From Chicago gun violence and the exhumed body of Richard III to the world’s first “bionic man” and a bear walking a tightrope, TIME presents the best images of the week.

Buteogallus anthracinus: Common black hawk. Cocha Cashu, Manu National Park, Peru.

Photographs of elephants deep in the Ugandan jungle, leopards in the Ecuadorian rain forests or jacquacus in a national park in Peru have never been seen like this before. TEAM, the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network, has installed cameras in the middle of remote areas all over the world to collect data on local animals and climate. See more here.

April 22, 2012. A Sphynx cat watches a referee during an international feline beauty competition in Bucharest, Romania.

From the first round of voting in the French presidential elections and the crisis between Sudan and South Sudan to the continuing eruption of Mt. Etna and a plane crash in Pakistan, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week. See more here.

Eadweard Muybridge

Animal Locomotion, plate 640, 1887

Can you really mount a worthwhile retrospective of sports photography without some of the most iconic athletes and moments? Turns out you can. In fact, “The Sports Show,” a photography and new-media exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is better off for it. See more here.

From The Nenets Herders, Last Nomads of the North by Anna Nemtsova.

Erica McDonald wanted to help the photographic community, so she created DEVELOP Tube, a video channel curated on both YouTube and Vimeo that offers resources for photographers. It’s part of a larger project that includes an exhibit on view now in Bologna, Italy. See more here.