The week in wildlife

A moulting southern elephant seal scratches its head on Australia's remote World Heritage-listed territory of Heard Island in the Southern Ocean Photograph: Narelle Campbell/AFP/Getty Images

A dahlia in full bloom, New Delhi, India Photograph: Harish Tyagi/EPA

The rare ladybird spider has come back from the point of extinction in Britain, naturalists claim. There were only 56 of the spiders in Britain, living on heathland in Dorset, when a breeding and reintroduction programme began more than a decade ago. Now, the number of ladybird spiders in the wild is now thought to be more than 1,000 Photograph: Natural England

Ducks walk across a main road on a rainy day in Sichuan, China Photograph: David Gray/Reuters

A blue tit feeds on a piece of pork fat put out in a park in Minsk, Belarus Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP

Perth, Australia: A Kangaroo is seen on the course during day one of the 2009 Johnnie Walker classic held at the Vines Resort and Country Club Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images

Stray dogs walk on the ice covering parts of the Yenisei river during temperatures of -30C near the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

Gazelles on a mountain side of the West Bank city of Hebron Photograph: Abed al Hafiz Hashlamoun/EPA

A golden eagle tries to catch a hare during a Kazakh hunters' festival in Ak Bulak Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters