The week in wildlife

A leopard yawns in his enclosure at Hanover zoo
Photograph: Stefan Simonsen/AFP/Getty Images

Baboons fall out of a tree as they play at a dam on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. Baboons are accused of car-jacking Cape Town tourists in search of food and winemakers say the rampaging troops of primates are also munching their fill of premium grapes in the region's Winelands area
Photograph: Schalk van Zuydam/AP

Nuthatches eat mostly insects, nuts and seeds. They take their name from their habit of wedging food in a crevice and then pecking at it with their bills
Photograph: Mark Hancox/Swns.com

The rare ghost orchid, declared extinct in this country just last year, has been spotted once again in England
Photograph: Botanical Society of the British/PA

A toad on the way to a lake in a forest. The 'bioblitz' campaign is to create the largest record of Britain's unusually rich variety of natural life. Backers hope to create largest ever record of UK wildlife by uniting experts with public as alien species spurs sightings call
Photograph: Johannes Eisele/Reuters

A honey bee with collected pollen returns to the hive. Bees are facing 'unprecedented' pesticide exposures
Photograph: Frank Rumpenhorst/EPA

Red and pink Corallium rubrum coral on the Mediterranean seabed, which is harvested for jewellery
Photograph: G. Marola/AP

Kaiser's spotted newt Iran. According to a study by the WWF, the black and brown salamander with white spots is coveted in the pet trade and sold over the web
Photograph: Mozarfar Sharifi/AP

A five-week-old Chinchilla rabbit nibbles grass at a rabbit farm in Moosburg, Germany. The rabbits at the farm are bred to compete in rabbit shows.
Photograph: Michaela Rehle/Reuters

A great egret with a gopher in its beak in California
Photograph: Steve Shinn/Rex Features

A decree for better trade protections for rhinos has been agreed during the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) meeting, which comes amid a global poaching crisis
Photograph: Mohamed Dahir/AFP/Getty Images

A house sparrow (Passer domesticus) holds a worm in its beak, picked from marigold flowers. Numbers of the bird are declining across urban and rural habitats. Its slow but noticeable disappearance is believed to have been caused by the destruction of its habitat and lack of insect food for the young and even the increasing microwave pollution from mobile phone towers
Photograph: STR/EPA

Le Chene des Bosses is the oldest oak tree in Europe, according to the Guiness Book of Records, said to be 1,035 years old
Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features

Two grappling dung beetles. Dung beetles are a contender for the title of world's strongest insect. A team of British and Australian scientists says the insect can pull more than 1,100 times its own body weight
Photograph: Alex Wild/PA

A female osprey returns to its nest in Loch of Lowes, Scotland, after a 3,000 mile migration from west Africa. The bird, thought to be the oldest breeding female of its kind ever recorded in the UK, has returned for the 20th consecutive year to the Loch of Lowes Wildlife reserve. This osprey is estimated to be 25 years old, over three times the average lifespan of an Osprey
Photograph: Russell Cheyne/Reuters

An emperor tamarin monkey, native to the tropical rainforests of South America, lies on a branch in the new living rainforest enclosure, Rainforest Life at ZSL London Zoo
Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Features

A dead bird lies on the cracked ground as severe drought grips southern China
Photograph: Rex Features

The Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) is listed as endangered on the IUCN red list. The wolves are found only in the highlands of Ethiopia at altitudes above 3,500 m. They live in family packs and prey primarily upon small mammals, many of which are also endemic to the Afroalpine ecosystem. Fewer than 500 wolves remain in seven distinct populations
Photograph: A. L. Harrington/IUCN