The week in wildlife – in pictures
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A black swan looks over her four cygnets as they swim in Melbourne’s Albert Park lake
Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty
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Tatyana Abramova, 33, plays with her fox, Plombir, at her house outside the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Soviet experiments to domesticate foxes began in 1959, with the aim of understanding the behaviour of animals and to explain how the fox’s ancestor, the wolf, evolved into the domesticated dog
Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty
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Asian hornets at their nest in Chisseaux, near Tours, France
Photograph: Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty
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A silver pheasant at the Exiandong nature reserve in Nanjing, south-east China
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
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Salmon move up the Humber river near the Old Mill subway station in Etobicoke, Canada, during breeding season
Photograph: Anatoliy Cherkasov/NurPhoto/Getty
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A female Atlantic grey seal with her pup at a remote breeding ground in Pembrokeshire. The National Trust is warning of the dangers of ocean waste after the seal was spotted with fishing debris caught around its neck
Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
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A kestrel sits on an electric wire holding its prey at Mount Agri national park in Igdir, Turkey
Photograph: Huseyin Yildiz/Anadolu/Getty
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A red squirrel forages for food among autumn leaves in the Widdale red squirrel reserve in North Yorkshire
Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA
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Migrating whooper swans at the RSPB’s Loch Leven nature reserve. Thousands of whooper swans migrate to the UK each autumn from their breeding grounds in Iceland
Photograph: Ken Jack/Getty Images
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A golden monkey at Dalongtan golden monkey research centre in Shennongjia national park, China
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
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Flamingos at a reservoir in Atlit, north of Tel Aviv, where they stop en route to Africa during their winter migration
Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty
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A wasp collects late pollen on a cold, damp day in Dunsden, Oxfordshire
Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex/Shutterstock
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Cranes coming in to land near Linum, Brandenburg, Germany
Photograph: Simone Kuhlmey/Rex/Shutterstock
