Cheerful frogs gather around frogspawn, some of the first of the season, at Buckfast Abbey, Devon, UK Photograph: Robin Morrison/SWNS Ice Bed, Nima Sarikhani’s photo of a young polar bear asleep on a small iceberg in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, was voted the winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice award. Sarikhani said: ‘This photograph has stirred strong emotions in many of those who have seen it. While climate change is the biggest challenge we face, I hope that this photograph also inspires hope; there is still time to fix the mess we have caused’ Photograph: Nima Sarikhani/Wildlife Photographer of the Year/PA Two over par ... a monkey and child nip across the fairway at the SDC Open, a golf tournament held in Limpopo, South Africa Photograph: Johan Rynners/Getty Images A pod of about a dozen orcas was trapped by drift ice off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. The orcas managed to free themselves as gaps between the ice grew Photograph: Wildlife Pro LLC/Avalon A pair of pelicans in Adelaide, Australia. These improbable-looking birds first appeared in the early Oligocene period, and fossil evidence shows that they have not changed much in the 30 million years since Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Alamy Live News A manatee basks in the sun at the Tampa Electric Company Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach, Florida. Hundreds of the gentle creatures gather there to enjoy the warm water that is discharged from the power plant Photograph: Chris O’Meara/AP A Sykes’ monkey roams at the Aberdare national park in central Kenya. The Kenyan government wants to build a tarmac road through the reserve’s forest and mountain range. Scientists and conservationists say the project would have an irreversible impact on the ecosystem Photograph: Brian Inganga/AP Two polar bears curl up and sleep peacefully beside one another in the snow in Svalbard, Norway Photograph: Florian Ledoux/Solent News & Photo Agency/Solent News These two Kodiak bears were found wandering along a road in Florida. They had been brought south from Alaska by a man the sheriff’s office called a ‘self-proclaimed bear trainer’, and they escaped the cage he built for them when he failed to close the gate properly. The man was arrested and is facing about a dozen charges relating to animal welfare; the bears, meanwhile, have been taken to a local zoo for safekeeping. Photograph: Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office/Reuters A seal at the Gerlache strait in Antarctica Photograph: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images A hippo emerges from the water covered with greenery in the Maasai Mara nature reserve, Kenya Photograph: Ann Aveyard/Animal News Agency A waddle of king penguins march along the beach at Volunteer Point on the Falkland Islands. The penguins walk to the sea from their colony, approximately 1km away Photograph: Brian Matthews/Solent News & Photo Agency/Solent News A well-camouflagued owl peers out of its nest in Aberdeen, Scotland Photograph: Kelly Deans/mediadrumimages/Mark Deans A moose crosses the road in Turnagain, Alaska, US. The state is having one of its snowiest ever winters, with the area around Anchorage currently buried in 48in (122cm) of snow Photograph: Loren Holmes/AP A red deer pauses in the Çatacık forest, in Eskişehir, Turkey. A breeding station there has been working to increase numbers of red deer, one of the largest deer species in the world, which has grown increasingly rare in the region Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images An openbill stork comes in to land at a wetland near Sylhet, Bangladesh Photograph: Md Rafayat Haque Khan/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock A kangaroo is lit up during ‘golden hour’ in the bush in New South Wales, Australia Photograph: Stuart Walmsley/AAP In honour of global wetland day (2 February), a rehabilitated roadside hawk was released into the wild in western Colombia Photograph: Joaquín Sarmiento/AFP/Getty Images A pelican prepares to catch a freshwater roach fish during feeding time at St James’s Park in London, UK Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters