The week in wildlife – in pictures
-
Low-lying mist across the countryside near Tynygraig, in Ceredigion, Wales.
Photograph: Ian Jones/Alamy Live News.
-
Butterfly at a farm in the Beykoz district of Istanbul, Turkey.
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
-
Autumnal foliage colours create a vibrant tapestry in Jinan, east China.
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
-
A female walrus, nicknamed Freya, takes a nap on top of a submarine at a naval base in North Holland. Freya is the first of her species to visit the Netherlands in 23 years.
Photograph: Jeroen Hoekendijk
-
-
Dalmatian pelicans jostle over a fish meal. Every year about 100 of the birds fly to feast at Lake Kerkini, central Macedonia, Greece.
Photograph: Peter Bradley/Solent News & Photo Agency/Solent News
-
A baby Sumatran orangutan at Mount Leuser National Park, in northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
-
A pekapeka-tou-roa, or long-tailed bat, is the surprise winner of New Zealand’s bird of the year competition. The bats are listed as “nationally critical” for conservation purposes and face the same threats as native birds.
Photograph: Department of Conservation NZ
-
A California condor at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, near Escondido, US. Two captive condors were recently born from unfertilised eggs, suggesting the critically endangered species can reproduce asexually.
Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters
-
-
Fungi and moss in the Bialowieza primeval forest near Teremiski village, Poland.
Photograph: Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty Images
-
Chamois in a meadow with the backdrop of a snow-covered mountain, in St Margrethenberg, Switzerland.
Photograph: Gian Ehrenzeller/AP
-
A six-month-old calf sheltered by its mother at an elephant breeding centre in Chitwan, Nepal.
Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA
-
Flamingos at Amboseli National Park, Nairobi, Kenya. Kilimanjaro’s melting glacier is turning the park into a wetland, with drastic consequences for wildlife and the environment.
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
-
-
The Gower peninsula, south Wales, gains a rainbow as one of the local wild, free-roaming ponies grazes on the hillside.
Photograph: Robert Melen/Rex/Shutterstock
-
A turquoise-fronted amazon parrot (Amazona aestiva) looks into a CCTV camera above a highway, in Curitiba, Brazil.
Photograph: Arteris Planalto Sul/Reuters
-
Baby hawksbill turtles head for the sea at Siloso beach, Sentosa island, Singapore. An environmental management team released 85 hatchlings of the critically endangered species from a nest discovered in September.
Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
-
Zebras in Amboseli National Park, Nairobi, Kenya.
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
-
-
Black-necked cranes fly over Napahai nature reserve, north-west of Shangri-La, Yunnan province, China. More than 200 of the birds were recently seen arriving at the reserve.
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
-
A one-horned rhino wanders along a street in Sauraha, near Chitwan National Park, Nepal. A local newspaper reported that rhinos were venturing outside the national park because of grassland and wetland depletion due to climate change.
Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA
-
Hoar frost coating the leaves of a barberry shrub outside Moscow, Russia, as the temperature drops below zero.
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
-
Hatchet Pond, the largest body of fresh water in the New Forest, southern England, attracts a free roaming donkey.
Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex/Shutterstock
-
-
A giant panda at Wolong National Nature Reserve, in China’s south-west Sichuan province.
Photograph: China News Service/Getty Images
