The week in wildlife

Dorset, England: A male spiny seahorse, off the coast of Purbeck. The Seahorse Trust has called for action to protect seahorses after finding the UK's largest known colony off the south coast Photograph: Steve Trewhella/The Seahorse Trust/PA

Medellin, Colombia: An African grey-crowned crane (Balearia regulorum) – in danger of extinction – at the Santa Fe zoo Photograph: Paul Arboleda/AFP

Suffolk, England: A cow in the river Waveney at dawn Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian

Manila, Philippines: Dead fish in the polluted waters of Manila bay. Fish deaths have been reported in different regions of the Philippines in the past, attributed by experts mainly to a toxic form of algae or a sudden drop in the supply of oxygen in the water Photograph: Aaron Favila/AP

Cuernavaca, Mexico: The flower amor seco, one of a thousand plants which makes up the biggest garden of medicinal plants in Latin America, the Ethnobotanical Garden and Museum of Traditional Medicine and Herbarium Photograph: Mauricio Marat/EPA

Singapore: A 17-day-old Malay fish owl chick at a nursery at the Jurong bird park Photograph: Tim Chong/Reuters

Basel, Switzerland: Three young meerkats (Suricata Suricatta) in their enclosure at the zoo Photograph: Patrick Straub/Keystone/AP

Reitwein, Germany: Starlings on a wire at dawn Photograph: Patrick Pleul/Reuters

New York, US: A Chacoan horned frog at the Bronx zoo Photograph: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS/AP

Oulad Bourzik, Morocco: A vet vaccinates a goat at a farm. The Moroccan government has ordered the vaccination of all livestock after the outbreak of a deadly viral disease, ahead of the Eid festival when millions of animals are sacrificed Photograph: Abdelhak Senna/AFP

Beaufort sea coast, Arctic: A polar bear and two cubs. The governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, has opposed the listing of the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because that status could hamper expanded drilling in remote regions Photograph: US Fish and WIldlife Service/Reuters

Bad Hindelang, Germany: Bavarian farmers, followed by their cows. At the end of the summer season, farmers move their herds down from the Alps to winter pastures in the valleys Photograph: Michaela Rehle/Reuters

Clamwilliam, South Africa: Visitors walk past fields of seasonal wild flowers Photograph: Mike Hutchings/Reuters

Fuzhou, China: Red panda cubs at Fuzhou Panda World. Of the 10 red panda (Ailurus fulgens) cubs bred at the research centre this year, including two sets of triplets and one pair of twins. The eight surviving cubs were shown to the public for the first time this week Photograph: Zheng Shuai/ChinaFotoPress/Getty

Briesen, Germany: A European garden spider (Araneus diadematus) on its web Photograph: Patrick Pleul/EPA

Kachubari, India: Forest officials on elephants search for signals from the radio collar attached to an endangered Indian one-horned rhinoceros. The rhinoceros strayed from the Manas national park on September 1 and forest officials have been trying unsuccessfully to herd it back to the park Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP

Pinar del Rio, Havana, Cuba: A dog stands on the roof of a house as hurricane Ike floods the streets below Photograph: Claudia Daut/Reuters

Bowland Fells, England: Rare one month old hen harrier chicks, which have been fitted with remote satellite receivers. Hen harrier numbers are showing no signs of recovery in England, conservationists warned this week Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA