Panda party and more in this week's best animal pictures

Le Bao the panda plays with his ice cake during a birthday event for a pair of giant pandas at South Korea's Everland Amusement and Animal Park in Yongin on July 10th.

Two newly discovered mountain lion kittens, one of two separate litters found in the eastern Santa Susana Mountains near Los Angeles, California, U.S., are shown in their den.

A duckling explores the shore of the Wannsee lake in Berlin on July 6th.

A giraffe stretches to reach fresh leaves on July 9th at the zoo in Berlin.

Giraffes browse at the Ol-Pejeta conservancy in Laikipia county, approximately 200 kilometres north of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi on July 8th.

An elephant holds some leaves in his trunk on July 6th the Tierpark Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, Germany.