The week in wildlife – in pictures

A brown bear appears to wave while scratching its back against a tree Brown bear appears to wave to photographer while scratching back against tree, Finland - 16 Jul 2015. Tom Mason comments: “After many years of wanting to I headed out to Finland in order to photograph brown bears in the wild. “After 8 hours of waiting, at around 11pm at night, this large male bear decided he had an itch.”