Week in wildlife: a turtle hatchling, a curious marmoset and an oarfish

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  • A hyena yawns at the Lion Safari Park near Johannesburg, in South Africa. The park is home to many species at risk of extinction

    A hyena yawning
  • A nutria, also known as coypus or swamp rats, among the bushes in Edirne, Turkey. The nutria, native to South America, lives in wetlands, and is among the invasive species that affect natural habitats by hunting the eggs of water birds as well as plants. The animals were first documented in Turkey in 1984 and continue to live around the Tundzha and Maritsa rivers

    A nutria eating while resting on the edge of wetlands
  • A ranger with the 35-year-old Najin, one of the last two northern white rhinos in the world, at Ol Pejeta conservancy in Kenya. Najin and her daughter, Fatu, are the only northern white rhinos left but a recent breakthrough means the species might be saved. White rhinos were declared functionally extinct after the death of the last male, Sudan, in 2018. Both Najin and Fatu have uterus problems, although the latter still produces viable eggs, making her a candidate for IVF

    A ranger strokes the northern white rhino named Najin
  • A hummingbird drinks from a flower in a garden on the outfield lawn before a spring training baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the Athletics, in Surprise, Arizona

    A hummingbird drinks from a flower
  • Zebras at Nairobi national park in Kenya

    A group of zebras
  • Dozens of seals on a remote beach near St Austell, Cornwall. The animals are known to visit the area at low tide but not normally in such large numbers

    Dozens of seals on the sand in a small bay as seen from the cliff above
  • A marmoset along the Forte Duque de Caxias hiking trail in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. These small, curious primates are known for their playful nature and large, expressive eyes

    A marmoset sitting in a tree
  • A lynx forages for food in the mountains of the Munzur valley national park in Tunceli, Turkey

    A lynx standing on a mountainside
  • Beachgoers find a rare oarfish swimming in the shallow waters of a beach in Baja California Sur in Mexico. Footage shows the fish, which can grow up to 36ft long, flailing in the shallows, before a man attempts to return it to deeper water.

    A swimmer holding an oarfish in shallow water
  • A white-eye bird perches on a blossoming plum tree at the Yushima Tenmangu shrine in Tokyo

    A white-eye bird perches on a blossoming plum tree
  • As spring approaches, a common frogs spawns in a garden pond in mid-Wales

    A common frogs spawns in a garden pond in mid Wales, UK
  • Giraffes at the Lion Safari Park near Johannesburg, South Africa

    Two giraffes stand by a tree
  • Caterpillars of the oak processionary moth cluster on the trunk of a tree in Odense, Denmark, where 850 nests with these allergenic caterpillars are being removed by local exterminators. The oak processionary moth has toxic hair that can trigger allergic reactions, serious illness, and in the worst case, death

    Caterpillars cluster together on the trunk of a tree
  • An owl rests on a branch as the sun sets at Papago Park, in Phoenix, Arizona

    An owl rests on a branch
  • A Scottish Highland bull on the loose in New Milford, Connecticut

    A Scottish Highland bull standing on the road in headlights of a vehicle
  • Common buzzards clash over Romney Marsh, near Ashford in Kent, while hunting for prey. Buzzards have a large hunting range, and fly high above woodlands, open countryside and even motorways during their searches for rabbits, rodents and birds

    Common buzzards clash in the air
  • A pair of Egyptian geese with their goslings on the river bank in Henley-on-Thames, UK

    A pair of Egyptian geese with their goslings stand on a river bank
  • A Rüppell’s griffon vulture, which is due to be released after receiving care from volunteers from Tunisia’s Wildlife Association in Sidi Thabet, in the country’s Ariana province

    A Ruepell’s griffon vulture
  • Axolotls scurry on the ground before their release into the canals of Xochimilco, a borough of Mexico City

    A large group of axolotls on the ground
  • A leatherback sea turtle hatchling heads towards the sea after its release at Lhoknga beach, Indonesia

    A leatherback sea turtle hatchling crawling on the sand
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