The week in wildlife – in pictures
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With his regular haunts closed because of Covid-19, Mumbai photographer and naturalist Rizwan Mithawala turned his lens on his windowbox, capturing the life cycle of visiting red pierrots
Photograph: Rizwan Mithawala
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A dartford warbler at Thursley common in Elstead, Surrey
Photograph: James Jagger/Alamy
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Oregon, US. As grains of pollen rain down, a grasshopper feeds on minuscule grass seed flowers on a hillside near Elkton in a rural part of the state
Photograph: Robin Loznak/Zuma Press/PA Images
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Dulmen, Germany. A tiny fawn is still shaky on its little legs. The resident large herd of fallow deer has grown and more than 20 fawns curiously explore their forest and meadowland surroundings
Photograph: Imageplotter/Alamy
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Summer flowers in the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust’s Rose End Meadows, Cromford, a series of meadows, which are never treated with artificial fertiliser or herbicide. They create a vivid picture of how Derbyshire’s limestone farmland looked about 100 years ago
Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
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A yellow crab spider catches a butterfly sitting on flowers in Van, Turkey
Photograph: Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Heavy frost covers the grass as the sun rises on a freezing winter morning in Johannesburg, South Africa
Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA
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Longtail macaques pull the tail of a cat in an abandoned building in the town of Lopburi, 155km north of Bangkok
Photograph: AFP Contributor/Getty Images
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A turtle at an event at the ministry of environment in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Photograph: Kith Serey/EPA
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A Sumatran orangutan in the forest area of Lake Lau Kawar in North Sumatra, Indonesia
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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As well as the Persian leopard, the region’s apex predator, at least 17 bird species are threatened with extinction in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to Nature Iraq
Photograph: Behzad Farahanchi
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A male lion rests at Nairobi national park. According to Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association, Kenya has lost 70% of its wildlife in the last 30 years
Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images
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An image taken with a drone shows roe deer in the grass near the village of Ortvinovice, South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Photograph: Jakub Polensky/EPA
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Researchers have found Adelie penguins, the most common species of penguin in Antarctica, enjoy more favourable foraging conditions during unusual ice-free conditions
Photograph: Yuuki Watanabe/National Institute of Polar Research/PA
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Entomologist Chris Looney holds a dead Asian giant hornet, a sample brought to Blaine, Washington, US from Japan. The new Asian hornets that have been found in the state are not likely to be deadly to humans
Photograph: Elaine Thompson/AP
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Onon, a common cuckoo from Mongolia, has amazed conservationists and kept social media fans amused. During global lockdowns, fans followed online updates from the Mongolia Cuckoo Project
Photograph: Mongolia Cuckoo project/Birding Beijing
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Lions wedge themselves in a candelabra tree, near Queen Elizabeth national park in Uganda
Photograph: Alexander Braczkowski
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A leopard caught in a trap in a forest in Karnataka, India
Photograph: AP
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A jungle cat, which is considered an endangered species in Turkey
Photograph: Emin Yogurtcuoglu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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A Bateleur eagle perches in a cage at a wildlife park in Khartoum
Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images
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A humpback whales and calves at Exmouth Gulf during an experiment to test how they react to noise from whale watching boats
Photograph: Kate Sprogis/Aarhus University
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A Chinese pangolin at Save Vietnam’s Wildlife rescue centre in Cuc Phuong national park. The pangolin is the only scaly mammal and also the most trafficked animal in the world
Photograph: Linh Pham/Getty Images
