A sleeping dormouse, baby marine iguana and a frilled dragon are among this week’s pick of images from the natural worldA baby turtle emerges from its nest and ventures down to the water, Costa Rica Photograph: George Turner/Rex/Shutterstock

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A baby turtle emerges from its nest and ventures down to the water, Costa RicaPhotograph: George Turner/Rex/Shutterstock

Migrating cranes at sunset near Straussfurt, Germany. The cranes rest in central Germany on their way from breeding places in the north to their wintering grounds in the south
Photograph: Jens Meyer/AP


A deer walks towards a receded lake Purdy where water levels have dropped several feet due to a sever drought, in Alabama, US
Photograph: Brynn Anderson/AP


National Trust ranger James Robbins was carrying out his final dormouse survey of the year in late October on Cornwall’s Cotehele Estate when he found this Hazel dormouse dozing ahead of its winter hibernation. Britain’s dormice are threatened by habitat loss – but at Cotehele conservation work means that numbers are booming
Photograph: James Robbins/National Trust Images


A herd of elephants in Amboseli national park, Kenya
Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images


An aerial picture with a drone shows fall foliage among pine trees near Sieversdorf, Germany
Photograph: Patrick Pleul/Alamy

A grasshopper sits on flowers in Freiburg, southern Germany
Photograph: Patrick Seeger/AFP/Getty Images


Hoar frost on leaves near the village of Groebenzell, southern Germany
Photograph: Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images


A harlequin ladybird prepares to take flight in London, England. The invasive species, originally from Asia, have been seen in high numbers across the UK after a warm and dry summer
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images


A little owl among some woodland mushrooms, Yorkshire, UK
Photograph: Jed Wee/Rex/Shutterstock


A ground pangolin in Zimbabwe, taken as part of a series on members of the Tikki Hywood Trust, who dedicate their lives to the most trafficked mammal in the world. The charity workers are assigned one pangolin each, and spend 24 hours a day rehabilitating and walking the endangered mammals so that they can forage naturally
Photograph: Adrian Steirn/Barcroft Images


Red deer fight during rutting season at a wildlife park in Bonn, Germany
Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP


Group of sperm whales in the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores islands off of Portugal
Photograph: Mike Korostelev/Rex/Shutterstock


Sunrise, Syöte national park, Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland
Photograph: Tiina Törmänen/Rex/Shutterstoc


A warthog walks through the bushes in Kenya’s Maasai Mara
Photograph: Frank Liu/Barcroft Images

Source: Guardian Environment

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