The week in wildlife – in pictures
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Havelland, Germany. A sheep’s wagtail sings on a branch in the Havel floodplain. The species likes to stay on fields or wet meadows near herds of cattle, hence its name
Photograph: Ingolf Konig-Jablonski/dpa
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A sea of yellow sunflowers at Little Heath farm, Cheshire, UK. Mark Jones and his family, who live on the National Trust tenanted farm, have been working with the team at nearby Dunham Massey to introduce a new crop of sunflowers
Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
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Antelopes run through a field at Kanjari village on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India
Photograph: Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images
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Britain’s population of hazel dormice has halved since 2000, a report by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species warned. A quarter of Britain’s native mammals are at imminent risk of extinction, according to the scientists who have compiled the country’s first official Red List of endangered species
Photograph: Clare Pengelly/PA
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A marimonda monkey walks on a rope during environmental enrichment training at Bioparque Wakata in Jaime Duque park, near Bogota, Colombia
Photograph: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images
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A long-tailed goral at the Sikhote-Alin nature reserve. The 4,000 hectare (1,000 acres) biosphere reserve is the largest in Russia’s Primorye Krai and is on the Unesco World Heritage list
Photograph: Yuri Smityuk/Tass/Getty Images
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With only about 100 amur leopards remaining in the wild, capturing one on camera was a rare feat. Snow leopards, tapirs, oriental storks and many others feature in WWF’s new collection
Photograph: Land of Leopard National Park/WWF
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Villagers try to push a whale back into the sea at Lie Jaka beach in Sabu Raijua, Indonesia. Ten whales covered in deep cuts were found dead on a beach, a week after a giant blue whale washed up in the same region
Photograph: Indonesian nature conservation agency/AFP/Getty Images
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Silverback gorilla Rafiki in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest national park in 2019. A court jailed a man for 11 years for offences that include the killing of the beloved mountain gorilla
Photograph: Joshua Guenther/AP
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A blue crab at on the riverbank near the Divjaka Lagoon in Albania. The crabs are pretty but dangerous as they rip fishing nets and upset ecosystems off the country’s coast
Photograph: Gent Shkullaku/AFP/Getty Images
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Fraser’s dolphins in the South China Sea. Chinese researchers have spotted 11 whale species in the region during a deep-sea scientific expedition
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
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An echidna in a burned area of an Australian forest. Nearly 3 billion animals were killed or displaced by the country’s devastating bushfire seasons of 2019 and 2020, say scientists
Photograph: Douglas Thron/WWF-Australia
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A honey bee collecting nectar and pollen from flowers on the outskirts of Ajmer village in Rajasthan, India
Photograph: Himanshu Sharma/NurPhoto/PA Images
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A great hamster of Alsace in Jungholtz in France, where a breeding centre dedicated to the reintroduction of the species is located
Photograph: Frederick Florin/AFP/Getty Images
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A cattle egret in wetland on the outskirts in Delhi, India. The cattle egret is a cosmopolitan species of heron
Photograph: Harish Tyagi/EPA
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A weaver bird rests in a nest on a tree on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India
Photograph: Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images
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