The week in wildlife

Dew drops gather on a wasp as it sits on a flower during a foggy morning in Belarus Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/guardian.co.uk

A penguin cools off in the water at Frankfurt zoo, Germany Photograph: BORIS ROESSLER/EPA

Kashmiri hangul deer in the Dachigam wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Srinagar. The hangul, an endangered species of red deer found only in Kashmir, has made a rapid comeback in the past year due to conservation efforts, wildlife officials say Photograph: HO/Reuters

A Rajah Brooke's birdwing butterfly, the national butterfly of Malaysia, perches on a flower at Kuala Lumpur's butterfly park, Malaysia Photograph: Mark Baker/AP

A bird perches on a burnt tree after a wildfire ravaged the area in the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma on 3 August 2009. Fanned by strong winds, the fire on the small island in the Canaries archipelago has ravaged 2,000 hectares of pine forest and destroyed dozens of homes Photograph: Desiree Martin/AFP/Getty Images

Two heads are better than one for the thick-tailed sea snake Hydrophis pachycercos, from Vietnam. The venomous sea snake wards off predators with the distinctive colorations on its tail that make it look like a head Photograph: Arne Rasmussen/PA

A herd of wild horses grazes on a pasture atop Krug Mountain in Bosnia Photograph: Elvis Barukcic/AFP/Getty Images

An Engelmann spruce forest in Wyoming under siege from a spruce beetle epidemic. Among the green foliage of the healthy spruce are the orange-red needles of dead and dying trees, victims of a beetle infestation closely related to one that has already laid waste to millions of acres of pine forest in North America Photograph: HO/Reuters

A gorilla has a bite to eat as she holds her young baby in their enclosure at the zoo in the western German city of Muenster. The baby, named Claudia, was born a day earlier at the zoo Photograph: Philipp Guelland/AFP/Getty Images

Trees in london are suffering due to the growth in popularity of 'weapon dogs', whose owners often train them to bite by attacking trees Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian

Swifts are a victim of the wet summer weather as record numbers of the birds are taken in at the Secret World animal rescue centre in Somerset Photograph: Richard Austin

This mass of thousands of goose barnacles washed up on a south Wales beach have been described by a zoology expert as being "like something out of Doctor Who". The barnacles – long writhing stalks or pendulates, tipped with shells – are normally found in the depths of the ocean, but were washed up on Oxwich beach, Gower, clinging to a log Photograph: Western Mail/PA

Wild bison, including an eight-day-old calf (second left), walk along a ridge in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal national wildlife refuge. The bison were reintroduced to the area in 2007 and have had several calves since Photograph: Rick Wilking/REUTERS

Brazilian veterinarians and biologists hold down and feed a seal after its recent arrival to the animal hospital at the Niteroi zoo, north of Rio de Janeiro Photograph: Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images

A pink flamingo tends to the egg in its nest in the Harewood bird garden on the Harewood estate near Leeds. The first Chilean pink flamingo chick hatched on the estate on 5 August 2009 – the first in 20 years, with other eggs due to hatch in the coming days Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PA

A wild elephant crosses a railway track along Deepor Beel, a wildlife sanctuary in India. A herd of twelve wild elephants came down from the nearby hills last week in search of food and water as a drought continues in Assam state Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP