Week in wildlife: a flying vole, a Wimbledon wagtail and some lovebugs

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  • Grey foxes in the Sumidero Canyon nature reserve, Chiapas, southern Mexico. Slightly smaller than the red foxes common to the UK, the grey fox has shorter limbs and pupils that are oval rather than slit-shaped

    Two grey foxes sit in long grass
  • A vet bottle-feeds an orphaned brown bear cub at the Ovakorusu Celal Acar wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centre in Bursa, Turkey

    A brown bear cub holds on to a bottle as it is fed by a man
  • Dinner for two … a rose chafer beetle shares a dahlia flower with a bee on a sunny afternoon at Greys Court in Henley-on-Thames, UK

    A beetle with. greenish iridescent body on a pink flower with a bee
  • On your marks, get set … ducks line up by the lake at the Luiz de Queiroz college of agriculture, University of São Paulo, Brazil

    At least 10 duck next stand on the edge of a pond
  • Volunteers pour water over a tortoise rescued from a burned forest area in Buca, İzmir, Turkey. Almost 100 volunteers gathered to search for surviving animals, treat injuries and relocate them to safe habitats after recent wildfires

    A person in gloves hold a tortoise while another person pours water from a large bottle on to the animal
  • A snowy egret at Pacific Grove, California, US

    A snowy white egret gets ready for take off from the shoreline
  • A harlequin flying frog in Kubah national park, Sarawak, Borneo. The largest of these little amphibians are only 7cm long; their webbed feet help them to move around in the forest canopy

    A small orange and pink frog on a black background
  • For the first time in 11 years, the Eurasian otter has been seen in Malaysia, here captured on a camera trap in Tangkulap forest reserve, Borneo. The species was thought to be extinct in Malaysia, and this reappearance is a hopeful sign for a healthy aquatic ecosystem in the area

    A black and white image shows an otter among leaves next to water
  • A deer and her baby ‘hide’ in a cornfield in Neu-Anspach near Frankfurt, Germany

    The head of an adult deer an the ears of a baby deer can be seen among heads of corn
  • A family of elephants play during their daily bath in a river at the Pinnawala elephant orphanage, Sri Lanka

    A larger elephant throws their trunk back as two smaller elephants stand behind while in shallow water
  • Where the buffalo roam … a bison stops traffic in Yellowstone national park, Wyoming, US

    A person's reflection can be seen in the side-mirror of a pickup truck as they take a photo oft a bison on a road
  • A female beaver and her kit at the National Trust’s Holnicote estate in Exmoor, UK. Five years ago the Trust began releasing beavers into two enclosures on the estate and working to restore the River Aller to how it would have been before human interference, with multiple channels and pools. There are more than a dozen beavers there now

    A female beaver sit next to her kit
  • A wagtail catches up with the day’s tennis action on the court at the Wimbledon Championships, London, UK

    A small bird runs past a yellow tennis ball on a grass court
  • A female Sri Lankan sloth bear wanders through Yala national park, Sri Lanka

    A sloth bear walks on top a rock, with bushes and blue sky in the background
  • A seagull flies with is catch over the Humber River in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    A seagull in flight with a fish in their beak
  • A white butterfly feeds on vibrant yellow wildflowers in Heyworth, Illinois, US

    A white butterfly on small yellow flowers
  • Storks gather to find a resting place in the trees around Bursa, Turkey. To young to start a nest and a family, they are known as ‘idle’ storks and they spend most of the summer months looking for food

    A stork flaps it wings as it and three other sits in the canopy of a tree
  • An American dog tick, also known as a wood tick, climbs through tall weeds while searching for a host in Oregon, US. This species is a carrier of diseases such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia, though transmission is relatively rare in the Pacific north-west

    A closeup of a reddish tick among blades of grass
  • A wild goat wanders on the rocks in Tunceli, Turkey

    A wild goat  appears to stare towards the camera in front of a rock face an bushes
  • Lovebugs crawl over a wooden post on the peak of Gyeyangsan mountain in Incheon, west of Seoul. Despite their name, the insects are considered to be pests, and their population has exploded in South Korea owing to a warming climate. Municipal officials in Seoul recorded 9,296 complaints about lovebugs last year

    Dark winged insects with orange thoraxes cover a piece of wood
  • Not ready for takeoff … a vole looks surprised as it is carried away in the talons of a white-tailed kite in Mountain View, California, US

    A large white bird flies through the air while carrying a vole
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