本周野生生物圖集（2011年12月2日)

【衛報】本周野生生物圖集（2011年12月2日)1Cormorants perched on a tree are silhouetted as the sun rises at Taudaha wetlands in Kathmandu Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

加德滿都Taudaha濕地，西陽西下，樹上的鸕鶿留下了它們在落日餘輝下的身影。 Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

2A baby long-tailed macaque eats fruit offered during the annual monkey buffet festival at the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi, Thailand. The festival provides food and drinks to the local 2,000-strong monkey population, to thank them for drawing tourists to the town Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

一隻小長尾獼猴正在品嘗遊人們拋給它的水果。泰國華富里薩姆仁愛堂寺每年都要舉辦一次猴子食品自助節。當地2000多隻強大的猴群都可在此時享用美食大餐。也正因如此，吸引著各處遊人向此紛至沓來。Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters3An Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) and its calf in the Meghauli Chitwan forest, Nepal. The latest population count has shown that rhinoceros numbers have risen to 534 across Nepal from 435 animals in 2008, as attempts pay off to counter poaching for the rhino"s highly priced horn Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images

一隻印度犀牛(Rhinoceros unicornis) 帶著它的寶寶在尼泊爾奇旺森林游弋。最新的調查顯示，尼泊爾全境犀牛數量從2008年的435頭上升到了534頭。犀牛角的價格居高不下，犀牛數量的增多得益於反盜獵做出的巨大努力。 Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images

4A painted stork comes in to land at its nest in the Delhi zoo, India Photograph: Harish Tyagi/EPA

一隻印度德里動物園裡的彩鸛（Mycteria leucocephala） 外出後返回自己的巢中。Photograph: Harish Tyagi/EPA5A huge flock of starlings crosses the Helton drive overpass in Florence, Alabama Photograph: Matt McKean/AP

一個巨大的羊群穿過的八哥在佛羅倫薩，阿拉巴馬州赫爾頓驅動立交橋6A newborn, endangered Eld"s deer fawn stands with its surrogate mother at Khao Kheow open zoo in Chonburi province, east of Bangkok, Thailand. Thai veterinarians have successfully bred the world"s first test tube Burmese Eld"s deer in an attempt to increase the rare wildlife population in Thailand Photograph: Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters

泰國曼谷東部春武里府開放式動物園裡的一頭新生坡鹿跟在其代孕母親 Khao Kheow的身邊。泰國獸醫已成功培育出世界上第一隻緬甸坡鹿以試圖增加泰國珍稀野生動物的數量。Photograph: Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters7A drought-affected sunflower field in San Isidro de Cienega. Mexico is suffering its worst drought in seven decades, affecting almost 70% of the country Photograph: Stringer/Reuters

聖伊西德羅德謝內一塊受旱災影響的向日葵地里的一朵乾枯的向日葵。墨西哥遭受70年來最嚴重的乾旱，災情波及到全國的70％的地區。Photograph: Stringer/Reuters

his is the incredible moment a fox is captured nose-diving into deep snow to catch a mouse. Wildlife photographer Richard Peters took this picture while travelling through Lamar Valley in Yellowstone national park Photograph: Richard Peters/Rex Features

這是一幅難得一見的鏡頭。一隻狐狸高高躍起，俯衝向下捕捉一隻深藏在雪地之中的老鼠。在穿起黃石國家公園拉馬爾山谷的路途中，野生動物攝影師Richard Peters捕捉到了這一精彩鏡頭。Photograph: Richard Peters/Rex Features9Scientists studying grey wolves in Yellowstone national park have developed a method to predict how animals will respond to climate change Photograph: Daniel Stahler/NPS/Science

研究黃石國家公園灰狼的科學家們已經找到一種預測動物如何應對氣候變化的方法。Photograph: Daniel Stahler/NPS/Science10An albino squirrel climbs in a tree New York Photograph: Julie Lewis/AP

爬上紐約一棵樹杈枝幹上的一隻白化松鼠。 Photograph: Julie Lewis/AP12An albino silver dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei) swimming next to another dolphin in Bahia de Babitonga, Brazil Photograph: PROJETO TONINHAS/UNIVILLE/EPA

巴西巴伊亞州，一隻白化銀海豚（Pontoporia blainvillei）緊帖在另一個海豚身旁在水中游弋。Photograph: PROJETO TONINHAS/UNIVILLE/EPA13A tourist watches fish swimming in a tank at the Siam Ocean World aquarium in Bangkok, Thailand Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

一名遊客正在泰國曼谷暹羅海洋世界水族館裡觀看館中來回穿梭的魚群。Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA14The western falanouc (Eupleres goudotii major), an extremely rare carnivore endemic to Madagascar, was caught on film this week. The unusual creature was spotted by an Earthwatch volunteer who also managed to capture photographs of the animal Photograph: Earthwatch

西部食蟻狸(Eupleres goudotii major)是馬達加斯加特有的一種極為罕見的食肉動物，本周被鏡頭捕捉。這種不尋常的生物還被一位想找到它的地球觀察（Earthwatch）志願者發現。Photograph: Earthwatch15A little stint, a tiny wading bird. Share your photos of wetlands in winter on our Flickr group Photograph: James Lees/WWT

這是一隻小濱鷸，一種體型微小的涉水鳥。將你所拍攝到的冬天濕地中各類珍禽的照片拿來與Flickr組一道與大家共同分享。Photograph: James Lees/WWT
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