FOTOGRAFÍA. Animal photographs of the year 2014 by THE GUARDIAN

 Newborn giant panda triplets are seen inside an incubator at the Chimelong safari park in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China Photograph: Reuters

A northern cardinal sits on a tree branch in falling snow in the New York City suburb of Nyack Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

A family of wild beavers on the Rosenheim near Munich, Germany Photograph: Kutschenreiter/Arco/Solent

Red-crowned cranes take a rest in Tsurui, Japan Photograph: Xinhua /Landov / Barcroft Media

A lion yawns at the zoo in Berlin, Germany Photograph: Maurizio Gambarini/dpa/Corbis

A male red deer with antlers covered in bracken, walks through undergrowth in Richmond Park, London Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Masked puffer seen underwater in Red Sea, Egypt Photograph: Andrey Nekrasov/Barcroft Media

Stranded cattle in the flooded region of Ballivian province, Bolivia Photograph: David Mercado/Reuters

A Bryde’s whale and seagulls feast on anchovies in the Gulf of Thailand Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

A western lowland gorilla named Mbeli holds her baby in their enclosure at Sydney’s Taronga zoo Photograph: David Gray/Reuters

A polar bear traverses the ice in Canada Photograph: Justin Hofman/Barcroft Media

A three-month-old macaque bites its toe in front of a fan heater at a wildlife park in Kunming, Yunnan province, China Photograph: Wong Campion/Reuters

A swallow feeds her babies in their nest under the ceiling of a residential house in Dongfeng township, China Photograph: Reuters

An orphaned baby rhino in Lewa wildlife conservancy, Ngare Ndare Forest, Kenya. Photograph: Luca Ghidoni/Barcroft Media

A fox walks in a forest in the Nalibokskaya Pushcha reserve, west of Minsk, Belarus Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

Japanese macaques (or snow monkeys) groom each other in a hot spring at a snow-covered valley in Yamanouchi town, Japan Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters

An eagle owl fluffs out its feathers as it sits on one foot on a branch in its enclosure at the Grugapark, Germany Photograph: Ina Fassbender/Reuters

One of the first seal pups of the season to have been born at the site of one of England’s biggest colonies, Blakeney Point Photograph: Justin Minns/The National Trust/PA

A flock of starlings fly over an agricultural field near Netivot, Israel Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters

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