In Pictures: The world of fur, flippers and feathers in 2021
As the coronavirus pandemic continued to disrupt lives, life in the animal kingdom continued as normal.
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2021 was quite a year as pandemic lockdowns and restrictions continued to disrupt lives but in the animal kingdom it was very much business as usual.
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