The week in wildlife

Bangkok, Thailand: A black-shouldered kite that was seized by environmental crime police along with other rare species. These birds of prey are found in Australia and southern Africa and are listed as a threatened species
Photograph: Sakchai Lalit/AP

Amritsar, India; Fish swim in waters outside the Golden Temple. The city's name means 'the pool of the nectar of immortality' in Punjabi
Photograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images

Melbourne, Australia: A two-day-old elephant shelters below the body of mother Dokkoon at Melbourne zoo
Photograph: Melbourne Zoo/EPA

Cape Town, South Africa: An Acraea butterfly sucks nectar from a wild mint flower
Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA

Lima, Peru: A tiger that belongs to the zoo inside its cage. Six lions in very poor condition were confiscated from a circus in a northern city in Peru and were put under the safekeeping of the zoo in Lima
Photograph: Pilar Olivares/Reuters

Bucharest, Romania: A mallard duck cleans its feathers on a pond
Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty

Shanghai, China: A panda chews on a bamboo shoot in an enclosure at the Shanghai zoo. Ten giant pandas went on show at the zoo for the first time this week. The six females and four males were born in the Sichuan province shortly after the area was hit by an earthquake in 2008 and were moved to their new home last month. The pandas will spend a year in Shanghai as part of the city's 2010 World Expo, which runs for six months from May
Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters

Gurgaon, India: A drongo bird on a wire against a background of fog-enveloped trees. Severe cold conditions continue in most parts of northern India
Photograph: Gurinder Osan/AP

Nanyuki, Kenya: A family of elephants on the move in search of water
Photograph: Noor Khamis/Reuters

Singapore: A 32-day-old barn owl in the Jurong bird park. The barn owl is the most widely distributed species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds. There are over 30 subspecies of barn owl, and with a few exceptions, they are distributed worldwide
Photograph: How Hwee Young/EPA

Sapporo, Japan: Japanese macaques gather on a tyre for warmth at Sapporo Maruyama zoo
Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters

New Delhi, India: A troop of monkeys crosses a road on a foggy morning
Photograph: Manan VatsyayanA/AFP/Getty Images