The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
Joanna Ruck
Main image: A hornbill holds a scorpion in its beak in the Nxai Pan national park, Kalahari desert, Botswana. The hornbill was struggling to get the scorpion into its mouth, but swallowed it eventually Photograph: Annette Marino/Solent News & Photo Agency/Solent News
Fri 25 Jul 2025 08.00 CEST
Yong, a six-year-old pigtailed macaque rescued from a life harvesting coconuts, gets a vasectomy at the Wildlife Friends Foundation hospital in Phetchaburi, Thailand. The organisation is working with authorities, the coconut industry and exporters to encourage farmers to stop taking monkeys illegally from the wild and using them as labour, and switch to shorter trees that are easier to harvest. They are giving Yong a vasectomy so he can join a mixed troop of rescued monkeys without risk of breeding
