Who’s a pretty boy then? A dog with animal designs at a creative grooming competition in Seacaucus, New Jersey. From picture desk live: the best news images of the day

Photograph: Ren Netherland/Barcroft Media

Family album of pampered pugs - in pictures Phillip Lauer and his wife Sue have, for the past six years, been transforming their dogs Blue, Bono and Roxy into fictional characters, rock stars and members of the royal family.

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White lion breeding at UK wildlife parks linked to ‘canned hunting’.

They are a rare and beautiful variant of an ordinary lion, a big cat with a recessive gene that gives it striking white fur. But two British wildlife parks have been accused of unethical practices for breeding white lions taken from a farm linked to “canned hunting” in South Africa and allowing cubs to be petted for £250 a time.

Photograph: Rhian Grey/Paradise Wildlife Park

Karen Vacco, assistant mammal curator at the Pittsburgh zoo and aquarium, holds a seven-week-old baby gorilla. The baby gorilla is receiving personal treatment after keepers and staff noticed Moka, the baby’s mother, could not produce an adequate supply of milk for the baby. From picture desk live: the day’s best news images

Photograph: Anna Bentley/AP

Eastern Screech owlets in a tree in Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, US. From picture desk live: the day’s best news images

Photograph: Graham McGeorge/Barcroft Media

A rather rude ring-tailed lemur looks out of his window at the zoo in Rostock, Germany. Depending on the weather, the animals in the zoo will move to their outdoor enclosures shortly.

Photograph: Bernd Wustneck/AFP/Getty Images

A wolf cub yawns as it takes its first steps outside its den in Vienna Zoo. The cubs were born on April 27, in a natural den which was dug by the parent wolf in the semi-natural Arctic wolf enclosure in the zoo.

From picture desk: live, our team’s pick of the most noteworthy (and cutest) images of the day.

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Springboks attracted by a spotlight, Zimbabwe. From GuardianWitness light – Your best pictures

Photograph: Laurent Godfroy

Australia’s iconic marsupial is under threat. Formerly hunted almost to extinction for their woolly coats, koalas are now struggling to survive as habitat destruction caused by droughts and bushfires, land clearing for agriculture and logging, and mining and urban development conspire against this cuddly creature.

Photograph: John Giustina/Getty Images

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A giant panda rests on a tree in Ya’an, Sichuan province, China - one of the many images in environmentguardian.co.uk’s week in wildlife gallery

Photograph: Reuters