Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images
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Banded demoiselle insects covered in morning dew, Hertfordshire, Britain. The bugs are unable to fly while covered in dew, so perch on plants and grass stems waiting for the rising sun to dry their wings before they take off.
Photograph: Andy Sands/NPL/Rex Features
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Demonstrators show the message “Let Live” on the palms of their hands as they take part in the “Global March for Elephants and Rhinos” to raise awareness for their plight, in Nairobi, Kenya. The march, took place in over 100 cities around the world.
Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP
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A young beaver explores an old beaver lodge near Ellensburg, Washington, US. Its family was moved as part of a program to trap nuisance beavers and relocate them to the headwaters of the Yakima River where biologists hope their dams will help restore water systems used by salmon and people.
Photograph: Manuel Valdes/AP
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Mediterranean moray (Muraena helena) in black coral (Stichopathes sp) field in seamounts in the north of Canary Islands, Spain.
Photograph: Oceana
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A sparrow sits in a tank barrel at the Soviet War Memorial at Strasse des 17 Juni in Berlin, Germany.
Photograph: Paul Zinken/EPA
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A black bear tears apart a car interior while trying to escape the vehicle after foraging for food inside, in Castle Pines, Colorado, US. Bears are drawn to the area for berries that are plentiful after a wet year - but human food left outside is a quicker way to get the 20,000 calories a day they need.
Photograph: Douglas County Sheriff's Office/AP
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A police raid on the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Phnom Penh, Cambodia uncovered a cache of illegal wildlife parts and live animals. The haul included 19 clouded leopard skins, leopard claws, 10 otter skins, two tiger skins and animal bones and horns, the Cambodia Daily reported.
Photograph: STRINGER/EPA
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Birds occupy a dilapidated pier on the Little Blackwater River in Church Creek, Maryland, US. Several islands and properties located at sea level in the lower Chesapeake Bay region are slowly eroding away as sea levels rise.
Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images
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A sifaka from the family of lemurs clings to a tree in Madagascar.
Photograph: Heinrich Van Den Berg/Barcroft Media
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A herd of hippopotamus sleep on the bank of Mara river in Masai Mara National Reserve.
Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
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A mountain lion keeps watch while her cubs feed at a bait site in the Santa Ana Mountains in California. The lions are under growing pressure from a shrinking gene pool, fragmented by highways and urban sprawl.
Photograph: UC Davis/Reuters
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Fallen sweet chestnuts lie in a puddle in Richmond Park, London.
Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA
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