本周野生生物圖集

本周野生生物圖集（2011年12月22日)1One of the winning entries from the RSPCA Young Photographer Awards – a synchronised caterpillar eating team taken by Georgia Hardy, 12, which won the 12 to 15-year-old group Photograph: Georgia Hardy/PA

這是一幅12歲孩子獲得RSPCA少年攝影師大獎12-15歲年齡組的獲獎作品。作品由 Georgia Hardy所攝，畫面反映的是幾隻毛毛蟲共同蠶食一張葉片時的情景。 Photograph: Georgia Hardy/PA2A flock of flamingoes dot a wet land on Khadir Island, India Photograph: Ajit Solanki/AP

一群火烈鳥在印度Khadir島的濕地上集結，閑庭信步，身姿優雅。Photograph: Ajit Solanki/AP 3A Sea Feather among the dead coral of the Bar Reef marine sanctuary of Kalpitiya beach, Colombo, Sri Lanka Photograph: M.A.Pushpa Kumara/EPA

一形如鵝毛的海鰓隱身於斯里蘭卡科倫坡卡爾皮蒂耶海灘Bar Reef海洋保護區的死珊瑚之中（海鰓，生活在深海底,能發磷光，也叫海筆。是一種腔腸動物）。Photograph: M.A.Pushpa Kumara/EPA 4A white headed eagle flies at the Olympic stadium in Rome Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters

一隻白頭鷹從羅馬奧林匹克體育場上空飛過。Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters 5A mahout washes an elephant in a pool at Gangaramaya Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters

一頭大象正在斯里蘭卡科倫坡Gangaramaya佛寺的水池中享受著象夫給自己帶來的洗浴之樂。Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters 6A group of Angus cattle in the snow in a corral near Ellis, Kansas in the US Photograph: Reuters

一群安格斯牛正頂風傲雪，屹然挺立於美國堪薩斯埃利斯附近的一處畜欄之中。Photograph: Reuters 7A three-day-old rare white kiwi chick at the Mount Bruce national wildlife centre in the Wairarapa region, New Zealand Photograph: Mike Heydon/Lisa Sims Limited/EPA

這是一隻珍稀的只有三天大小的白色小鷸鴕，降生於紐西蘭懷拉拉帕地區的布魯斯山國家野生動物保護中心。Photograph: Mike Heydon/Lisa Sims Limited/EPA8A young Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) monkey sits on a iron fence eating a carrot in New Delhi, India Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images

一隻恆河小猴 (Macaca mulatta) 正坐在印度新德里的一處鐵柵欄上，津津有味地啃吃著手裡的一根胡蘿蔔。Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images 9A Hebrew Character moth. Butterflies and moths have been baffled by th

is year"s extreme weather, with many species appearing at unusual times Photograph: Mark Parsons/PA 這是一隻希伯來語字元蛾（Hebrew Character moth）。蝴蝶和飛蛾一直受到今年極端天氣的困擾，許多物種紛紛在不該出現的時刻出現。Photograph: Mark Parsons/PA 10A bearded dragon warms himse

lf by lights turned on because of the unseasonally cold temperatures at Australian Reptile Park, New South Wales Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images 新南威爾士澳大利亞爬行動物公園迎來了異常的寒冷天氣。一隻髯龍跑到了在燈光下，借光取暖。Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images 11Jackdaws rest on antennas in Courchevel, in the French Alps Photograph: Robert Pratta/Reuters

一群寒鴉在法國阿爾卑斯山高雪維爾的天線上戰風迎寒，經受酷寒洗禮。Photograph: Robert Pratta/Reuters 12Staff carry out a health check on one of the three 12-week-old tiger cubs in their enclosure at Chester Zoo Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

切斯特動物園三隻12周大的幼虎，有一隻誘入網中，正在接受 工作人員對其進行健康檢查。Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters 13African Sulcata giant tortoise hatchlings in Linton, Cambridgeshire. Some of the 45 hatchlings with their mother Kali, 30 Photograph: Linton Zoo/Rex Features

劍橋郡林頓的一隻非洲盾臂巨龜而今人丁興旺，這隻名叫 Kali（30歲）的母龜正帶著45個孩子中的一些小不點在草地上散步。Photograph: Linton Zoo/Rex Features14A man feeds pigeons in front of the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

阿富汗馬扎里 - 沙里夫，哈茲拉特阿里神殿前，一男子正在給一隻鴿子餵食。15Seven-month-old lion cubs gather around an adult white lioness in Belgrade"s Zoo Photograph: Ivan Milutinovic/Reuters

貝爾格萊德動物園，一幫七個月大的幼崽正圍在一隻成年白色母獅周圍，接受母獅的看護。Photograph: Ivan Milutinovic/Reuters 16Migratory birds rest at the Gharana wetland near the India-Pakistan border in Ranbir Singh Pura Photograph: Channi Anand/AP

印度與巴基斯坦邊境附近的蘭比爾·辛格·普拉，密密麻麻的候鳥正在這塊濕地上集結休整。Photograph: Channi Anand/AP 17Balinese men plant mangrove tree seeds as part of a tree planting campaign in Benoa, Indonesia Photograph: Made Nagi/EPA

一群巴厘島男子正在種植紅樹林。這是印度尼西亞貝諾瓦植樹運動的一部分。Photograph: Made Nagi/EPA
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