The week in wildlife

UK: A southern damselfly. A nationwide survey of dragonflies is being launched this week amid concerns that a third of British species are under threat Photograph: Phil Watts/British Dragonfly Society/PA

Rapperswil, Switzerland: A young ring-tailed lemur jumps in its enclosure at the city zoo Photograph: Eddy Risch/Keystone/AP

Managua, Nicaragua: The eye of a great green macaw at the national zoo after being rescued by authorities from street vendors Photograph: Esteban Felix/AP

Ottawa, US: A ladybird crawls along the underside of a dogwood blossom Photograph: Elliot J Sutherland/Ottawa Herald/AP

Warsaw, Poland: A peacock in Lazienki park Photograph: Janek Skarzynski/AFP

Stoneham, US: River otters sun themselves after a swim Photograph: Steven Senne/AP

San Diego, US: Three of the 13 Australian red-bellied short-necked turtles hatched this past week at the zoo Photograph: Ken Bohn/Zoological Society of San Diego/AP

Suphan Buri, Thailand: Birds fly over drained rice at a rice mill factory Photograph: Chumsak Kanoknan/Getty

San Diego, US: Silver, a male Masai giraffe at the San Diego zoo, takes a ride as he and five other giraffes are moved to a new habitat Photograph: Ken Bohn/AFP

Temple, US: A great blue heron makes a meal out of a bass Photograph: Scott Gaulin/Temple Daily Telegram/AP

Managua, Nicaragua: A one-month-old ferruginous pygmy owl Photograph: Esteban Felix/AP

Shishou, China: Pere David's deer pasture at the Yangtze river swan islet. The nature reserve, a wetland covering an area of about 68.66 sq km, contains over 1,000 Pere David's deer, the largest wild population of the animal in the world Photograph: China Photos/Getty

Baltimore, US: Visitors to the national aquarium pass a display of fish eyes Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP

Jamshedpur, India: A crow drinks from a leaking standpipe at Tata zoological park Photograph: AFP

Costa Rica: A parrot flying over the Osa peninsula Photograph: Jeffrey Arguedas/EPA

Guwahati, India: A wild elephant smells the presence of villagers as they approach to chase the elephants away from the paddy fields Photograph: EPA

Dortmund, Germany: A Hungarian puli sheepdog jumps over a hurdle during a preview for a pedigree dog show Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP