photos of the week Guardian
1 A stork perched high in a nest above horses in a meadow in Wehrheim, Germany
Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
2 Elephants bathe in a river at the Pinnawala elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka. The orphanage is the first of its kind in the world and home to 69 elephants
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
3 Black rhinos roam the wild in the Save Valley Conservancy, Zimbabwe
Photograph: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP
4 An amorous pair of Entiminae (broad-nosed weevils) mating in Tehatta, West Bengal, India
Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images
5 School of fish swim around people in Sardinia, Italy
Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images
6 Anemones, which have poisonous tentacles and are semi-sessile (partially attached to the sea floor), exhibit vibrant yellow and green colours due to the zooxanthellae algae they host
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
7 Thousands of birds flock to the Hongze Lake wetland in Suqian, China
Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images
8 A moorish hedgehog rescued from a war-torn city in eastern Ukraine shelters in a family home turned animal shelter
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
9 Vipera ammodytes, the nose-horned venomous viper snake, spotted in northern Greece trapped in an abandoned house.
Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images
10 A juvenile fin whale that died on shore in Torrance, California
Photograph: David Swanson/AFP/Getty Images
11 Animal rescue personnel try to untangle a buck’s antlers from a batting cage in Mt Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Photograph: Jim Mendenhall/AP
12 A water snake swims in a pond near the 13th hole green during round 4 of the women’s golf individual stroke play of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Le Golf National in Guyancourt
Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
13 Ocypode macrocera, the red ghost crab, on Boca grande beach in Tumaco, Colombia
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
14 A fallow deer (dama dama) in Antalya, Turkey
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15 Bird ringers place a young white-tailed eagle in a bag to weigh and ring it in a tree-top nest near Killiechronan, Scotland
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
16 Florida Wildlife Commission coordinators observe a trainee during a snake-capture safety training session
Photograph: Stephany Matat/AP
17 Humpback whales spotted during a scientific expedition off the coast of Niteroi, Brazil
Photograph: Florian Plaucheur/AFP/Getty Images
18 Horses graze at the Equine Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre, the pioneer centre in using prosthesis for horses that have had legs amputated, in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
19 A rhino beetle (Oryctes nasicornis) spotted in Van, Turkey
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20 A Rutland osprey swooping at speeds of up to 80mph to grab a fish. Its next challenge is to get the prey to its nest without losing grip of its slippery catch
Photograph: mediadrumimages/Marc Freebrey