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A red deer stag and hind caress in Richmond park at sunrise in south-west London
Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images
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Sri Lankan axis deer at the Yala national park in the southern district of Yala, about 250km south-west of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Photograph: Ishara S Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images
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A Tasmanian devil in mainland Australia. Tasmanian devils have been released into the wild on Australia’s mainland, 3,000 years after the feisty marsupials went extinct there, in what conservationists described as a ‘historic’ step
Photograph: Aussie Ark/AFP/Getty Images
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A bee sucks nectar from a night-blooming jasmine (Cestrum nocturnum), one of its favourites, at the end of spring in San Salvador, El Salvador. In the future, drone-delivered soap bubbles could pollinate flowers due to the decline in the bee population, according to a Japanese study
Photograph: Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images
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Nobody knows why Grazer, a 15-year-old mother bear, is so aggressive, but she has won a devoted following with Katmai national park’s Bear Cam live-streaming
Photograph: Kara Stenberg/Katmai National Park and Reserve
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An aerial view of the four-metre fence at the Casteller wildlife park in Trentino province, Italy, where M49, AKA Papillon the bear, is detained together with two other bears. Once one of Europe’s ‘most wanted’ wild animals, the now incarcerated bear has become symbolic of the conflict over the reintroduction of large predators
Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian
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A wood owl nursed back to health in a wildlife rehabilitation centre and released into its natural habitat in the Troitsky and Novomoskovsky districts of Moscow, to mark World Animal Day on 4 October
Photograph: Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS/Getty images
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Opilio crabs washed up on Khalaktyrsky beach in Kamchatka, Russia. Ecologists have taken samples of dead shellfish, water and soil for analysis in Moscow. The Hydrometeorological Service has detected an excessive content of phenol and petroleum products in the coastal zone near the beach, with local residents reporting a mass stranding of marine animals
Photograph: Yelena Vereshchaka/TASS/Getty images
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The Cathedral Rocks in Yosemite national park, US, rise through smoke from multiple fires. In a special two-part podcast Patrick Greenfield and Phoebe Weston investigate whether national parks actually benefit the environment and biodiversity, or if there is a better way of doing things
Photograph: John Goodman/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock
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Which weird Australian fuzzy mammal you are possibly unfamiliar with is your favourite? Let’s find out!
Illustration: First Dog on the Moon/The Guardian
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A critically endangered helmeted hornbill in Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia. Wildlife in Fraser’s Hill is threatened by a development of a 15-storey resort and spa that will be operated by Accor when it is completed in six years
Photograph: WK Liew
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A poisonous bocara snake at the Clodomiro Picado Institute, in San Jose, Costa Rica, which is developing a coronavirus drug based on its half-century experience in the production of antivenom, which it currently exports to other central American countries, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and several African nations
Photograph: Ezequiel Becerra/AFP/Getty Images
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A Mountain ringlet (Erebia epiphron) butterfly. Populations of mountain ringlet in the English Lake District are the most diverse in Europe after those in the western Alps, but they face being wiped out by global heating of 2-3C above pre-industrial levels. The species has already moved 130-150 metres uphill over the past five decades and it will eventually ‘run out of mountain’, researchers say
Photograph: Andrew Bladon/University of Cambridge/AFP/Getty Images
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A newborn Southern Pudu baby with his mother in the enclosure at Cologne Zoo, Germany. The Southern Pudu is the smallest deer species in the world and doesn’t get much bigger than a hare
Photograph: Friedemann Vogel/EPA
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A marsh frog sits in water at Patara Ancient City in the Kas district of Antalya, Turkey. Patara was the leading city of Lycia when it was ruled by Ptolemy in the 3rd century. Now the ancient city hosts species of birds and reptiles
Photograph: Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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The winners of the 2020 The Royal Society of Biology photography competition were announced this week . Photograph Of The Year went to ‘Dangerous garbage-eating elephants’ by Tilaxan Tharmapalan in Ampara District, Sri Lanka
Photograph: Tilaxan Tharmapalan/Royal Society of Biology Photography Competition
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Jip, a Harris’s hawk, sits on the Nelson’s column in Trafalgar square in London, Britain. Harris’s hawks are trained birds of preys that are used by trained handlers to keep the pigeons away
Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA
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One of three northern bottlenose whales swims near Garelochhead, Argyll and Bute in Scotland. The three whales have been stuck in Gare Loch near Faslane naval base, apparently unable to find their way back to the north Atlantic
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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A stingray at a diving site in the Cesme district of Izmir, Turkey
Photograph: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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The charred remains of two caraya monkeys (black-and-gold howlers) and a yacare caiman at the San Cayetano nature reserve in Corrientes, Argentina, where half of the country’s 23 provinces are enduring the worst fires in decades, causing sore eyes and breathing difficulties in a number of smoke-invaded cities, while destroying wildlife
Photograph: Marita Romero
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A man walking along an unusually quiet Karon beach in Phuket, which has experienced a lack of tourists due to ongoing restrictions relating to Covid-19
Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images
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On Monday night, the residents of Puerto Cisnes, Chile, a coastal town 1,500km (932 miles) south of the capital, Santiago, were treated to the spectacle of a two-tonne elephant seal hauling itself through their neighbourhoods
Photograph: Manuel Novoa
