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Animal Tracks: May 19-25

A peacock shows off and 14 more of the week's best animal photos

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Peeping out

A sloth peeks out from behind a door on a floating house in the 'Lago do Janauari' near Manaus, Brazil, on May 20.

— Felipe Dana / AP
Image: Animals at Ueno Zoo

Group of friends

Baby black-tailed prairie dogs gather at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on May 23.

— Kiyoshi Ota / EPA
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Say cheese!

A black-and-white ruffed lemur looks at the camera at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, on May 23.

— Kiyoshi Ota / EPA
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This isn't Dumbo

Asian elephants look on at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on May 23.

— Kiyoshi Ota / EPA
Image: Sea Turtle Conservation Works To Save Endangered Turtle Species

First steps

Hatchlings are released at Red Island Beach during the World Turtle Day celebration in Banyuwangi, Indonesia, on May 23.

— Robertus Pudyanto / Getty Images AsiaPac
Image: A voter poses for a picture with a dog as they leave a pub being used as a polling station in Christmas Common, southern England

Polling pup

A voter poses for a picture with a dog as they leave a pub being used as a polling station in Christmas Common, England, on May 22.

— Eddie Keogh / X01801
Image: A Dwarf crocodile is reflected in a pond at Colombo's Zoological Gardens

Submerged

A Dwarf crocodile is reflected in a pond at Zoological Gardens in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on May 22.

— Dinuka Liyanawatte / X02763
Image: Prairie dog offsprings at Hanover zoo

Parent pal

A prairie dog parent and its offspring in their enclosure at the zoo in Hanover, Germany, on May 22

— Jochen Luebke / DPA
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Ribbit

A frog is pictured in Botanic Garden of the University of Greifswald in Greifswald, Germany, on May 21.

— Stefan Sauer / DPA
Image: A young male Sumatran tiger sits in a new $19.5million tiger habitat at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park in San Diego's San Pasqual Valley

The eye of the tiger

A young male Sumatran tiger sits at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park in San Diego on May 21.

— Mike Blake / X00030
Image: Horses are seen in silhouette making their way to the track for morning workouts at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York

Sunrise walk

Horses are seen in silhouette making their way to the track for morning workouts at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., on May 21.

— Shannon Stapleton / X90052
Image: Orphaned Orangutans Are Released Back Into The Wild

Hanging out

A Bornean orangutan lies in a hammock at Surabaya Zoo as he prepares to be released into the wild in Surabaya, Indonesia, on May 19.

— Robertus Pudyanto / Getty Images AsiaPac
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Showing off

A white peacock opens its plumage at the Nogeyama zoo in Yokohama, Japan, on May 25.

— Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP
Image: A visitor looks at a polar bear in the newly opened polar bear world in the zoo of Vienna

Down deep

A visitor looks at a polar bear in the newly-opened polar bear world called "Franz Josefs Land" in the Schoenbrunn zoo of Vienna, on May 23.

— Leonhard Foeger / X00360
Image: Animals at Ueno Zoo

Fancy flamingos

Greater flamingos gather at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on May 23.

— Kiyoshi Ota / EPA
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