This week’s collection of wildlife photographs from around the world showcases a lazy sea lion, baby ospreys, and a rare birth of four critically endangered lemurs.
Baby Boom in Devon
Shaldon Wildlife Trust in Devon, UK, is celebrating the birth of four critically endangered red-ruffed lemurs. The charity described the quadruplets as a significant milestone for a European breeding programme. While twins are common for this species, quadruplets are incredibly rare, occurring in fewer than 6% of births worldwide.
Scottish Highlands Ospreys
A still from a livestream of the nest of two adult ospreys, Louis and Dorcha, in Loch Arkaig pine forest in the Scottish Highlands shows the arrival of a second chick. The resident male, Louis, has been a massive draw for webcam viewers, returning to the ancient Caledonian pine forest every spring to breed and successfully raising numerous chicks.
Sea Lion in Seattle
A sea lion sleeps on a dock at Shilshole Bay Marina in Seattle, Washington, US. Male sea lions typically gather to feed on abundant fish in the area as they bulk up during migration for the breeding season in California and Mexico.
Other Highlights
- Purple haze: A roe deer in a meadow of flowering consolida near Gyöngyöspata, northern Hungary.
- Monkey business: A wild rhesus macaque mother cradles her infant in National Forest Park in Hunan province, China.
- All a flutter: A silver-washed fritillary butterfly lands on a blooming lacy phacelia in a field near Hajdúszoboszló, Hungary.
- Make it snappy: Crocodiles in Bazoulé, the ‘crocodile village’, in Burkina Faso, regarded as sacred due to a 500-year-old legend.
- A frog’s life: A frog in Yayla Lake, a protected site in Denizli province, Turkey, serving as a biodiversity sanctuary.
- Gone fishing: Gulls hunt pearl mullet during the annual migration season in Van, Turkey.
- Family travel: Elephants cross a road at Kruger National Park, South Africa.
- Flower power: A bumblebee flies next to poppy flowers in a field in Frankfurt, Germany.
- Just hanging about: A baya weaver constructs a nest from strips of grass and plant fibres in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- In the mane: One of the last wild horse herds on the European continent is driven into an arena near Dülmen, Germany, to catch young stallions.
- A Shropshire lad: Wren chicks chirping and scrambling for food as their mother returns to a nest in Shropshire, England.
- A bug’s life: A stinkbug climbs on a leaf in Sangju, South Korea.
- Acting squirrely: An Anatolian ground squirrel forages in grassy fields in Niğde, Turkey.
- In full bloom: Swamp deer move through a wetland covered with blooming water hyacinths at Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India.
- Clowning around: A clownfish swims among anemones in the Red Sea, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
- In the pink: Flamingos in the Vjosë-Nartë protected area near Vlorë, Albania.
