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The week in wildlife – in pictures

June 25, 2021
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  • A flock of birds fly in front of the sun during sunset at Lake Van in Turkey

    Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

    A flock of birds fly in front of the sun during sunset at the Lake Van in Turkey

  • An elephant searches for food in the kitchen of Ratchadawan Puengprasoppon in Chalermkiatpattana village, Thailand. It’s not the first time the elephant has come looking for food

    Photograph: Radchadawan Peungprasopporn/Facebook/AFP/Getty Images

    An elephant searches for food in the kitchen of Ratchadawan Puengprasoppon in Chalermkiatpattana village, Thailand. It's not the first time the elephant has come looking for food

  • One of the six spotted seal pups released back into the sea by the Tyulen rehabilitation centre for marine mammals. The seals were released into the Peter the Great Gulf off Zheltukhina Island in Russia

    Photograph: Yuri Smityuk/TASS

    One of the six spotted seal pups released back into the sea by the Tyulen rehabilitation centre for marine mammals. The seals were released into the Peter the Great Gulf off Zheltukhina Island in Russia.

  • A staff member checks one of the newly born twin cubs delivered by giant panda Shin Shin at Tokyo’s Ueno zoo. It was Shin Shin’s first delivery in four years

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    A staff member checks one of the newly-born twin cubs delivered by giant panda Shin Shin at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. It was Shin Shin's first delivery in four years

  • Clockwise from top left: naturally coloured female; female painted like a male; male painted like a female; naturally coloured male. Researchers have come up with an ingenious way to test the theory that male jumping spiders have evolved colourful stripes to ward off predators – they’ve put makeup on them. Unlike the females of the species, the shells of the male Habronattus pyrrithrix come in vivid hues

    Photograph: Royal Society Open Science

    Clockwise from top left: naturally-coloured female; female painted like a male; male painted like a female; naturally-coloured male. Researchers have come up with an ingenious way to test the theory that male jumping spiders have evolved colourful stripes to ward off predators - they've put makeup on them. Unlike the females of the species, the shells of the male Habronattus pyrrithrix come in vivid hues

  • A degradation of wetland in Ghana. South-western Ghana is home to different wetland habitats, including peatlands, mangroves and palm swamps. However, overexploitation, deforestation, pollution, hydrologic alterations and climate change are reshaping tropical forest biodiversity around the region

    Photograph: Muntaka Chasant/REX/Shutterstock

    A degradation of wetland in Ghana. South-western Ghana is home to different wetland habitats, including peatlands, mangroves and palm swamps. However, overexploitation, deforestation, pollution, hydrologic alterations and climate change are shaping tropical forest biodiversity around the region

  • A rose chafer beetle (Cetonia aurata) feeds itself in a poppy in Bournemouth, UK

    Photograph: Carolyn Jenkins/Alamy Live News

    A Rose Chafer beetle (cetonia aurata), feeds in poppy in Bournemouth, UK

  • An endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle at the Audubon Nature Institute. The turtle arrived with kidney failure, a ruptured right eye and severe pneumonia after being cold-stunned and rescued from frigid New England waters. Vets hope to have it healthy enough for release this summer

    Photograph: AP

    An endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle at the Audubon Nature Institute. The turtle arrived with kidney failure, a ruptured right eye and severe pneumonia after being cold-stunned and rescued from frigid New England waters. Vets hope to have it healthy enough for release this summer

  • A school of fish swim above a staghorn coral colony as it grows on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, Australia. Unesco has this week recommended that the Great Barrier Reef world heritage site should be listed as in danger

    Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

    A school of fish swim above a staghorn coral colony as it grows on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns. Unesco have this week recommended that the Great Barrier Reef world heritage site should be listed as 'in danger'

  • An immature planthopper nymph in West Bengal, India. The white filaments or fluff are a waxy substance produced by the planthopper as protection

    Photograph: Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

    An immature planthopper nymph in West Bengal, India. The white filaments or fluff are a waxy substance produced by the planthopper as protection

  • Two azure damselflies rest on a grass stem for the night in Aberystwyth, Wales

    Photograph: Philip Jones/Alamy Live News/Alamy Live News.

    Two azure damselflies rest on a grass stem for the night in Aberystwyth, Wales

  • Wild Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales is a new environmental project that has been billed as a blueprint for landscape restoration ahead of the COP26 climate summit. Over the next 12 months, the Wild Ingleborough project will create around 40 hectares of new native woodland through the planting of 30,000 trees and natural regeneration

    Photograph: Joseph Gray/World Wildlife Fund/PA

    Wild Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales is a new environmental project that has been billed as a blueprint for landscape restoration ahead of the COP26 climate summit. Over the next 12 months, the Wild Ingleborough project will create around 40 hectares of new native woodland through the planting of 30,000 trees and natural regeneration

  • A painted stork flies over the Anasagar lake in Ajmer, India

    Photograph: Himanshu Sharma/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

    A painted stork flies over the Anasagar lake in Ajmer, India

  • Muzuka is a six-year-old mountain gorilla rescued from a poacher’s snare, losing a foot in the process. Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo operates a shelter for gorillas that have been orphaned or rescued. Photographer Hugh Kinsella Cunningham won a Wellcome photography 2021 shortlist place for this photo

    Photograph: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/Wellcome Photography Prize 2021

    Muzuka is a six-year-old mountain gorilla rescued from a poacher's snare, losing a foot in the process. Virunga National Park operates a shelter for gorillas that have been orphaned or rescued. Photographer Hugh Kinsella Cunningham won a Wellcome photography 2021 shortlist place for this photo

  • A whale shark swims next to volunteer divers after they removed an abandoned fishing net that was covering a coral reef in a protected area of Ko Losin, Thailand

    Photograph: Jorge Silva/Reuters

    A whale shark swims next to volunteer divers after they removed an abandoned fishing net that was covering a coral reef in a protected area of Ko Losin, Thailand

  • Wildlife officials carry away the carcass of a turtle that was washed ashore at the beach of Angulana, Sri Lanka. A container ship that caught fire while transporting chemicals off Colombo has been leaking into the coastal areas of Sri Lanka

    Photograph: Ishara S Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images

    Wildlife officials carry away the carcass of a turtle that was washed ashore at the beach of Angulana, Sri Lanka. A container ship that caught fire while transporting chemicals off Colombo has been leaking into the coastal areas of Sri Lanka

  • Baby lesser crested terns on Kubbar Island, Kuwait.

    Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock

    Baby lesser crested terns on Kubbar Island, Kuwait.

  • Animals sit on the bed at the pet-friendly Days Inn hotel at Roadchef Norton Canes, West Midlands, UK. Days Inn will be opening their doors to pets and owners across the nation at Roadchef motorway service areas, providing pets with fresh drinking water and outside space

    Photograph: Fabio De Paola/PA

    Animals sit on the bed at the pet-friendly Days Inn hotel at Roadchef Norton Canes, West Midlands, UK. Days Inn will be opening their doors to pets and owners across the nation at Roadchef motorway service areas, providing pets with fresh drinking water and outside space

  • Laura Griffin, a PhD student in wildlife, ecology and behaviour at University College Dublin lets a days-old fallow deer fawn out of its weighing bag

    Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

    Laura Griffin, a PHD student in Wildlife, Ecology and Behaviour at University College Dublin lets a days-old fallow deer fawn out of its weighing bag

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