Science

The week in wildlife – in pictures

Mike Letterman

Jun 17, 2022, 10:03 AM
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An aerial view of water buffaloes in Karaoğlan neighbourhood in Mustafakemalpasa district.
The photo was taken by Anadolu Agency.
A northern alligator lizard strikes a defensive pose as it crosses the yellow line of a country road in rural southwestern Oregon. The diet of the typical northern alligator lizard includes crickets, slugs, beetles, spiders, and moths, but it will also take larger prey, such as small lizards, and will even eat small mice and birds if given the opportunity.
The picture was taken by Robin Loznak/Zuma Press Wire.
A bird locally known is Prenjak feeds her chicks on a tree branch in central Java province.
The picture is from the REX/Shutterstock
A great hamster of Alsace is being freed as part of a reintroduction program in the east of the country. Sixty great hamsters of Alsace are reintroduced on plots of cereal crops, located near the new highway allowing to bypass Strasbourg.
The picture was taken by Patrick Hertzog/AFP.
Two damselflies fly in North Yorkshire.
The picture was taken by Danny Lawson of the PA.
A grey heron stands in the Vltava River with a fish in its beak during a sunny day.
There is a picture of Slvek Rta.
Pokląskwa (Saxicola rubetra) during spring is seen insect hunting among grasses.
The picture was taken by Darek Delmanowicz of the EPA.
A Cape fur seal swims in the sea near Simon’s Town.
The picture was taken by REX/Shutterstock.
A Lehmann’s poison frog (Oophaga lehmanni) is released in the Colombian Pacific, in Valle del Cauca department. The poisonous frog has paid for the sin of its beauty with its near-extinction due to illegal wildlife trafficking, an ecological crime from which it is beginning to recover. This is because for the first time its reproduction has been achieved and almost 30 specimens were released to repopulate its habitat.
The picture is from the EPA.
A hoverfly inside a poppy in a field in Cheshire.
The picture was taken by Peter Byrne/ PA.
Elephants at the Amboseli national park.
The picture was taken by REX/Shutterstock.
A rare black woodpecker, living in a ventilation window of the central Mosque’s minaret, is seen in Rize province.
The photo was taken by Anadolu Agency.
A dolphin flicks up a small flat fish at the mouth of the River Tyne on the north-east coast.
The picture was taken by Owen Humphreys.
A bumblebee flies to a wild poppy blossom growing beside a field.
The photograph was taken by Michael Buholzer.
People look at the walrus named Sten outside the village in the Skälderviken area in the south west of the country. The wild walrus has been spotted along the Swedish west coast during the last weeks swimming south.
The images are from the Swedish news agency and the French news agency.