The week in wildlife

Tokyo, Japan: Clione Limacina or 'sea angels' swim in the water of a tank at the Shinagawa aquarium Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA

Blackley, UK: Fox cubs play with their mother in a garden Photograph: Manchester Evening News

Alkmaar, Netherlands: Flower bulb growers at work. The tulip season begins in March and lasts until August Photograph: Koen Van Weel/EPA

Chaiten, Chile: A dead cow lies covered by ashes from the Chaiten volcano Photograph: Alfredo Miranda/La Tercera/AP

Sakai, Japan: A monkey at Ohama park. A local report has said that about 30% of the some 50 Macaca mulatta monkeys appear to be overweight, due to overfeeding by visitors Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP

San Salvador, El Salvador: A chio, a native bird of El Salvador, rests on a car aerial in a parking lot Photograph: Jose Cabezas/AFP

Colombo, Sri Lanka: Butterflies search for nectar Photograph: M A Pushpa Kumara/EPA

Melbourne, Australia: A hippopotamus calf nicknamed Muddy stands close to her mother Primrose at the Werribee Open Range zoo Photograph: William West/AFP

Northumerland, UK: A puffin on the Farne Islands. The National Trust will soon be starting the five yearly count of the puffins on the island to assess the state of the population - at the last count in 2003 there were over 55,500 breeding pairs Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

Golan Heights: An Israeli cowboy watches his herd Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty

Valle de Anton, Panama: An employee of the amphibian conservation centre holds a golden frog. The golden frog is a symbol of Panama but it may be next in line in a string of several frog species that have disappeared due to a lethal fungus known as Chytrid Photograph: Arnulfo Franco/AP

New Holland, US: Jordan Tennis, seven, holds a baby praying mantis on his fingertip as he prepares to release the tiny insect into the wild Photograph: Vinny Tennis/Intelligencer Journal/AP

Qatif, Saudi Arabia: Men admire a colourful rooster during a chicken beauty contest Photograph: AFP

Tetbury, UK: Oilseed rape begins to bloom Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty

Ocean View, Hawaii: A damaged pincushion protea flower on a flower farm. Big Island crops are shrivelling as sulphur dioxide from Kilauea wafts over them Photograph: Chris Stewart/AP

Manila, Philippines: Filipino Tessie Heramis gives one of her pet dogs a bath in a shanty home near the Payatas dump site in Quezon City Photograph: Alanah M Torralba/EPA

Lima, Peru: A newborn black jaguar plays at the Huachipa zoo Photograph: Martin Mejia/AP

La Garita, Costa Rica: A day old scarlet macaw chick that is part of a breeding program at the ZooAve Centre for the Rescue of Endangered Species Photograph: Kent Gilbert/AP

Guwahati city, India: Forest guards keep an eye on a pair of Indian rhinos at Pobitora wildlife sanctuary. Two more rhinos, including a calf, were killed on April 28 by organised poacher gangs at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam Photograph: EPA