The week in wildlife

Quebec, Canada: A grizzly bear's claws are seen at St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo. Canada estimates 20,000 grizzly bears remain in western Alberta, the Yukon and Northwest Territories and British Columbia Photograph: Mathieu Belanger/Reuters

Srinagar, India: A bird sits on a pile of dried chillies Photograph: Dar Yasin/AP

Sydney, Australia: Three nepenthes ventricosas at the tropical section of the Royal Botanic Gardens. The nepenthes, or pitcher plant, is one of several species of plants that not only survive on water, but get their nutrients from digesting animals and insects Photograph: Daniel Munoz/Reuters

Nairobi, Kenya: A sun halo is seen behind a Rothschild giraffe. Run by the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife, The Giraffe Centre was founded in 1979 and aims to protect the endangered Rothschild giraffe Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

Nevada, USA: Moyo, a three-year-old male cheetah from South Africa, chases a lure during the Cheetah Dash event at the Animal Ark in Reno. Animal Ark runs the cheetahs regularly to keep them in good health Photograph: Kevin Clifford/Ap

Mumbai, India: An Oriental white-backed vulture that was brought injured last week to the Sanjay Gandhi national park. Several vulture species in Asia have been driven to the brink of extinction after eating cattle carcasses tainted with an anti-inflammatory painkiller given to sick cows and is highly toxic to vultures Photograph: Gautam Singh/AP

Munich, Germany: A Bavarian prize ewe looks from between breeders during an animal show at Germany's biggest agricultural fair Photograph: Diether Endlicher/AP

Buenos Aires, Argentina: An Andean Condor, one of the largest flying birds in the world, flies next to other condors after being released into the wild in Sierra de Paileman Photograph: Martin Acosta/Reuters

Hyderabad, India: A white tiger relaxes in water at the zoological park Photograph: Mahesh Kumar/AP

Zhejiang, China: A young orangutan is checked for kidney stones at an animal hospital in Hangzhou Photograph: AP

Hyderabad, India: A butterfly rests on a flower at the Nehru zoological park Photograph: Mahesh Kumar /AP

Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine: A pig at a farm nurses one of her piglets and two of the three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother last week at a zoo. Zookeepers say that the mother tiger appears to have lost its feral instincts after years in captivity Photograph: AP

Widou Thiengoly, Senegal: A ranger stands in front of a black-wood sapling. The Sahel-Saharan nations have launched the 'Great Green Wall' project in Africa in an attempt to halt desertification Photograph: Seyllou/AFP