The week in wildlife – in pictures

A water rail at Northumberland Park in North Tyneside

An adder,
Vipera berus, just out of hibernation basking in the morning sunshine

A glossy ibis,
Plegadis falcinellus, foraging in the Myakka River in Sarasota, Florida

A honeybee collects pollen from a pear tree near Nagykanizsa, south-west Hungary

Seaweed in
clear waters in a Venice canal as a result of the stoppage of motorboat traffic during the coronavirus lockdown

A wild tapir calf photographed by a camera trap in the Guapiacu ecological reserve. Hopes for a recovery of
Brazil’s most endangered ecosystem have been given a boost by the first birth of a wild tapir in Rio de Janeiro’s Atlantic Forest for more than a century

Caretaker Ephraim Ngiribwa tends to
baby orphaned chimpanzees at Lwiro Primate Centre in Lwiro, South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Chimpanzees in DR Congo are threatened by deforestation and poaching

A leopard in Gir national park, also known as Sasan Gir, in Gujarat, India

A Thai official sprays disinfectant to curb the spread of coronavirus at an animal market in Bangkok. Some researchers think it is humanity’s destruction of biodiversity that creates the
conditions for new diseases such as Covid-19

Mohamed Sheikh Yakub, a patient with mental illness, sits inside a treatment room with a hyena believed to exorcise evil spirits, in the Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia

A kakapo , one of the patients at at Auckland Zoo’s New Zealand centre for conservation medicine. By the end of summer in February, thanks to
intensive intervention, the population of 147 of the endangered parrots had produced more than 80 chicks – a record

A Mexican grey wolf after it was captured near Reserve, New Mexico, during an annual survey of the endangered species. The US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the survey results, saying there are at least 163 wolves in the wild in New Mexico and Arizona – up 25% on last year

Purbeck Heath in Dorset, where seven landowners have joined forces to created what is being billed as the UK’s first
‘super national nature reserve’

A Cuban white-fanned anole,
Anolis homolechis, spreading its dewlap in courtship or territorially in Vinales, western Cuba

A heron at Zoom Torino zoo in Cumiana, near Turin, during the country’s coronavirus lockdown

Red-breasted mergansers against a predawn New York skyline

A male plumbeous water redstart by a lake in Dharamsala, India

Fallow deer herd relax in spring sunshine at Richmond Park, south-west London

A snowshoe hare in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah, US