The week in wildlife

Ronnie Graham helps ring and record two osprey chicks hatched in the last few months at the Tweed Valley Osprey Centre, near Peebles in Scotland
Photograph: David Cheskin/PA

Week in wildlife: The mouth and gill-openings of a clearnose guitarfish (Rhinobatos armatus)

The mouth and gill-openings of a clearnose guitarfish (Rhinobatos armatus), stingray, in an aquarium of Tropicarium, a Budapest zoo
Photograph: Gyula Czimbal/EPA

Week in wildlife: A butterfly pauses on a flower at a fiel

A butterfly pauses on a flower at a field in the West Bank, near Nablus
Photograph: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images

Week in wildlife: Scientists return with more than 10 possible new species

A Hydromedusa jellyfish caught 2,500m deep in the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists have just returned from a voyage with samples of rare animals and more than 10 possible new species in a trip which they say has revolutionised their thinking about deep-sea life there
Photograph: David Shale/PA

Week in wildlife: A Lion is seen at the Aquila private game reserve

'Lion-bone wine' is latest threat to survival of Africa's big cats. This lion was photographed at the Aquila private game reserve in Touws River, South Africa
Photograph: Mohamed Messara/EPA

Week in wildlife: A Vinca flower floats in a brown, oily sludge

A vinca flower floats in brown, oily sludge in a canal behind a home just off Lake Pontchartrain near Slidell, Louisiana
Photograph: Chuck Cook/AP

Week in wildlife: A dead crab sits among oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

A dead crab sits among oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a beach in Grand Terre Island, Louisiana.
Photograph: Lee Celano/Reuters

Week in wildlife: a brown bear in the Bucegi Mountains, south of the city of Brasov, Romania

A brown bear in the Bucegi Mountains, south of the city of Brasov, Romania. Romania has Europe's biggest population of brown bears, with some 6,000 animals
Photograph: Stefan Korshak/EPA

Week in wildlife: The Monkey-Eating Eagle of The Orinoco

A nine-month old harpy eagle eyes a BBC film crew
Photograph: Tim Martin/Abu Dhabi Wildlife Films/BBC

Week in wildlife: Aerial view of a field covered with inland waters and algae

A field covered with inland waters and algae near Lepseny, 88 kms southwest of Budapest, Hungary
Photograph: Sandor H. Szabo/EPA

Week in wildlife: Rare tree flowers for first time in 90 years

Head gardener Averil Milligan inspecting the flower of a rare plant called the Goat Horn Tree as it blooms for the first time after 90 years in Rowallane Gardens, a National Trust property in Saintfield, County Down. The Goat Horn Tree was brought home from Sichuan in western China by plant collector Ernest H Wilson in 1908. For the next nine decades it grew in a shaded glade of what is now a National Trust property without ever producing its famed white flower
Photograph: Peter Muhly/PA

Week in wildlife: Rogue Baboons Become Menace In South Africa

Baboons are seen as a menace while they forage for food in an urban environments. While many are busy chasing the primates away from their homes and businesses, Baboon Matters, a non-governmental organization attempts to educate and protect baboons to ensure their long-term future on the Cape peninsula
Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Week in wildlife: Deforestation on on Borneo island, Indonesia

Receding forest cover in West Kalimantan province on Borneo island. MEPs this week signed laws to prevent the import of illegally logged timber
Photograph: Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images

Week in wildlife: A leopard at a zoo in Qingdao city

A leopard at a zoo in Qingdao city, eastern China's Shandong province. Hot weather continues to scorch many parts of China, with capital Beijing recording the highest temperature in the first ten days of July in 50 years. Temperatures of 35C have been recorded
Photograph: Wu Hong/EPA

A fledgling northern spotted owl grasps a mouse near Butte Falls, Oregon
Photograph: Jamie Lusch/AP