Week in wildlife: honeymooning owls, an otter on the razz and a magical frog | Animals | The Guardian

View image in fullscreenOn top of the whirl … a fox admires the northern lights in Kilpisjärvi, at the north-western tip of Finland Photograph: Dennis Lehtonen/SWNSShareView image in fullscreenHoneymoon of a lifetime … this is one of the two mated burrowing owls who stowed away on a cruise ship out of Miami, Florida, US, and are now living the high life at a Spanish resort before returning to the US next month. The ship had a Central Park area full of lush greenery, which may have been what drew them on board; they also liked the mini-golf course. “It must have been very bewildering for them,” said a specialistPhotograph: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation CommissionShareView image in fullscreenA galaxy frog in India.

A group of endangered galaxy frogs are missing, presumed dead, after photographers reportedly trampled all over their microhabitats in their efforts to take pictures of them. The very rare frogs, each the size of a fingertip, live under logs in Kerala. Their spots are thought to be used as a mode of communicationPhotograph: Zoological Society of LondonShareView image in fullscreenGrub crawl … a screengrab from CCTV of a fox and an otter looking for food in Lincoln city centre, UK, at night.

Unlike the fox, the otter has not been a regular visitor to our streets and rubbish bins. But that may change now that its numbers are on the rise in UK waterways: some naturalists believe there may be as many as 11,000 otters nationwidePhotograph: Courtesy of Lincoln councilShareView image in fullscreenA camera trap image of a clouded leopard walking across the Khao Son ridge, ThailandPhotograph: Panthera/DNPShareView image in fullscreenThis little orangutan, about two years old, was rescued from a small cage where he was imprisoned by a gold miner who kept him as a pet in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Randy, as he has been named, had been fed an entirely unsuitable diet of bananas, grass, bread and water, and had an injured leg. He has been taken to a specialist rehabilitation centre for treatmentPhotograph: Indonesia Ministry of Forestry/YIARI/International Animal RescueShareView image in fullscreenFlamingos feed in the lagoon in Venice, ItalyPhotograph: Matteo Chinellato/ipa-agency.net/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenMonkeys fill up at the Huaguo Mountain scenic area in Lianyungang, China.

The mountain is the fictional home of the Monkey King in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, later adapted as the 1970s TV programme MonkeyPhotograph: Xinhua/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenA snow leopard at the Changtang national nature reserve, in southwest China’s Xizang autonomous regionPhotograph: Xinhua/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenA one-horned rhinoceros grazes at Kaziranga national park, Assam, IndiaPhotograph: Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenFlora, a two-year-old Albanian bear, was rescued from illegal captivity by the animal welfare organisation Four Paws. After a four-day journey across Europe, she and her travelling companion Erion, a rescued lion, have arrived at their new homes in Germany and are doing wellPhotograph: Four PawsShareView image in fullscreenA golden langur’s fur gleams in the sun in Kaziranga national park, Assam, IndiaPhotograph: Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenIt’s been a good year for red squirrels, at least in Scotland: a rewilding project led by the charity Trees for Life has seen their range increase by more than 25% in 10 years.

This year alone, Trees for Life has relocated 259 red squirrels to woodland habitats where the species was missing, mainly in the northern and northwestern HighlandsPhotograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenTwo male Tibetan antelopes fight at the Changtang national nature reserve in southwest China’s Xizang autonomous regionPhotograph: Xinhua/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenA great blue heron is silhouetted against the sunset over the Green Cay wetlands in Boynton Beach, southern Florida, USPhotograph: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenA damp rabbit emerges from a flooded field in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. The Fraser river valley flooded last week with 100 households under an evacuation order, and Washington state to the south is also experiencing severe floodingPhotograph: Canadian Press/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenAustralian rainbow lorikeets in Adelaide, South AustraliaPhotograph: Amer Ghazzal/ShutterstockShareExplore more on these topicsAnimalsThe week in wildlifeZoologyPhotography