Pronghorns range over a vast area, from Canada to northern Mexico, seen here on their annual migration, the only time the males and females come together in a mixed-sex herd. From our gallery: Discovery Channel’s North America
Photograph: Discovery Channel
A Dormouse appears to be laughing as it sits on top of a yarrow flower. The amusing photograph, taken by Italian photographer Andrea Zampatti, in Italy, shows how the heat had a strange effect on this little critter. Photograph: Andrea Zampatti/HotSpot Media
A researcher with holds a coqui guajón or Puerto Rican rock frog (Eleutherodactylus cooki) in a tropical forest in Patillas, Puerto Rico. Taken from the week in wildlife - our team’s pick of nature photographs from around the world.
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A bear stands in front of a steaming geyser in the Valley of the Geysers of Kronotsky Zapovednik, Russia. From this week’s wildlife - in pictures Photograph: Igor Shpilenok/Barcroft Media
Five shark species win protection against the finning trade, after the 178 nations at the world’s biggest wildlife summit voted to crack down on the trade.
The fins of the scalloped hammerhead are among the most valuable of all and it is estimated that 2 million a year are killed.
Photograph: Chris Newbert/Corbis
New research suggests the chemicals are playing a significant and previously unknown role in the global decline of amphibians
Each week, the Guardian Weekend magazine’s editorial team choose a picture, or set of pictures, that particularly tickle their fancy. This week, their choice is Paolo Patrizi’s photographs of starlings
A new species of primate, a “big-eyed” and venomous slow loris, has been identified in Borneo by researchers. But the new loris is already under threat from the Asian pet trade in part because its “teddy-bear face” make it attractive for illegal poaching, the team of UK and US scientists said.
Photograph: Duke Lemur Center / David Haring / Ch’ien C Lee
Some great wintery shots sent into our environment site (via Winter birdlife - your Green shoots photographs | Environment | guardian.co.uk)
A snake snatches a tree frog in the banana trees in Jombang, East Java. Indonesia
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