The week in wildlife – in pictures

A rabbit in Tiergarten Park in Berlin, Germany

A goldenrod crab spider (
Misumena vatia) walks on a flower in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle, northern France

Rose-ringed parakeets in a forest in Kathmandu. Nepal is a favoured breeding destination for the migratory birds. More than 900 bird species have been spotted in the country

Needlegrass glitters in the morning sun near Nogradmegyer, Hungary. Also called feather grass, it provides forage and can be used as raw material for the production of ropes, cords and paper

A Eurasian hoopoe (
Upupa epops) captured in flight while feeding its chicks at the entrance of their nest in a hole in a tree, in Gyeonggi province, South Korea

A bumblebee sits on a poppy in London, Britain

A crab-eating fox (
Cerdocyon thous) – also known as the forest fox, wood fox, or maikong – is seen in the wild in the municipality of Guasca, Colombia

Monkeys scrambling for food during feeding time at the Hlawga wildlife park on the outskirts of Yangon. The Myanmar facility remains closed during the coronavirus pandemic

Footage of the last known
thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) prowling around his cage at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1935. According to experts, the footage was filmed months before the now-extinct animal died

Traffic jams around
Yosemite national park seem a distant memory as the closure during the coronavirus outbreak approaches two months. Deer, bobcats and black bears have congregated around buildings, along roads and other parts of the park, which is typically teeming with visitors. One coyote was spotted by staff lounging in an empty car park

Hunters and volunteers look for fawns in a meadow near the small Bavarian village of Uberacker, close to Munich in southern Germany. Before farmers’ meadows are mowed, people try to find the fawns, which are released immediately afterwards so their mothers can find them

A small fawn lies in a meadow in Uberacker, southern Germany

Flamingos crowd a muddy area in Navi Mumbai, India. Migratory birds arrive in the winter from different parts of India and neighbouring countries. They tend to leave in spring

A family of elephants graze in Ol Pejeta conservation facility in Kenya. Wildlife tourism is a big source of revenue in many parts of Africa and wildlife parks have been hit particularly hard by international coronavirus travel restrictions. Some parks have been sharing broadcasts of safaris on social media in the hope that the plight of endangered animals and other species is not forgotten

Gonda, a rescued orangutan orphan, is cradled by Signe Preuschoft, the founder of
Four Paws Forest School. The animal is learning various life skills in preparation for an eventual return to the wild in Borneo, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

A pair of grey crowned cranes at a zoo in Fuengirola, near Malaga, Spain. After nine weeks without visitors because of the coronavirus lockdown, many animals’ lives and behaviours have changed

Clearer waters and empty beaches have led to the return of animal species in Guanabara Bay, Botafogo, a normally heavily polluted area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A
young white grizzly bear plays in Canada’s Rocky Mountains

A giant
South American river turtle (
Podocnemis expansa), equipped with a tiny acoustic transmitter, lumbers back to its watery home in the Meta River in eastern Colombia. Scientists have been fitting turtles with the devices to better understand the movements of the species, which is the largest freshwater turtle in Latin America