The week in wildlife – in pictures
A snacking water vole, two-towed sloths and humpback whales and among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
A water vole snacks on berries – the image titled Berry Brunch, was selected by Countryfile viewers as the winner of the show’s annual photography competitionPhotograph: Dean Mason/BBC/PA
A stag stands in fog during the rutting season in Richmond Park, London, UKPhotograph: Matt Dunham/AP
Amanitas in a forest in the village of Blagoveshchenye, Ivanovo, RussiaPhotograph: Vladimir Smirnov/Tass
A sugarbird sits on the branches of a burned wild fynbos bush in Table Mountain national park, Cape Town, South AfricaPhotograph: Nic Bothma/EPA
A snub-nosed monkey at a research base in Shennongjia, Hubei, central China. The latest consensus show numbers of snub-nosed monkeys in the area have more than doubled from 501 in 1986 to more than 1,300 in 2016Photograph: Xinhua / Barcroft Images
Dead fish float over West lake, Hanoi, Vietnam, where hundreds of kilograms of dead fish have been found over the last few days. Fishermen and activists claim discharged pollutants in the water are poisoning marine lifePhotograph: Minh Hoang/EPA
Rhinos graze in the bush on the edge of Kruger national park in South Africa, where rangers are enlisting the help of tracker dogs to catch poachersPhotograph: Denis Farrell/AP
An impala with two oxpeckers in Kruger national park, South Africa. Oxpeckers have a mutually beneficial relationship with most of the large mammals in the park by eating parasites from their skins, but a lesser known fact is that they also eat earwax to aid in the bird’s’ digestionPhotograph: Greatstock / Barcroft Images
The ‘twilight zone’ of Hawaii’s deep coral reefs are home to vast algae meadows and support the highest rates of species found nowhere else in Earth’s seas, scientists have discovered. Macroalgae beds such as this Microdictyon setchellianum at a depth of 64 meters (210ft) off Pearl and Hermes atoll play a critical role in the ecology of deep coral-reef ecosystems. Nearly every fish in this image is a species endemic to the Hawaiian IslandsPhotograph: Greg McFall/Peerj
Illegally traded slow lorises rescued by police in Jakarta, IndonesiaPhotograph: Jefta Images / Barcroft Images
Dawn dew is frozen on flowers near Sagujfalu, HungaryPhotograph: Peter Komka/EPA
A seagull flies past the river Main where low sun spreads glittering reflections on the water, Frankfurt am Main, western GermanyPhotograph: Frank Rumpenhorst/AFP/Getty Images
A trail of water is suspended in midair from the feet of a snowy egret taking flight, Bay Farm Island, Alameda, California, USPhotograph: Richard Worth/Alamy
A desk at the Cites global wildlife summit, where some of the proposals passed included increased protection for pangolins, grey parrots and rosewood. The conference also agreed to close allnational ivory markets that are ‘contributing to poaching or illegal trade’.Photograph: IISD
A woman walks past an anti-pangolin trafficking billboard in Beijing. The Cites global wildlife summit banned all trade of pangolins, but doubts remain whether that will stop their illegal trade that is fuelled by a growing demand from Asian consumers, particularly ChinesePhotograph: Andy Wong/AP
European peacock butterfly in Sihastria, Neamt, RomaniaPhotograph: Steve Grove/Alamy
Motherhood by Tony Wu. The most important relationship in a young humpback whale’s life is the one with its mother. Juveniles depend entirely on their mothers for survival for about the first 10 months of life. The image is featured in the Wildscreen’s Witness the Wild open-air exhibition in Bristol, UKPhotograph: Tony Wu/Wildscreen 2016
Guardian journalist, Patrick Barkham, photographing seals in Blakeney HarbourPhotograph: David Tipling
Two-toed sloths climb towards each other on a vine near Manzanillo on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coastPhotograph: Lindsay Fendt/Alamy
A large flock of geese gathering before winter migration in Laajalahti, Espoo, FinlandPhotograph: Jekurantodistaja/Alamy
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