The week in wildlife – in pictures

Brown bear cubs eat out of bins in a residential area near the forest in the Sarikamis district of Kars, Turkey

A false oil, or thick-legged, flower beetle rests on wild rose petals in the afternoon sunshine in Dunsden, UK

The Saltee Islands off the coast of Co Wexford, Ireland, are home to puffins, gannets, guillemots, razorbills, cormorants, great black-backed gulls, kittiwakes and manx shearwaters

Pregnant Tibetan antelopes cross the Qinghai-Tibet highway in Hoh Xil, China. A growing number of these antelopes are migrating to the heart of the nature reserve in north-west China to give birth, according to the reserve’s management bureau

A stork flies over a meadow in the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany

A two-and-a-half-week-old white moose named Karolcia is seen at the Lesne Pogotowie wild animal rehabilitation centre in Mikolow, Poland. The moose was rejected by her mother, possibly because of her unusual colour

Dragonflies (Calopteryx virgo) fly over a water lily in La Gacilly, western France

Tawny owl chicks in Kielder forest, UK. Wildlife experts have reported a mini-baby boom among tawny owls. An increase in the number of voles, their most important prey, has led around 90 tawny pairs to have chicks, compared with just 25 in the area last year

Reduviid nymphs, found in forests in south-east Asia, camouflage themselves from predators by attaching debris or remains of dead prey insects to their backs

A frog in the rewetted area of the Sernitzmoor peatland. The Succow Stiftung, a German foundation devoted to international peatland restoration, has been rewetting the Sernitzmoor since 2014 as part of a project called ‘toMOORow’, which seeks to both reap the climate crisis benefits from peatland rewetting as well as provide commercial opportunities to local farmers and businesses

Blue and yellow macaws have made themselves at home in Caracas, where bird enthusiasts feed the parrots, protect their nests and help them adapt to the urban environment. People’s contact with these birds has increased since they were introduced to the Venezuelan capital 30 years ago. Today, thousands of people receive them at their windows or on their terraces

Monkeys cool off in a fountain on top of the Indian presidential palace building in New Delhi, India

Ermine or hawk moth caterpillar webs cover the hedgerows in South Stoke, Oxfordshire. These huge silk sheets protect the moth caterpillars as they grow

Members of the Colombian army check on a rescued harpy eagle - a critically endangered species. According to the vets who treated this bird, it had what appeared to be a firearm wound in a wing

An Aleppo goat breastfeeds her kid, which was found exhausted by soldiers on the border in Hakkari and taken to Van Yuzuncu Yil University wild animals protection and rehabilitation centre in Van, Turkey

Flamingos are seen in the Kurba basin, Tunisia, an area under threat due to environmental waste and pollution. The area is home to many bird species such as pink flamingos, hawks and ducks

A Nemoptera bipennis perches on a Spanish lavender flowering plant in the Guadarrama mountain range in Madrid, Spain

An eight-year-old male African lion rests on the plains of Kafue national park, Zambia