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Colobus monkeys eat the flowers of a flamboyant tree, also known as Royal Poinciana, in Diani Beach, Kenya
Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters
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A bee collects nectar from a lotus flower in a pond in Singapore
Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
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Egrets fly before taking up a position for fishing in a waterhole in the Barpeta district of Assam, India
Photograph: EPA
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Ocellaris clownfish swimming on an anenome near Koh Lipe island, a popular diving area in the Andaman Sea, off the southern Thai province of Satun
Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images
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An American robin feasts on bright-red English holly berries on a tree near Elkton in rural western Oregon. Originally planted to be decorative, holly now grows wild in much of the Pacific Northwest and is considered an invasive species. The berries of the holly plant are poisonous to people and pets
Photograph: Robin Loznak/Zuma Press/PA Images
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Wild roe deer on farmland at Oxnam village in the Scottish Borders. The deer will only graze in fields where there is no livestock because it is clean. Roe can be seen in small groups in the winter months
Photograph: Chris Strickland/Alamy
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The ‘devil-eyed’ frog (Oreobates zongoensis), which was previously known only from a single individual observed more than 20 years ago in the Zongo Valley, was rediscovered on the Zongo RAP expedition in Bolivia. It was found to be relatively abundant in the cloud forest where it had not been seen for more than 20 years. Its elusive nature may be partly due to its habit of hiding beneath the thick moss and humus surrounding the roots of bamboo
Photograph: Steffen Reichle/Ecological SWAT team
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Malaysia National Zoo measures to prevent Covid-19 have had a huge effect on zoo activities in Selangor, Malaysia. After losing income due to the visiting restrictions during the Conditional Movement Control Order, Malaysia’s first and largest zoo rejuvenated its ‘Adopt an Animal’ initiative
Photograph: Syaiful Redzuan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Bats flying in the city of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Researchers from Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala are participating this month in a project called Christmas Bat Count, which aims to collect updated information and raise awareness about bats in these countries
Photograph: Cuauhtemoc Moreno/EPA
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Researchers from Brazil’s state-run Fiocruz Institute shine a light on a bat they captured in the Atlantic Forest during a nighttime outing in Pedra Branca state park, near Rio de Janeiro. The outing was part of a project to collect and study viruses present in wild animals – including bats, which many scientists believe were linked to the outbreak of Covid-19
Photograph: Silvia Izquierdo/AP
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A pangolin captured by hunters in the Ituri rainforest, in Mambasa territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The risk of a new pathogen coming into contact with human populations is increased in areas with high biodiversity such as the Congo
Photograph: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA
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A Sumatran orangutan in a cage shortly after landing at the Cargo Terminal of Kualanamu Airport, Deliserdang, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The Ministry of Environment and Forestry succeeded in repatriating 11 Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) from illegal trade originating in Malaysia and Thailand
Photograph: Kiki Cahyadi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Dog-handler Paula Ziadi instructs Truman after he tracked down an 8ft python in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is beginning a new programme to use dogs to sniff out invasive pythons
Photograph: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission/AP
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Wild ducks fly through a marsh area as the top of a newly erected border wall cuts through the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge in Douglas, Arizona, USA. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government-owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique desert and mountain landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible.
Photograph: Matt York/AP
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The Big Pond lacuna, an enigmatic place in the centre of the island where friendly alligators await on the shore, in San Andres Islands, Colombia
Photograph: Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Spotted owlets on a tree branch in Kathmandu, Nepal
Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images
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A study of mountain hares in Scotland found they are not changing their moult times, leaving them lacking appropriate camouflage for an extra 35 days each year on average compared with 65 years ago
Photograph: Giedrius Stakauskas/Alamy Stock Photo
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A great hornbill (Buceros bicornis), also called concave-casqued hornbill and one of the larger members of the hornbill family, lands on the branch of a banyan tree with fruits, Bago Region, Myanmar
Photograph: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
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An endangered Rothschild’s giraffe, blindfolded to keep it calm, is floated on a custom-built rectangular barge from Longicharo Island to the eastern shores of Lake Baringo, to save it from rising lake levels that threaten its future in Kenya
Photograph: AP
