Week in wildlife

Week in wildlife


Mature azure damselflies are frequently seen mating and laying eggs. They usually stay close to the vegetation around ponds or lakes, and fly from May to September
Photograph: Andy Thompson


A four-day young South American sea lion cub lies in its enclosure in the Schönbrunn zoo in Vienna
Photograph: HO/REUTERS


A male Royal Bengal tiger leaps into the water after it was released from a boat on the river Harikhali in the Sunderbans delta forest, some 100 miles south of Kolkata. The tiger was captured by forest officials in March, after straying close to the village of Samshernagar. Prior to release the tiger was tagged with a microchip to enable its movements to be tracked
Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images


A 'bald' bird newly discovered in Savannakhet province in Laos. The bird is Asia's first new species of bulbul, or songbird, in more than 100 years, said the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
Photograph: Iain Woxvold/AFP/Getty Images


Wildebeests (connochaetes taurinus) prepare to cross the Mara river during a migration in Masaai Mara game reserve, 165 miles south-west of Nairobi. The annual zebra and wildebeest migration is expected to attract a large number of tourists but there are fears on the dropping water levels due to the deforestation in the Mau forest complex; the largest indigenous forest in East Africa. The migration is the world's greatest wildlife spectacle taking place between the open plains of the Serengeti and the Masaai Mara as the animals migrate to greener pastures as the seasons change
Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters