Week in wildlife: leapfrogging monkeys, a strolling tortoise and Lincolnshire seals

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  • A family of rhesus macaques play and leapfrog each other in Rajasthan, north-western India

    A family of monkeys play and leapfrog each other in Rajasthan, India.
  • A sizeable tortoise explores a market in Bangkok, Thailand

    A tortoise is seen walking around a market in Bangkok, Thailand
  • A Bengal tiger walks through grassland at the Kaziranga national park, Assam, India

    A Royal Bengal tiger walks through a grassland at the Kaziranga National Park in Kaziranga, in India’s Assam state
  • A squirrel jumps in the snow at High Park in Toronto, Canada

    A squirrel jumps around snow during winter at High Park in Toronto, Canada
  • A black-and-white snub-nosed monkey at the Baima Snow Mountain national nature reserve in south-western China. The rare primates have cute and fluffy teddy-like faces, but when they bare their teeth, their alarmingly vampiric fangs are exposed

    A snub-nosed monkey at the Baima Snow Mountain National Nature Reserve in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The black-and-white snub-nosed monkey, also known as the Yunnan golden hair monkey, is a national first-class protected animal of China
  • Big baby … Renos-Pantelis, a five-month-old Mediterranean monk seal, has his weight checked at the Attica zoological park in Athens, Greece. The orphaned seal pup was found in difficulties off the coast of Cyprus, and was taken to Greece by boat to be treated. The monk seal is the only seal species in the Mediterranean; due to hunting it is critically endangered

    Nikitas Vogiatzis, left, holds Renos-Pantelis, a 5-month-old monk seal, as Virginia Psaromanolaki, a veterinary doctor checks the weight of the animal at the Attica Zoological Park, in eastern Athens, Greece
  • Flamingos feed in the Gediz delta, in İzmir, Turkey

    Flamingos feed as they spend the spring season in the Gediz Delta, which is located on the Mediterranean-Black Sea migration route and is one of the largest deltas in the Eastern Mediterranean, in Izmir, Turkey
  • A white-tailed eagle, also known as a sea eagle, perches on an iceberg floating off Nuuk, western Greenland

    A white-tailed eagle, also known as sea eagle, is perched on an iceberg floating off Nuuk, Greenland
  • A baby monkey with its mother in an area known as Monkey Island, south of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The coastal wetlands were contaminated during the war but subsequently restored, and are now home to hundreds of monkeys – many of which, as the park-keepers repeatedly warn visitors, are practised pickpockets

    CaA baby monkey is seen beside its mother in Can Gio also known as ‘Monkey Island’, known for its lush vegetation and wild life which is inhabited by large numbers of monkeys in Ho Minh City, Vietnam
  • Veterinary staff feed an injured flying fox after Cyclone Alfred hit Byron Bay, Australia. Local wildlife centres have been inundated with animal patients since the storm hit; the one pictured here, Byron Bay wildlife hospital, took in a koala, an eastern grey kangaroo, sea turtle hatchlings and a swamp hen within a few hours of reopening its doors earlier this week

    Vet staff tend to an injured flying fox with some urgently required food after being found injured in the cyclone in Byron Bay, Australia. Australia’s east coast is experiencing severe weather as ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred moves south. Environmental charity Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital today reopened its doors to a flood of patients impacted by the destructive weather event. Working with local wildlife rescue groups, during the first few hours of re-opening native animal patients included an injured koala, an eastern grey kangaroo, a Flying fox, Sea Turtle hatchlings and a Swamp hen
  • Grey seals gather on the beach in Saltfleet, Lincolnshire, UK

    Grey seals gather on the beach in Saltfleet, UK
  • Cecilia Santos feeds a hummingbird in the home of her employer, Catia Lattouf, who has turned her Mexico City apartment into an unofficial hummingbird shelter. While recovering from cancer 14 years ago, Lattouf took in an injured bird and tended to it. Now she has dozens under her care. Once they are ready to live independently, she releases them in a wooded area outside the city

    Cecilia, a home worker and assistant to Catia Lattouf, a hummingbird rescuer, feeds hummingbirds inside the apartment that is converted into a hospital and shelter in Mexico City, Mexico
  • European common brown frogs among frogspawn on the warmest day of the year so far in London, UK

    European common brown frogs mating among frog spawn on the warmest day of the year so far in London, UK
  • A rescued two-month-old male wild Sumatran elephant, separated from his mother in a palm oil plantation, sleeps at the Minas elephant training centre in Riau, Indonesia

    A rescued two-month-old male wild Sumatran elephant, separated from its mother in a palm oil plantation, sleeps at the Minas Elephant Training Centre in Riau, Indonesia
  • A burrowing owl looks disgruntled in Cape Coral, Florida, US. This is one of the few owl species that nest underground; they often take over disused burrows made by badgers, foxes or ground squirrels

    A burrowing owl perches in Cape Coral Florida, US. Burrowing Owls are one of the few owl species that nest underground and Cape Coral hosts the largest population of Florida’s threatened burrowing owls
  • Sea lions recover at Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro, California, US. An algal bloom in the Pacific is poisoning wildlife, with the algae producing a neurological toxin called domoic acid that affects the sea lions’ brains and hearts, causing seizures. Seals and dolphins are also affected

    Sea lions suffering from neurological conditions caused by a toxic bloom off the Malibu coast, are treated at the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro, California, US. The algae bloom off the California coast has been on the rise in recent years, producing a neurological toxin called domoic acid
  • A duck rests on one foot at the Volksgarten (people’s garden) in Vienna, Austria

    A duck rests on one foot at Volksgarten (People’s Garden) in Vienna, Austria
  • A wild Sumatran tiger is evacuated from Agam district, Indonesia, to prevent conflict with humans. Sumatran tigers are listed as critically endangered, with less than 400 left in the wild

    A wild Sumatran tiger is evacuated from Agam District, Indonesia to prevent conflict with humans, Sumatran tigers are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature with less than 400 left in the wild
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