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Animal Tracks: April 21-27

A peacock that shakes his tail feathers and 17 more of the week's best animal photos

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Image: Racka sheep are seen during celebrations of the start of the new grazing season in the Great Hungarian Plain in Hortobagy

Crowd pleaser

Racka sheep are seen at the start of the new grazing season in the Great Hungarian Plain in Hortobagy, Budapest on April 26.

— Laszlo Balogh / X90146
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Show off

A male peacock displays his feathers and shakes them to attract the attention of female peacocks at Gut Aiderbichl in Henndorf, Austria on April 26.

— Kerstin Joensson / AP
Image: A cat sleeps on a cushion at the cat cafe in New York

Cat nap

A cat sleeps on a cushion at a cat cafe in New York on April 23.

— Carlo Allegri / X02452
Image: A cat looks out a window at a cat cafe in New York

City kitty

A cat looks out a window at a cat cafe in New York April 23. The cat cafe is a pop-up promotional cafe that features cats and beverages.

— Carlo Allegri / X02452
Image: Women line up beside a stray dog to cast their vote outside a polling station in Vrindavan

Cutting in line

A stray dog stands near women in a line in Vrindavan, India on April 24.

— Ahmad Masood / X90061
Image: A sheep with dyed pink wool grazes in a field near the village of Balintoy

A new look

A sheep with pink-dyed wool grazes in a field near the village of Ballintoy, Ireland on April 24.

— Cathal Mcnaughton / X02612
Image: 27 year old white polar bear Uslada shakes off water in her pool at the Leningrad Zoo in St. Petersburg

Drying off

Uslada, a white polar bear, shakes off water in her pool at the Leningrad Zoo in St. Petersburg, Russia on April 24.

— Alexander Demianchuk / X90067
Image: A British Shorthair is presented during a local cat exhibition in Almaty

Hat on the cat

A British Shorthair is presented during a local cat exhibition in Almaty, Kazakhstan on April 26.

— Shamil Zhumatov / X00499
Image: Cattle gather in a field near an ECO 110 wind turbine manufactured Alstom in the Landes de Couesme wind farm near La Gacilly

Windy cattle

Cattle gather in a field near a wind turbine in the Landes de Couesme wind farm near La Gacilly, France on April 26.

— Stephane Mahe / X02520
Image: Orcas or killer whales are seen offshore at Punta Norte, near the Patagonian village of Puerto Piramides

Up for air

Orcas are seen offshore at near Puerto Piramides, Argentina on April 22.

— Stringer / X80002
Image: A child looks at a squirrel at the Royal Lazienki Park

A new friend

A young boy feeds a brown squirrel some bread crumbs during his visit to the Royal Lazienki Park in Warsaw, Poland on April 21.

— Grzegorz Jakubowski / PAP
Image: Nature in New Delhi on World Earth Day

Landing spot

A Plain Tiger Butterfly rests on a flower in Nehru Park in New Delhi, India on April 22.

— Harish Tyagi / EPA
Image: Curious cow

Well, hello there

A curious cow looks into a photographer's camera at a petting farm near Purgen, Germany on April 23.

— Nicolas Armer / DPA
Image: Eichhörnchen und Teddybär verstehen sich gut

Unlikely friends

A squirrel looks at a small teddy bear in Hamburg, Germany on April 23.

— Werner Struss / Hw / Action Press
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Bird by bird

Two white storks sit in their nest in Biebesheim, Germany, on April 23.

— Boris Roessler / DPA
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Hi, mom!

A Java mouse-deer cub, one of the world's smallest hoofed animals, nuzzles up to its mother at the Fuengirola Biopark in Spain on April 25.

— Jorge Guerrero / AFP
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Tall grass

A ladybug sits on a blade of grass in Kempten, Germany on April 25.

— Karl-josef Hildenbrand / DPA
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Like father, like son

Jengo, a baby gorilla, sits in front of his father Abeeku at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany on April 24.

— Jens Meyer / AP
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