The week in wildlife
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs, including a released beaver, mating damselflies and a fat bear A family of four beavers, two adults and two kits, have been released back into Paradise Fields reserve in west London and will be the first beavers in the west of the capital for 400 years. The project is part of the Rewild London Fund scheme and includes a GPS collar put on a male Sumatran elephant, estimated to be 15 years old, during an operation to help prevent human-elephant conflict in the protected forest in Pangkalan Lesung, central east Sumatra, Indonesia. Other wildlife highlights include a sea turtle arriving at La Flor wildlife refuge in La Flor, Nicaragua, and a Caribbean flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) in an artificial pond at the Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda Park in Caracas, Venezuela. Rescued flamingos were moved to the park after completing their quarantine at Caricuao zoo.
게시됨 : 2 년 전 ~에 의해 Joanna Ruck ~에 Environment Science
• A beaver comes ashore after being released in Greenford, UK. A family of four beavers – two adults and two kits – were released back into Paradise Fields reserve in west London, and will be the the first beavers in the west of the capital for 400 years. The project is part of the Rewild London Fund scheme
• Members of the Riau Natural Resources Conservation Agency put a GPS collar on a male Sumatran elephant, estimated to be 15 years old, during an operation to help prevent human-elephant conflict in the protected forest in Pangkalan Lesung, central east Sumatra, Indonesia. The ministry of environment and forestry estimates that the number of Sumatran elephants in Riau province remains between 200 and 300
• A female peregrine falcon at Malham Cove, UK. Peregrine falcons use false attacks to tire out their prey, a new study suggests. These birds of prey trick Pacific dunlin birds so they are easier to catch later in the day when they are tired or need to forage for food, according to an observational study published in the journal Frontiers in Ethology. Pacific dunlins spend their winters in large flocks on temperate mudflats such as Boundary Bay in British Columbia, Canada
• An olive ridley sea turtle arrives at La Flor wildlife refuge during nesting season in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. More than 1,000 sea turtles arrived early on Thursday morning to lay their eggs en masse on the beach. The turtles arrive several times a year to nest in the sands of the wildlife refuge
• A butterfly rests on a leaf at the Butterfly Garden in Konya, Turkey. The Butterfly Garden provides a natural habitat for about 20,000 butterflies of 40 different species and about 195 plant species from tropical countries. The equatorial climate is maintained for four seasons with a constant temperature of 28C and 80% humidity
• A Caribbean flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) in an artificial pond at the Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda Park in Caracas, Venezuela. Rescued flamingos were moved to the park after completing their quarantine at Caricuao zoo. The birds were illegally introduced into Tocoron prison, where a zoo with wild animals used to operate. As well as the zoo, the prison had restaurants and a pool. The Tren de Aragua gang ruled the roost, using the facility as a criminal operations centre
• A male Epeus triangulopalpis spider waits to catch its prey in Tehatta, West Bengal, India. Epeus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rainforests, or in gardens of south-east Asia. Females are 7-9 mm long, males 6-9 mm. Males have a characteristic V-shaped crest of raised, long hairs on the head, resembling a mohawk
주제: Wildlife