The week in wildlife

Warsaw, Poland: Storks sleep in a nest during a full moon. Storks leave Poland for Africa at the end of August Photograph: Janek Skarzynski/AFP

Norddeich, Germany: Seal pup Eddy peeks out of a basket at the port before being transported to the sands of the island of Juist. Eddy was raised in a station for abandoned seals and will be released into the North Sea Photograph: Focke Strangmann/AP

Hamm, Germany: A Siberian tiger 'Shakyra' lies next to one of her five two-day old cubs in her enclosure Photograph: Ina Fassbender/Reuters

Münster, Germany: Gana the gorilla carries her dead baby at the zoo. The baby died on August 16 but can only be recovered from the enclosure once the mother leaves the corpse behind Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP

Linosa, Sicily: A volunteer from the Marine Turtle Rescue Centre holds a newly hatched sea turtle. About 60 newly hatched sea turtles lost their way during their ritual passage to the sea and marched into an Italian restaurant instead Photograph: Paulo Siqueira/Reuters

Jerusalem, Isreal: Arava, a disabled tortoise crawls inside an enclosure with a custom skateboard attached to her shell that helps her move around. Officials at the zoo say the 10-year-old spurred tortoise has begun mating since being fitted with a custom skateboard to overcome paralysis of her hind legs Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP

Maasai Mara National park, Kenya: A herd of wildebeest gather at the top of a hill at sunset after they succesfully crossed the Mara river during the annual migration Photograph: Roberto Schimdt/AFP

Tokyo, Japan: A bee flies around a field of red and yellow cosmos in Hamarikyu gardens Photograph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP

An Italian snail papillifera papillaris. A colony of the snails has been discovered in the UK for the first time - more than a century after it arrived on a stone balustrade imported from Rome. The National Trust said the small snail was found at the Cliveden estate, Buckinghamshire Photograph: National Trust/PA

Edinburgh, UK: King penguin Nils Olav walks past soldiers from the Norwegian king's guard after he was given a knighthood. He has been an honorary member and mascot of the king's guard since the 1980s Photograph: David Moir/Reuters

Hanover, Germany: A hippopotamus waits to be fed at the zoo. The zoo held an animal Olympic games to coincide with the Olympic games in Beijing Photograph: Nigel Treblin/AFP

Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand: A butterfly rests on a flower Photograph: Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters

Hygiene, US: A cow named Apple confronts a bear climbing over a fence into her pasture. Officers with the Colorado Division of Wildlife were called to the scene, but by the time they arrived the bear was gone Photograph: Penny Cox/Longmont Times-Call/AP

Maasai Mara national park, Kenya: A herd of elephants cross the plains Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP