Week in wildlife

Morning sun bursts through the trees at Dunham Massey, Altrincham. Shorter days and cooler weather bring on the rutting season for red and fallow deer Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

A bull moose chews on a mountain ash tree in east Anchorage, Alaska Photograph: Bill Roth/AP

A flock of starlings fly over Rahovec, 50 miles from Pristina, Kosovo Photograph: HAZIR REKA/REUTERS

A dogfish lies in a bin aboard a fishing vessel in the Atlantic waters off Chatham, Massachusets Photograph: Stephan Savoia/AP

On the moors of County Durham, a rare breed of sheep is helping to tackle bracken that has been threatening local plant and insect life. The Soay sheep eat bracken, which is toxic to native breeds Photograph: Matt Lloyd/North News & Pictures Ltd

Mycena silvaelucens, a glow-in-the-dark mushroom discovered in Borneo, Malaysia Photograph: Brian A. Perry/Barcroft Media

A monkey hunts for food thrown by Palestinian schoolchildren visiting a private zoo in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images

An adult Great Cormorant in breeding plumage, roosting on a pole in the water, in the Bay of Luebeck on the Baltic sea, Germany Photograph: Florian Moellers/AFP/Getty Images

Musa itinerans more commonly know as the Yunnan banana or the wild forest banana. A partnership led by Kew is marking the milestone of collecting a tenth of the world's wild flowering plants by banking a species of wild banana at the botanic garden's seed bank at Wakehurst Place, West Sussex Photograph: Kew Gardens/PA

A female Burmese python (Python molurus) on her nest with eggs in South Florida, where a fad for exotic pets has seen a proliferation of the animals in the glades, set loose when owners tire of looking after them Photograph: Jemeema Carrigan/Skip Snow/National Park Service/USGS

A unique collection of Asian small-clawed otters – the world's smallest – play at Marwell Wildlife in Hampshire Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features

A grove of Giant Sequoia trees in the Sequoia National Park in Central California. The trees, which are native to California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, are the world's largest by volume, reaching heights of 84m Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

Baby elephants orphaned by drought arrive at the David Sheldrick Wildlife trust on the outskirts of the Nairobi national park in Kenya Photograph: Karel Prinsloo/AP

An African Rockhopper penguin sits on a rock after dark on the shoreline at Table Mountain national park in Cape Town, South Africa. The penguins here are entering the moulting season and are part of one of only two mainland colonies in the world Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

A maple leaf falls in Freeport, Maine Photograph: Robert F. Bukaty/AP