Week in wildlife: a rescued monkey, squabbling jays and an amputee camel
Biologist Jhomar Navalo holds a two-toed sloth at a wildlife clinic in Panama City, Panama. Malnourished, disoriented, and behaviourally altered, dozens of wild animals rescued from illegal trafficking are treated by the clinic Photograph: Bienvenido Velasco/EPA
A couple of jays squabble in riverside woodlands near Aberystwyth, Wales, UK Photograph: Philip Jones/Alamy Live News
Cammie, an amputee camel, walks with her prosthetic leg for the first time at the CDRS Benji animal welfare project shelter house in Karachi, Pakistan Photograph: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images
A humpback whale leaps out of the sea in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Photograph: Andre Coelho/EPA
An artificial pond in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, which was initially created to store wastewater but has become a new habitat for flamingos and various other migratory bird species Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
One of of five owlets rescued after missing their nests during early flying attempts. They are being rehabilitated in Düzce, Turkey Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Bumblebees on a sunflower in a field in Frankfurt, Germany Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
A stork family nest next to the crescent moon on the dome of a mosque in a rural neighbourhood in Erzurum, Turkey. For about four years, two storks have nested on the mosque dome. Each spring, they return to lay eggs and stay until autumn, raising and teaching their young to fly Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Sea lions on the rocky shoreline of La Jolla, near San Diego, California, US Photograph: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
A western barn owl takes to the skies above the rolling landscape of Vysočina in the Czech Republic Photograph: Zuma Press/Alamy Live News
A fox flees a forest fire in Bilecik, Turkey Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Egrets rest on treetops in Huaian, China Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Bats fly out from a cave in Phnom Sampov, Cambodia Photograph: Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP/Getty Images
A female pheasant takes flight during the 153rd Open Golf Championship at the Royal Portrush golf club, Northern Ireland, UK Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian
A horned sea star in a river on Efate Island, Vanuatu, south Pacific Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP
Swans make their way along the Landwehr canal in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, Germany Photograph: David Gannon/AFP/Getty Images
Sea turtle hatchlings crawl toward the sea after emerging from their nests on the beach in Mersin, Turkey Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Deer cross a street in a forest near Frankfurt, Germany Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
A sea turtle nibbles on what remains of the once vibrant reef at Havannah harbour, off the coast of Efate Island, Vanuatu Photograph: Annika Hammerschlag/AP
Butterflies gather around flowers along the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas, US Photograph: Eric Gay/AP
A hornbill holds a scorpion in its beak in the Nxai Pan national park, Kalahari desert, Botswana. The hornbill was struggling to get the scorpion into its mouth, but swallowed it eventually
Photograph: Annette Marino/Solent News & Photo Agency
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