The week in wildlife – in pictures: fluffy kiwi chicks, a ‘swimming’ mole and a lucky duck
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Photograph: Tom Shlesinger/Royal Society Publishing
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Photograph: Dr Christine Stockum
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Photograph: Uli Deck/DPA/Cover Images
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Photograph: Simon Litten/mediadrumimages/Simon Litton
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Photograph: Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
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Photograph: David Tipling/SWNS
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Photograph: Rolf Hicker Photography/Alamy
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Photograph: Joern Koehler/San Marcos University's Museum of Natural History/AFP/Getty Images
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