Best Wildlife Photos of the Week

A brown hare on arable farmland near Roxburgh village in the Scottish Borders.
Photograph: Chris Strickland/Alamy

Two common frogs mating next to a pile of spawn, a sure sign that spring is under way, in Hailsham, East Sussex, UK.
Photograph: Ed Brown/Alamy

An eastern quoll takes its first steps into the wild during a translocation in Jervis Bay in northern New South Wales. A species of quoll devastated by foxes has been returned to the wild in mainland Australia for the first time in almost 50 years.
Photograph: Morgan Cardiff/AFP/Getty Images

Gentoo penguin colony on Cuverville Island in Errera channel, Antarctic Peninsula.
Photograph: Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace

A still from Albatross, a film by Chris Jordan shot on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean that shines a light on the crisis facing the birds caused by plastic waste
Photograph: Chris Jordan