Time for a taste of the Guardian week in wildlife photos. I never post them all and don't necessarily choose the best, just what I'm liking right then (takes too long for impatient me and besides it's an interesting site for the wildlife over many weeks' slide shows, and so are some of the other slide shows that turn up on the edge of the page.)
Tadpoles in the Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada. This image this won the silver award in the wide angle category of the underwater photographer of the year competition.
Photograph: Barcroft Media/Eiko Jones / Barcroft Media
Przewalski's horses at the West Lake national nature reserve area near Xihu, in north-western China's Gansu province. In the harsh desert steppes, the horses, once classified as extinct in the wild, were named after a Russian officer and explorer who spotted them around 1880.
Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
I think this photo is gorgeous --
A female great white egret feeds her chicks by regurgitating a congealed tube of fish in St Augustine, Florida. The chicks will ferociously battle for the meal as they compete with each other for survival.
Photograph: Graham McGeorge/Barcroft Media
Galápagos sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki) in Galápagos, Ecuador. According to a study from the Galápagos national park, the population has decreased by about 50% in the last 30 years. The study states that there is a 'great concern regarding the future of this species', which is already listed on the International Union for the Conservation of the Nature's 'red list' of threatened species.
Photograph: Jose Jacome/EP
Wild horses fight during the Rapa Das Bestas festival in Mougas, north-western Spain. Throughout the summer hundreds of wild horses are rounded up from the mountains of Sabucedo to be sheared and tagged.
Photograph: Miguel Vidal/Reuters
There's a good lion photo that I didn't snag, and a beautiful lake photo..
Very like!
