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

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)

A keeper looks inside the mouth of a sea lion at Tiergarten Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria.
(EPA-EFE/LISI NIESNER)

A butterfly flies into the jaws of a crocodile in Tarcoles, Costa Rica.
(EPA-EFE/JEFFREY ARGUEDAS)

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)

Oil is cleaned off swans near Hoek van Holland, The Netherlands.
(EPA-EFE/ALEXANDER SCHIPPERS)