Animal Tracks is a buzz in this week's best animal photos
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Image: A Monarch butterfly caterpillar is pictured on a plant in North Miami Beach
A Monarch butterfly caterpillar is pictured on a plant in North Miami Beach, Florida, March 19th.
— CARLO ALLEGRI / Reuters
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A Sri Lankan zoological garden employee prays before starting a blessing ritual to bless animals by anointing oil to mark the Sinhalese and Tamil traditional New Year in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, April 16th. The ritual of anointing oil is performed on both people and animals as a part of New Year celebrations.
— Eranga Jayawardena / AP
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A Sri Lankan zoological garden employee reaches to apply oil on a giraffe as a blessing ritual to mark the Sinhalese and Tamil traditional New Year in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, April 16. The ritual of anointing oil is performed on both people and animals as a part of New Year celebrations.
— Eranga Jayawardena / AP
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This picture taken in Leuser National park, South Aceh on April 16th shows villagers riding on an elephant while an Indonesian mahout takes part in a patrol along Leuser Ecosystem corridor close to palm oil plantations in South Aceh. Elephants have joined the front line in the fight against poaching and illegal logging in the dense jungles of Sumatra. Guided by their Indonesian mahouts, they trek alongside rivers, over rough terrain and deep into the rainforest in an area that is home to numerous endangered species, from orangutans to tigers, but which has suffered devastating deforestation in recent years.
— CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP - Getty Images
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A bee heads for a blossom to collect some pollen on April 12th in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany.
— FRANK RUMPENHORST / AFP - Getty Images
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Image: The world second-oldest gorilla "Fatou" eats from a fruit birthday basket at the Berlin zoo
The world second-oldest gorilla "Fatou" eats from a fruit birthday basket at the Berlin zoo, Germany, April 13th.
— HANNIBAL HANSCHKE / Reuters
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White young boar "Bruno" stands among his brothers and sisters in an enclosure of the Schloss Ortenburg wildlife park in Ortenburg, southern Germany, on April 13th. Bruno is the only white young boar in the litter of six born a week ago.
— ARMIN WEIGEL / AFP - Getty Images
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Image: A goat feeds a tapir calf, that was abandoned by its mother, at the National Zoo in Managua, Nicaragua
A goat feeds a tapir calf, that was abandoned by its mother, at the National Zoo in Managua, Nicaragua April 14th.