Week in wildlife: harvest mice, a basking hippo and a hungry egret

The winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, No Place Like Home shows a brown-throated three-toed sloth clinging to a fence post in El Tanque, Costa Rica. It was taken by Emmanuel Tardy, from France, who watched traffic slow to a crawl as the sloth crossed the road

A great egret walks along the dock searching for discarded fish remains at the Ver-o-Peso fish market in Belém, Parà state, Brazil

Nesting gannets and their young at the Bempton Cliffs nature reserve in Yorkshire, England. More than 250,000 seabirds have flocked to the chalk cliffs to find a mate and raise their young, an annual event from April to August

A bumblebee flies next to a sunflower in Berlin, Germany

A herd of northern giraffes in Uganda’s Kidepo Valley national park

Volunteers corral a stranded California sea lion at New Brighton state beach in Capitola, California. There has been a surge in sick sea lions, the majority infected with leptospirosis, a disease that can cause irreversible kidney damage

A hippo basks in the sun on the bank of Lake Naivasha in Kenya, located in the Great Rift Valley at an altitude of about 1,900 metres.

An endangered baby turtle on the beach trying to reach the open sea in Antalya, Turkey. The region is one of the largest turtle nesting areas in the Mediterranean

A grizzly bear walks through grass and sagebrush in Yellowstone national park, Wyoming

A tiny wood mouse (also known as a field mouse) stretches at dawn to reach seed heads to eat in a garden where spent flowers have intentionally been left for wildlife, in Wharfedale, Yorkshire, England

Canadian moose spotted in the Girdwood region of Alaska on the Iditarod national historic trail

A red-legged froglet peeks out from a restoration pond on a ranch near El Coyote, Mexico, that is part of a cross-border effort to bring back the native species in Baja California and southern California

A whale shark swims alongside a snorkeller in Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia. Four in five individuals of the world’s largest fish species spotted at the marine tourism hotspot had human-caused scars, new research reveals

Brazil’s first lady, Rosângela da Silva, releases a parakeet during a reinsertion operation for recovered wild animals in the Chapada Imperial nature reserve in the Brasília federal district

A tortoise that has just been released from captivity in the ​​Chapada Imperial nature reserve in Brazil

Black-headed gulls fight each other as they search for food in the shallows of a lake in the Kocaçay delta in Bursa, Turkey

Impalas on Crescent Island in Lake Naivasha, Kenya. The island is home to freely roaming wildlife including giraffes, zebras and antelopes

Scientists work on a tranquilised jaguar in Calakmul, Mexico, where the jaguar population has increased significantly in recent years. The largest feline in the Americas remains at risk of extinction

A boxwood moth on a boxwood twig in a garden in Malmö, Sweden

The arrival of hundreds of sea lions at San Carlos beach in Monterey, California, has resulted in the closure of the spot for scuba diving. The animals are on their way to the Channel Islands off the coast, their breeding ground

A family of penguins in Antarctica, seen during a study led by a team of Chilean scientists from the University of Santiago to determine the presence of heavy metals due to the increase in tourism in the area