The week in wildlife – in pictures

A wild Siberian tiger in Tianqiaoling forest area in north-east China’s Jilin province. Footprints and other evidence of wild Siberian tigers have been found in the forest, the local forest bureau and public security bureau said on Monday

Deer graze and walk in the frozen undergrowth in Richmond Park, London, UK as the cold weather continues

A white-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) near the lake in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India

A swarm of spectacled teals flies over the Junam reservoir, a migratory bird habitat, in Changwon, South Gyeongsang province, South Korea

P-22, the beloved mountain lion that lived in the city’s Griffith Park, was euthanised last Saturday after he was found with severe health problems, wildlife officials said. P-22, thought to be about 12 years old, may have been struck by a car, officials say

A pair of deer are seen at sunrise near the Great Miami River in North Bend, Ohio, US

An Iberian lynx takes its first steps after being released in the Sierra de Arana mountain range near Granada, Spain. Five Iberian lynxes, three females and two males, were released in a mountainous area of Andalusi as part of the LIFE Lynx Connect project to repopulate this native species from the Iberian peninsula in the ecosystems most adapted to its characteristics

A tourist vehicle drives down a track as zebra and wildebeest gather at a swamp after recent rains in Amboseli national park, Kenya. While rain has come to some parts of the park and the surrounding area, much of the land remains dry and wild animals have gathered in newly green areas. More than 1,000 animals, including zebras and elephants, have died due to a years-long drought in Kenya

A hyena walks through the shallows of a lake after recent rains in Amboseli national park

Twin giraffes with their mother, Zarafa, in Kenya. The team, dedicated to protecting local endangered giraffes and elephants as part of the Saving Meru’s Giants programme, recorded the birth of the rare twin giraffes at Meru national park, about 180 miles from Nairobi

Swans fly past as the sun rises over the Vistula River in Topolno, northern Poland

Deer are seen at Oxbow nature conservancy in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, US

A full grown Royal Bengal tiger is placed in a cage after it was tranquilised by forest officials in Guwahati, India. The tiger took shelter in between two huge rocks at the shore of an island after swimming through the Brahmaputra River

An elephant seal is surrounded by penguins (Manchots Royaux), on Desolation Island, part of the Crozet Islands, a sub-Antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean. The Crozet Islands are home to four species of penguins. Most abundant are the macaroni penguin, of which some 2 million pairs breed on the islands, and the king penguin, home to 700,000 breeding pairs; half the world’s population. Mammals living on the Crozet Islands include fur seals and southern elephant seals. Killer whales have been observed preying upon the seals

Australian rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) perched on a tree in Adelaide, South Australia

A mountain spider weaves webs to catch prey at dusk at Mangpoo, West Bengal, India