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The best animal photos of 2018

In the year's most striking animal photos, a butterfly gets into trouble, a raccoon climbs a building, and more

Picture of Jacob Lambert
by Jacob Lambert
December 27, 2018

A raccoon climbs a building in St. Paul, Minnesota.

(Evan Frost/MPR News/via REUTERS)

Kenya Wildlife Service rangers load a tranquilized elephant onto a truck during a translocation exercise.

(REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)

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A keeper looks inside the mouth of a sea lion at Tiergarten Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria.

(EPA-EFE/LISI NIESNER)

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A butterfly flies into the jaws of a crocodile in Tarcoles, Costa Rica.

(EPA-EFE/JEFFREY ARGUEDAS)

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A display of stuffed frogs at the Frog Museum in Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland.

(REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)

A woman dresses her cat before an Orthodox Easter celebration in central Kiev, Ukraine.

(REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko)

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Oil is cleaned off swans near Hoek van Holland, The Netherlands.

(EPA-EFE/ALEXANDER SCHIPPERS)

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