The week in wildlife – in pictures

Cormorants perched on a tree are silhouetted as the sun rises at Taudaha wetlands in Kathmandu Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

A baby long-tailed macaque eats fruit offered during the annual monkey buffet festival at the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi, Thailand. The festival provides food and drinks to the local 2,000-strong monkey population, to thank them for drawing tourists to the town Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

An Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) and its calf in the Meghauli Chitwan forest, Nepal. The latest population count has shown that rhinoceros numbers have risen to 534 across Nepal from 435 animals in 2008, as attempts pay off to counter poaching for the rhino's highly priced horn Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images

A painted stork comes in to land at its nest in the Delhi zoo, India Photograph: Harish Tyagi/EPA

A huge flock of starlings crosses the Helton drive overpass in Florence, Alabama Photograph: Matt McKean/AP

A newborn, endangered Eld's deer fawn stands with its surrogate mother at Khao Kheow open zoo in Chonburi province, east of Bangkok, Thailand. Thai veterinarians have successfully bred the world's first test tube Burmese Eld's deer in an attempt to increase the rare wildlife population in Thailand Photograph: Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters

A drought-affected sunflower field in San Isidro de Cienega. Mexico is suffering its worst drought in seven decades, affecting almost 70% of the country Photograph: Stringer/Reuters

This is the incredible moment a fox is captured nose-diving into deep snow to catch a mouse. Wildlife photographer Richard Peters took this picture while travelling through Lamar Valley in Yellowstone national park Photograph: Richard Peters/Rex Features

Scientists studying grey wolves in Yellowstone national park have developed a method to predict how animals will respond to climate change Photograph: Daniel Stahler/NPS/Science

An albino squirrel climbs in a tree New York Photograph: Julie Lewis/AP

An albino silver dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei) swimming next to another dolphin in Bahia de Babitonga, Brazil Photograph: PROJETO TONINHAS/UNIVILLE/EPA

A tourist watches fish swimming in a tank at the Siam Ocean World aquarium in Bangkok, Thailand Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

The western falanouc (Eupleres goudotii major), an extremely rare carnivore endemic to Madagascar, was caught on film this week. The unusual creature was spotted by an Earthwatch volunteer who also managed to capture photographs of the animal Photograph: Earthwatch

A little stint, a tiny wading bird. Share your photos of wetlands in winter on our Flickr group Photograph: James Lees/WWT