The week in wildlife – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including snow monkeys, beavers and a selfie-crazy bear Joanna Ruck Main image: A macaque monkey walks on a snow field in Yamanouchi, Japan. Photograph: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images Fri 3 Feb 2023 03.00 EST Two common buzzards (Buteo buteo) scuffle over perching rights near Csobanka in northern Hungary Photograph: Attila Kovács/EPA Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Beaver kits are released into their new environment in Loch Lomond, Scotland Photograph: Joshua Glavin/The Beaver Trust/PA Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A wolf captured by a camera trap at Saint Chely d’Aubrac in southern France Photograph: French Office of Biodiversity/AFP/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Swans on the banks of the Tokachi River near Otofuke-cho in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan Photograph: JIJI Press/AFP/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A blue heron eats a gopher in Pacific Grove, California Photograph: Rory Merry/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Macaque monkeys bathe in a hot spring at the Jigokudani Yaen-koen park on in Yamanouchi, Japan Photograph: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon) found in a school warehouse in Van, Turkey. It is thought to have arrived with a delivery of supplies Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A newly-hatched Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) caterpillar eats its eggshell in a breeding house in Lincoln, New Zealand Photograph: Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A moorhen among snowdrops in St James’s Park, London Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A desert lioness is caught by a camera trap walking towards the Skeleton Coast in Namibia Photograph: Nottingham Trent University Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Selfies taken by a black bear on a wildlife camera in Colorado, US. The curious bear stumbled upon a motion-activated camera near Boulder and triggered hundreds of selfies Photograph: City Of Boulder Open Space And Mountain Parks Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A mallard looks on Stover country park lake in Newton Abbot, UK Photograph: Harry Trump/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Cows walk through the abandoned village of Khabha in India’s desert state of Rajasthan Photograph: Sebastien Berger/AFP/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A fox walks past Number 10 Downing Street in London ahead of the British cabinet’s weekly meeting Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A kingfisher stuns a fish beforer swallowing it on a river in Bedfordshire, UK Photograph: Warren Price/Solent News & Photo Agency/Solent News Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A man helps a monkey to drink water in Mahabaleshwar, India Photograph: Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A short-eared owl at the Fernald nature preserve in Ohio, US Photograph: Jason Whitman/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A chequered skipper (Carterocephalus palaemon) butterfly. Around 80% of UK butterfly species have declined since the 1970s, according to a new report Photograph: Gilles San Martin/Butterfly Conservation/PA Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A male peacock at Daumesnil lake in Paris Photograph: Morissard Aurelien/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A snail at Garden by the Bay in Singapore Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Topics Wildlife The week in wildlife Photography Animals Zoology