Pictures of the year: The best animal pictures of 2022

By air, land, and sea, here are our top animal photos from around the world

Published: December 13, 2022 11:05 Reuters and Compiled by Christian Borbon, Senior Web Editor

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An Indian rhino is pictured during the second heatwave of the year at the Zoo Aquarium in Madrid, Spain. Image Credit: Reuters

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Two Red-eyed Tree frogs (Agalychnis callidryas) mate at “Exotic Fauna" breeding zoo, where exotic animals are reproduced to be marketed as pets in U.S., Canada and Asia, in Ticuantepe, on the outskirts of Managua, Nicaragua. Image Credit: Reuters

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A shark cruises over the ocean bottom during a scuba trip with dive company Emerald Charters off Jupiter Inlet, Florida. Image Credit: Reuters

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A 19-year-old partially blind tiger named Rambo looks on from inside a cage on a truck, after being rescued by a team of veterinarians and Wildlife Friends Foundation staff from a bankrupted Phuket Zoo, which was forced to shut down after the COVID-19 crisis and the lack of tourism in Phuket, Thailand. Image Credit: Reuters

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A biologist poses with newly-hatched Cuban crocodiles (Crocodylus rhombifer) as they are relocated at a hatchery at Zapata Swamp, Cienaga de Zapata, Cuba, August 25. Cuban crocodiles, an endemic species found only here and in a swamp on Cuba's Isle of Youth, are critically endangered and have the smallest natural habitat left of any living crocodile species, scientists say. Image Credit: Reuters

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A peregrine falcon calls out as it perches on a branch above the Palisades Cliffs in Alpine, New Jersey. Image Credit: Reuters

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An axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), or Mexican salamander, floats in a tank, as part of a conservation project to preserve the species in Xochimilco in Mexico City, Mexico. Image Credit: Reuters

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Whitetail deer are pictured at sunset in Buffalo, New York. Image Credit: Reuters

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Dogs pose for a photo at Happy Bark Day, a dog cafe in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Reuters

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Janus, a two-headed Greek tortoise named after the Roman god with two heads, is washed with a toothbrush one day ahead of his 25th birthday at the Natural History Museum in Geneva, Switzerland. Image Credit: Reuters

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A white-handed gibbon infant born at the Skopje Zoo is seen with his mother in Skopje, North Macedonia. Image Credit: Reuters

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New born crabs run on a beach, during low tide, at the edge of the Casamance River, on Kafar island, Senegal. Image Credit: Reuters

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Ring-tailed lemurs eat a pumpkin ahead of Halloween, at Pairi Daiza zoo in Brugelette, Belgium. Image Credit: Reuters

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A flock of starlings fills the sky in the village of Val-de-Vesle near Reims, France. Image Credit: Reuters

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