The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
Joanna Ruck
Main image: A family of penguins in Antarctica. Photograph: Jose Jorquera/University of Santiago USACH/AFP/Getty Images
Fri 29 Aug 2025 08.00 CEST
The winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, No Place Like Home shows a brown-throated three-toed sloth clinging to a fence post in El Tanque, Costa Rica. It was taken by Emmanuel Tardy, from France, who watched traffic slow to a crawl as the sloth crossed the road
