The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
Week in wildlife in pictures: a strolling pelican, a venomous newt and a psychedelic swamphen
Week in wildlife in pictures: roving parrots, rabid seals and a prickly pest | Environment
A hedgehog curls up in a garden in Rolleston on the outskirts of Christchurch, New Zealand. As hedgehogs have no natural predators in New Zealand, they are considered a pest because they kill a variety of insects, lizards, and ground-nesting chicks, reducing biodiversity. In Europe, however, hedgehogs are now listed as “near threatened” after a decline in numbers of at least 30% over the past decade across much of their range
Week in wildlife in pictures: jaguar cuddles, a supermarket cockatoo and a seal in Canary Wharf | Environment
A female jaguar named Patricia with her cub, Makala, take a dip at Encontro das Águas State Park, Mato Grosso, Brazil. The tropical wetland there, called the pantanal, is home to one of the world’s largest jaguar populations, although it is threatened by wildfires
Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters
Week in wildlife in pictures: happy elephants, a tiny koala and baboons taking liberties | Environment
An orphaned koala joey named Ajooni being fed by wildlife caregiver Emma Meadows in Sydney, Australia. There are between 95,000 and 524,000 koalas left in the country, possibly down from millions before European settlement. Expanding cities, land clearance and the spread of chlamydia are all devastating the populations of one of the country’s most iconic animals
Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images
Week in wildlife in pictures: a diva beaver, 100 hungry raccoons and the fattest bear | Environment
Invasion of the trash bandits … just a few of the 100 raccoons that surrounded a woman’s home in Poulsbo, Washington, US. She had been feeding a small number, but “somehow, the word got out in raccoon land and they all showed up to her house expecting a meal,” a spokesperson for the sherriff’s office said. They sent deputies to help the woman, who was frightened to leave her home, since raccoons can be aggressive
Week in wildlife : a rare blue frog, a cheeky heron and climbing bears
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
Week in wildlife – in pictures: a comedy seal, a cricket-loving owl and hairy pigs on Exmoor
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
Week in wildlife â in pictures: puffins on the rebound, a sticky turtle and a joey named Sprout | Environment
This baby swamp wallaby, nicknamed Sprout, was found by the roadside in Byron Bay, Australia. Her mother was killed in a car accident, but she survived by being thrown out of the pouch and on to the road
Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images
Week in wildlife – in pictures: amorous frogs, battling stallions and an overaffectionate jaguar
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
Week in wildlife – in pictures: a giant hamster, a mustachoied deer and a zebra on the run
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world