The week in wildlife

Bangkok, Thailand: A black-shouldered kite that was seized by environmental crime police along with other rare species. These birds of prey are found in Australia and southern Africa and are listed as a threatened species Photograph: Sakchai Lalit/AP Photograph: Sakchai Lalit/guardian.co.uk Amritsar, India; Fish swim in waters outside the Golden Temple. The city's name means 'the pool of the nectar of immortality' in Punjabi Photograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Narinder Nanu/guardian.co.uk Melbourne, Australia: A two-day-old elephant shelters below the body of mother Dokkoon at Melbourne zoo Photograph: Melbourne Zoo/EPA Photograph: Melbourne Zoo/guardian.co.uk Cape Town, South Africa: An Acraea butterfly sucks nectar from a wild mint flower Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA Photograph: Nic Bothma/guardian.co.uk Lima, Peru: A tiger that belongs to the zoo inside its cage. Six lions in very poor condition were confiscated from a circus in a northern city in Peru and were put under the safekeeping of the zoo in Lima Photograph: Pilar Olivares/Reuters Photograph: Pilar Olivares/guardian.co.uk Bucharest, Romania: A mallard duck cleans its feathers on a pond Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/guardian.co.uk Shanghai, China: A panda chews on a bamboo shoot in an enclosure at the Shanghai zoo. Ten giant pandas went on show at the zoo for the first time this week. The six females and four males were born in the Sichuan province shortly after the area was hit by an earthquake in 2008 and were moved to their new home last month . The pandas will spend a year in Shanghai as part of the city's 2010 World Expo, which runs for six months from May Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters Photograph: Aly Song/guardian.co.uk Gurgaon, India: A drongo bird on a wire against a background of fog-enveloped trees. Severe cold conditions continue in most parts of northern India Photograph: Gurinder Osan/AP Photograph: Gurinder Osan/guardian.co.uk Nanyuki, Kenya: A family of elephants on the move in search of water Photograph: Noor Khamis/Reuters Photograph: Noor Khamis/guardian.co.uk Singapore: A 32-day-old barn owl in the Jurong bird park. The barn owl is the most widely distributed species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds. There are over 30 subspecies of barn owl, and with a few exceptions, they are distributed worldwide Photograph: How Hwee Young/EPA Photograph: How Hwee Young/guardian.co.uk Sapporo, Japan: Japanese macaques gather on a tyre for warmth at Sapporo Maruyama zoo Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters Photograph: Issei Kato/guardian.co.uk New Delhi, India: A troop of monkeys crosses a road on a foggy morning Photograph: Manan VatsyayanA/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Manan VatsyayanA/guardian.co.uk