A fishing anhinga, a northern nutcracker and seals having a cuddle: the week's wildlife, in pictures

The Guardian's weekly wildlife gallery is a small Friday ritual of wonder: this edition opens with an anhinga — the 'snake-bird' that swims with only its neck above water — fishing at dawn, pauses on a northern nutcracker cracking seeds in the cold, and closes with seals cuddled together on the shore. No news peg, no argument: just photographers around the world catching animals in the middle of their ordinary, extraordinary lives.