Week in wildlife: A wild elephant, a playful dolphin and fighting zebras

He ain’t heavy: two grasshoppers on the Shark Valley hiking trail at the Everglades national park near Miami, Florida

What’s the game? A playful dolphin joined a family on their morning swim at Lyme Bay in Dorset, UK

A one-footed white ibis flies over Lake Eola in Orlando, Florida

Four units at the Gravelines nuclear power plant in Nord, France, were shut down on Monday due to the ‘massive and unforeseeable presence of jellyfish’ in the pumping stations for the water used to cool the reactors

Volunteers walk across a lagoon at dawn to gather flamingo chicks and place them inside a corral before tagging them with identity rings, marking the 40th anniversary of the ringing event at the Fuente de Piedra natural reserve near Malaga, southern Spain

Egrets fly among the blooming lotus flowers in Hongze Lake wetland in Sihong county, China

A migratory bird perches on a dead tree in a deforested patch in Mida Creek, Kenya

A clownfish takes refuge among a sea anemone’s venomous tentacles, gaining protection from predators while also benefiting from feeding opportunities around the anemone in Anemone City, one of the most popular diving spots in the Red Sea, Egypt

A local fisher holds a crab in a reforested mangrove area where fish and crab stocks are recovering, in Marereni, Kenya

Banned African catfish are buried after Assam police seize a vehicle. The cultivation of the Thai Magur, a type of catfish, is banned because it poses a threat to other fish in an ecosystem

A sea cucumber in Havannah Harbour, off the coast of Efate Island, Vanuatu

A brown bear and her cubs seeking food in a garbage dump in the Sarikamiş district of Kars, Turkey, where the world’s only migrating brown bears live

Lions feast on their prey in the Masai Mara wildlife area, Kenya

Three white-tailed eagles have successfully fledged from wild nests in Sussex, UK, marking a new high for a reintroduction programme

A dugong, classified as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, swimming underwater in the Red Sea, Egypt

Elephants cross a road at Tsavo East national park, Voi town in Taita-Taveta county, Kenya

Hammerhead sharks at the Daedalus Reef, on the southern route of the Red Sea

A white rhino crosses a dirt road in Limpopo province, South Africa

A keeper rehydrates a common swift with water at the University Veterinary Hospital Center for Wildlife, Faune Alfort, as a heatwave hits France, in Maisons-Alfort near Paris

An alligator rests near the Shark Valley hiking trail in the Everglades national park in Miami, Florida

Two squirrels frolic in St James’s Park during a heatwave in London

Zebras tussle as they graze in the plains of the Maasai Mara game reserve in Narok county, Kenya

An oriental garden lizard rests in a garden in Nagaon district, Assam, India

A pair of wallabies in the English countryside. The small mammal is usually associated with Australia and New Zealand, but sightings have become increasingly common in Britain, with the latest taking place near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

A woman and a baby watch a three-legged wild elephant walking outside their house in a village near Amchang wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, India