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

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A crocodile and a butterfly.
A raccoon climbs a building in St. Paul, Minnesota.
(Image credit: (Evan Frost/MPR News/via REUTERS))

Kenya Wildlife Service rangers load a tranquilized elephant onto a truck during a translocation exercise.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya))

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

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

A display of stuffed frogs at the Frog Museum in Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse))

A woman dresses her cat before an Orthodox Easter celebration in central Kiev, Ukraine.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko))

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

Jacob Lambert
Jacob Lambert

Jacob Lambert is the art director of TheWeek.com. He was previously an editor at MAD magazine, and has written and illustrated for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly, and The Millions.