In this article you will find a common toad carrying two males on its back, beautiful peacock butterflies, a snipe, some moor frogs preparing to mate in ponds, a pair of squirrels running in a park, a manta ray swimming in the waters of Raja Ampat, a stranded whale, and a young girl feeding a Rothschild giraffe with her mouth.

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A freshly cut Malagasy rosewood tree illegally harvested in Madagascar’s Masoala national park. The UN describes the rosewood trade as the world’s costliest wildlife crime, with seizures totalling more than almost all other species combined.
Photograph: Toby Smith/Environmental Investigation Agency/AP

A common toad carrying two males on its back in the German village of Altenbrak.
Photograph: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/AFP/Getty Images

Peacock butterflies during a sunny day in Jicin, Czech Republic. British butterflies suffered their seventh worst year on record in 2017.
Photograph: Slavek Ruta/REX/Shutterstock

A common snipe in Nynashamn, Sverige.
Photograph: Mats Janson/Alamy Stock Photo

Moor frogs prepare to mate in ponds in the forest arboretum of the Kudypy forest district near Olsztyn, north Poland.
Photograph: Tomasz Waszczuk/EPA

A pair of squirrels run in a park in the centre of Kiev, Ukraine, on a warm spring day.
Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images

White storks at sunset near Philippsburg, Germany.
Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA

The beauty of gender-bending, by Alexander Mustard. ‘This is a moment of ecstasy, seconds before spawning, in the extraordinary mating ritual of shy hamlets. The male is calling out as he caresses the female, who is curved around him, head-down, about to extrude her eggs. He is fanning his pectoral fins to create a current, which will draw the eggs towards him as he releases his sperm. This coral-reef fish, possibly the most beautiful of the 13 Caribbean species of hamlets, spawns at dusk – a dangerous time, when the most predators are about.’
Photograph: Alexander Mustard/Unforgettable Underwater Photography/NHM

A manta ray swims in the waters of Raja Ampat in eastern Indonesia’s remote Papua province. The area has become home to the world’s biggest manta ray sanctuary as it seeks to protect the huge winged fish and draw more tourists to the sprawling archipelago.
Photograph: Shawn Heinrichs/Conservation international/AFP/Getty Images

An Australian white ibis at the fish markets in Pyrmont, New South Wales, looking for leftovers.
Photograph: Rick Stevens for the Guardian

People watch a stranded whale in Mar del Plata, Argentina. It died, despite rescue efforts.
Photograph: Diego Izquierdo/AFP/Getty Images

A young girl feeds a Rothschild giraffe with her mouth at the Giraffe Centre in Lang’ata, outside Nairobi, Kenya.
Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA