The week in wildlife – in pictures

A roebuck stands on a mountaintop during the blue hour of the evening in Wiesenthau, Bavaria.

Green ring-necked (rose-ringed) parakeets feed from a cherry tree in blossom in a garden, in Twickenham, London.

A
hare runs over a field near Frankfurt, Germany.

Birds reappear in the bay amid the lack of cars along the coastal highway as a result of a quarantine imposed to help contain the spread of coronavirus in Asuncion, Paraguay.

A
blue-and-yellow macaw (
Ara ararauna) flies in Caracas, Venezuela.

Zeborong, the snow leopard, walks away after revival from sedation, after successful collaring. Two snow leopards in Nepal have been fitted with satellite collars to gather information that could help protect the threatened species. The elusive mountain-dwelling cats are found in just 12 countries in Asia, where they face a raft of threats including loss of prey, poaching and illegal trade, conflict with humans and loss of habitat

Signage for the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado, where 39 tigers rescued from Joe Exotic’s GW Exotic Animal Park currently reside. Exotic, star of the wildly successful
Netflix docu-series Tiger King, is currently in prison for a murder-for-hire plot and surrendered some of his animals to the Wild Animal Sanctuary. The sanctuary cares for 550 animals on reserves in Colorado.

A bluethroat (
Luscinia svecica) in the Wagbachniederung nature reservation in Waghausel, Germany. The Wagbachniederung is an important breeding and resting place for breeding birds, which are endangered by extinction, and is one of the most important bird protection areas in Germany.

Naples zoo launches its Support the Zoo campaign. The zoo is currently closed because of restrictions in place because of coronavirus. The zoo is asking potential visitors to buy a ticket without a specified date to pay for care and food for the animals.

A duck in a Paris street. France has extended its nationwide coronavirus lockdown until 15 April. People have been forced to stay at home, except for trips for purposes of work, health needs or shopping for necessities.

Foxes move from isolated areas of Yarkon park to seek food after it became deserted owing to the coronavirus lockdown in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Gulls take off from a fish market in the Turkish capital. Ankara is located in the centre of Turkey with the nearest coastline about 167 miles away

Men give bananas to monkeys in New Delhi, India, as the country remains under coronavirus lockdown. Wild animals are roaming human settlements in India as people are staying indoors. A
study says 60% of the new diseases found around the globe every year are zoonotic, meaning they originate in animals and are passed on to humans. Covid-19 is zoonotic and suspected to have come from the wet markets of Wuhan, China.

A shelter for stray cats with Istanbul’s Maiden’s Tower in the background, after the government stepped up measures to stem rapidly growing coronavirus cases in Turkey but refused to impose a full lockdown.

Black grouse outside the village of Khotenchitsy in the Minsk region of Belarus.

A turtle’s beak rises above the waters as the sun sets over the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland in Australia. Scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science are looking at how
so-called super corals (corals that can resist increased water temperatures) could be used to save the reefs from bleaching.

Coral bleaching at Holmes Reef, about 135 miles east of Cairns, Queensland, Australia. One quarter of the Great Barrier Reef suffered
severe bleaching this summer in the most widespread outbreak ever witnessed, according to analysis of aerial surveys of more than 1,000 individual reefs.