Animal photographs of the year 2014
From beavers to birds and a baby rhino, the Guardian picture desk has selected its pick of the year’s animals photographs
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Newborn giant panda triplets are seen inside an incubator at the Chimelong safari park in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China
Photograph: Reuters
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A northern cardinal sits on a tree branch in falling snow in the New York City suburb of Nyack
Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters
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A family of wild beavers on the Rosenheim near Munich, Germany
Photograph: Kutschenreiter/Arco/Solent
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Red-crowned cranes take a rest in Tsurui, Japan
Photograph: Xinhua /Landov / Barcroft Media
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A lion yawns at the zoo in Berlin, Germany
Photograph: Maurizio Gambarini/dpa/Corbis
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A male red deer with antlers covered in bracken, walks through undergrowth in Richmond Park, London
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
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Masked puffer seen underwater in Red Sea, Egypt
Photograph: Andrey Nekrasov/Barcroft Media
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Stranded cattle in the flooded region of Ballivian province, Bolivia
Photograph: David Mercado/Reuters
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A Bryde’s whale and seagulls feast on anchovies in the Gulf of Thailand
Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
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A western lowland gorilla named Mbeli holds her baby in their enclosure at Sydney’s Taronga zoo
Photograph: David Gray/Reuters
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A polar bear traverses the ice in Canada
Photograph: Justin Hofman/Barcroft Media
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A three-month-old macaque bites its toe in front of a fan heater at a wildlife park in Kunming, Yunnan province, China
Photograph: Wong Campion/Reuters
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A swallow feeds her babies in their nest under the ceiling of a residential house in Dongfeng township, China
Photograph: Reuters
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An orphaned baby rhino in Lewa wildlife conservancy, Ngare Ndare Forest, Kenya.
Photograph: Luca Ghidoni/Barcroft Media
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A fox walks in a forest in the Nalibokskaya Pushcha reserve, west of Minsk, Belarus
Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
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Japanese macaques (or snow monkeys) groom each other in a hot spring at a snow-covered valley in Yamanouchi town, Japan
Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters
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An eagle owl fluffs out its feathers as it sits on one foot on a branch in its enclosure at the Grugapark, Germany
Photograph: Ina Fassbender/Reuters
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One of the first seal pups of the season to have been born at the site of one of England’s biggest colonies, Blakeney Point
Photograph: Justin Minns/The National Trust/PA
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A flock of starlings fly over an agricultural field near Netivot, Israel
Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters
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