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Week in wildlife: a flying rodent, a duty-free possum and an emerald viper
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
TL;DR
- A young Iberian lynx was photographed playing with a rodent in Ciudad Real, Spain.
- A wild brushtail possum was found in a toy store at an Australian airport.
- An arctic fox was spotted blending into the snow in Cambridge Bay, Canada.
- A ladybird was photographed on a weed near Elkton, Oregon, US.
- A hare was seen hiding in a field near Frankfurt, Germany.
- A mallard hen was nesting on eggs in a rowing punt on the Thames in Oxfordshire, UK.
- A new species of pit viper was discovered in a cave in Battambang, Cambodia.
- A striped hyena in Turkmenistan is facing increasing threats and global decline.
- A second set of mountain gorilla twins was born in Virunga national park, DR Congo.
- Southern white rhinoceroses are being reintroduced to Kidepo national park, Uganda.
- Kangaroos were observed watching a golf tournament in Gold Coast, Australia.
- A yacare caiman was seen in the Pantanal, Brazil.
- Great egret chicks were waiting for food in Florida, US.
- A family of Egyptian geese grazed at a lake in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
- A honey bee hovered near Russian sage at the Hong Kong flower show.
- A black-collared hawk caught a fish in the Pantanal, Brazil.
- A baby American alligator basked in the sun in Everglades national park, Florida, US.
- Spoonbill chicks begged their parent for food in Christmas, Florida, US.
- A harbor seal was seen snoozing in Pacific Grove, California, US.
- Horses crossed the dry bed of the Aconcagua river in Ocoa, Chile, due to a mega-drought.
- A damselfly rested on a leaf in Assam, India.