The week in wildlife

A tawny coster caterpillar forages on a passiflora plant in Singapore Photograph: David Loh/Reuters

Horses kick up clouds of dust during the Rapa das Bestas (shearing of the beasts) horse festival in Sabucedo, Spain. In this 400-year-old event, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up from the mountains on the first weekend in July, sheared and tagged in different villages in the northwestern region of Galicia Photograph: Miguel Vidal/Reuters

A tiger defends his dinner at the Serengeti Park animal park in Hodenhagen, Germany. Eight tigers – seven females and this male – were transferred from a bankrupt zoo in Portugal in October 2008 to save them from starvation. The animals weighed only 120-130kg each (the average weight of a tiger is 250kg); they have now recovered Photograph: Nigel Treblin/AFP/Getty Images

A three-month-old Southern Tamandua clings to its mother's back at Tokyo's Sunshine International Aquarium. These tree-climbing anteaters have a long, prehensive tail and feed on the nests of social insects using their sticky tongues Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features

These sunbathing terrapins in Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens, Norfolk, are much better behaved than the six dozen turtles that crawled on to the tarmac at JFK airport in New York, temporarily closing the runway Photograph: Solent News/Rex Features

Unlike his American cousins, this wolf cub at the Juraparc in Mont d'Orzeires, France, will not have to worry about the recent decision to allow an open hunting season on wolves in two Rocky Mountain states Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

In the latest Obama administration rollback of Bush administration changes to the endangered species list, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to take a new look at bull trout. A federal judge in Portland on Wednesday gave them until the end of the year to propose new habitat protection for the fish in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana Photograph: Guido Rahr III/AP

An environmental campaigner dangles from a tree-house rope at the Mainshill Wood Scottish Coal site in Douglas, South Lanarkshire, after police arrived to remove the protesters' barricades. About 30 campaigners have dug in at the site, where Scottish Coal has permission to mine 1.7m tonnes of coal Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

A puffin at Skomer island loads up on fish. With numbers of sea birds plummeting across the UK, puffins are being outfitted with miniaturised digital satellite tracking devices to help scientists find out what's behind the population decline Photograph: Dave Owen/D Legakis Photography/Athena

A Saharan horned viper dares you to step on it at Basel zoo, Switzerland. These noctornual vipers are the most well known and numerous venomous snakes across the deserts of north Africa and the Middle East Photograph: Patrick Straub/EPA

A rare Hummingbird Hawk-moth sips from a flower in Collard Hill in Street, Somerset. This unusual species of moth looks and behaves like a humming bird, hovering above flowers to extracting nectar Photograph: Lynne Newton/guardian.co.uk

Filipino university students round the reefs off Anilao in Batangas, Philippines. David Attenborough has joined scientists in warning that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere may soon condemn coral reefs to extinction. The World Bank estimates barely 1% of the Philippines' 25,000sq metres of coral reefs remain pristine Photograph: Dennis M Sabangan/EPA

A leopard roars in the Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary in the foothills of the Himalayas in West Bengal, India. Jaldapara is also home to elephants, Indian bison and the rare Asiatic one-horned rhinoceros Photograph: Diptendu Dutta/AFP/Getty Images

A pigeon lifts its newly hatched chick from its nest, in a flower pot in Athens. Photograph: John Kolesidis/Reuters

Branco clings to his mother at Twycross Zoo, East Midlands. The woolly monkey was born last month, the seventh offspring of mother Djoi Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA