The week in wildlife

Flower buds bloom on a cherry tree as spring comes early to Washington. The annual national cherry blossom festival, which runs until 12 April, marks the 96th anniversary of the original gift of 3,000 cherry trees by the city of Tokyo to the people of Washington DC Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Hundreds of goldfish swim with a turtle in a pond at the Sleeping Buddha temple in Beijing. Goldfish are a crossbred type of carp popular in China, where they were first bred, centuries ago Photograph: Adrian Bradshaw/EPA

Magpies pluck fur from the back of a deer at Ashton Court estate in Bristol Photograph: Ben Birchall/guardian.co.uk

Two mission golden-eyed tree frogs in their tank at Chester zoo. The frogs, native to the Amazonian regions of South America, have bred for the first time since their arrival at the zoo in 2006 Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Goats search for grass in Japowbari village in Assam, northeast India, where a prolonged dry spell has made life difficult Photograph: STR/EPA

Rescuers at Hamelin bay, near Perth, hoist a long-finned pilot whale back out to sea after a mass beaching on Australia's west coast Photograph: Tony Ashby/AFP/Getty Images

One of two rare and endangered male clouded leopard cubs born at the Smithsonian's zoo conservation research centre in Front Royal, Virginia Photograph: Tracy A Woodward/AP

Snow-covered pansies in Salzburg. Winter has returned to most parts of Austria Photograph: Kerstin Joensson/AP

Orthrus, a new species of jumping spider found in a rainforest during a Conservation International expedition to Papua New Guinea's highlands Photograph: Ho/Reuters

An anemone in Seoul. Anemone is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, that grows in the north and south temperate zones Photograph: Jeon Heon-kyun/EPA

A fungus-ridden frangipani, known as a temple flower or araliya, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The mystery fungus has afflicted frangipani and fruit trees and devastated some fruit crops Photograph: MA Pushpa Kumara/EPA

Birds on a tree at a rubbish dump in Changzhi, Shanxi province, China Photograph: Stringer Shanghai/guardian.co.uk

A squirrel on the alert in a park in Minsk, Belarus Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

Scotland's oldest female osprey builds her nest at the Lowes wildlife reserve, Dunkeld, where she has returned for the 18th consecutive year Photograph: Kevin Hacker/Central Scotland News Agency

A mountain gorilla gets drunk on bamboo shoots. Wildlife photographer Andy Rouse had a close encounter with a family of mountain gorillas – and discovered them tipsy from slurping alcoholic sap from fresh bamboo shoots. The family were pictured in the Virunga mountains of Rwanda Photograph: Andy Rouse/guardian.co.uk

Thought to be the largest egg in the world, this was laid in the early 17th century by a great elephant bird in Madagascar. The species is now extinct. The egg is valued at £5,000 Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images

An anhinga prepares a catfish for dinner at the Corkscrew Swamp sanctuary near Naples, Florida Photograph: Canadian Press/Rex Features

Five-day-old female Ko Raya copies trunk manoeuvres from her mother, 22-year-old Asian elephant Pang Pha, as the pair are shown to the public at Berlin's Zoologischer Garten zoo Photograph: John Macdougall/AFP/Getty Images