Week in wildlife: a rescued monkey, squabbling jays and an amputee camel

Yong, a six-year-old pigtailed macaque rescued from a life harvesting coconuts, gets a vasectomy at the Wildlife Friends Foundation hospital in Phetchaburi, Thailand. The organisation is working with authorities, the coconut industry and exporters to encourage farmers to stop taking monkeys illegally from the wild and using them as labour, and switch to shorter trees that are easier to harvest. They are giving Yong a vasectomy so he can join a mixed troop of rescued monkeys without risk of breeding

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

A couple of jays squabble in riverside woodlands near Aberystwyth, Wales, UK

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

A humpback whale leaps out of the sea in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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

One of of five owlets rescued after missing their nests during early flying attempts. They are being rehabilitated in Düzce, Turkey

Bumblebees on a sunflower in a field in Frankfurt, Germany

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

Sea lions on the rocky shoreline of La Jolla, near San Diego, California, US

A western barn owl takes to the skies above the rolling landscape of Vysočina in the Czech Republic

A fox flees a forest fire in Bilecik, Turkey

Egrets rest on treetops in Huaian, China

Bats fly out from a cave in Phnom Sampov, Cambodia

A female pheasant takes flight during the 153rd Open Golf Championship at the Royal Portrush golf club, Northern Ireland, UK

A horned sea star in a river on Efate Island, Vanuatu, south Pacific

Swans make their way along the Landwehr canal in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, Germany

Sea turtle hatchlings crawl toward the sea after emerging from their nests on the beach in Mersin, Turkey

Deer cross a street in a forest near Frankfurt, Germany

A sea turtle nibbles on what remains of the once vibrant reef at Havannah harbour, off the coast of Efate Island, Vanuatu

Butterflies gather around flowers along the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas, US

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