The week in wildlife – in pictures

An Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) white fox on the shore of Evergreen Lake near Hudson, Illinois Photograph: Lenore Sobota/AP

A butterfly sucks the nectar from a flower in Srinagar, India Photograph: Farooq Khan/EPA

A llama crosses the road near the Tolillar salt flat in Salta province, Argentina Photograph: Enrique Marcarian/Reuters

A red deer in Alexandrovsky forest, Russia Photograph: Matytsin Valery/ Matytsin Valery/ITAR-TASS Photo/Corbis

A wild Asiatic elephant basks the winter morning sun at Kaziranga national park, India Photograph: EPA

An Oribi antelope pictured in the grassland in the Murchison Falls national park, Uganda Photograph: GERNOT HENSEL/EPA

Beau, a 55-day-old echidna, in the hands of a vet nurse at Taronga zoo in Sydney. The baby animal was rescued by hikers after it was found abandoned on a bushwalking track near Newcastle in New South Wales Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters

A marabou stork perches on top of a tree in the grassland in the Murchison Falls national park, Uganda Photograph: Gernot Hensel/EPA

Dalmatian Pelican adults fight for discarded fish on Lake Kerkini, Greece Photograph: Bill Coster/FLPA/Rex Features

Salmon leap out of the water in the River Ettrick in Selkirk, Scotland Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

The bark of a dead mangrove tree is pictured in La Tirana, El Salvador. Rising sea levels and deforestation have destroyed the mangrove crops that villagers depend on to survive Photograph: Reuters

Hippos rest near the bank of the Nile River in the Murchison Falls national park, Uganda Photograph: Gernot Hensel/EPA

Two-week-old Nina, a Celebes ape, hides between branches at the Ramat Gan safari park near Tel Aviv, Israel Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA