The week in wildlife

A flamingo takes cover at Leipzig zoo, Germany Photograph: Jan Woitas/EPA

Tigers in Frankfurt zoo take it easy Photograph: Frank May/EPA

Japanese macaques, nicknamed the snow monkeys, enjoy the warmth of a hot spring in Yamanouchi, Japan Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA

A giant panda at home in a tree in China. Britain's prime minister Gordon Brown has backed plans to bring a pair to a UK zoo Photograph: Robyn Rowles/PA

A bee buzzes in to a hedge cactus flower in Cottesloe, Australia Photograph: Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images

Sea turtle hatchlings at Ujung Genteng turtle conservation centre, West Java. The Indonesian government has moved against the illegal trade in turtles and tortoises Photograph: Adi Weda/EPA

A monkey sits on a tree in Kabul zoo, Afghanistan. The zoo has a collection of about 500 animals, but decades of conflict have left the zoo in shambles Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images

A baby hippo swims beside its mother at Berlin zoo Photograph: Michael Kappeler/AFP/Getty Images

Pigeons gather on a city steam grate in Toronto, Canada Photograph: Nathan Denette/AP

A green pit viper in Laos. Over 1,000 new species, including the world's largest huntsman spider and the Laotian rock rat, have been discovered in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia in the last decade Photograph: World Wildlife Fund Hand Out/EPA

Taronga zoo's new wedge-tailed eagle, Sydney, Australia Photograph: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

An extremely rare green-blooded, turquoise-boned Samkos bush frog discovered in Cambodia Photograph: Fauna & Flora International

Siberian huskies rest on a husky farm in Rovaniemi, Finland Photograph: Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images

Birds perch on snow-covered razor wire at COP (Combat Out Position) Ponchardier, Sayed Abad, Afghanistan Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images

Gorillas at Ramat Gan safari park, Tel Aviv, Israel Photograph: Pavel Wolberg/EPA