A vicuna is pictured near the Salar del Hombre Muerto, or Dead Man's Salt Flat, near 4,000 metres above sea level, in Salta, Argentina on August 13, 2021. (Photo by Agustin Marcarian/Reuters)





A Panther Chameleon eats an insect at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo 2021 weigh-in and measurement, in Dunstable, Britain, August 24, 2021. (Photo by Matthew Childs/Reuters)





Panda cub Pit chews a cardboard sign inscribed with “Happy Birthday Paule and Pit” to celebrate the panda twins' 2nd birthday at the Zoologischer Garten zoo in Berlin on August 31, 2021. On loan from China, the cub's parents Meng Meng and male panda Jiao Qing arrived in Berlin in June 2017. While their cubs, Paule and Pit, are born in Berlin, they remain Chinese and must be returned to China after they have been weaned. (Photo by John MacDougall/AFP Photo)





A capybara jumps into the Jaguari dam, which is part of the Cantareira System, responsible for providing water to the Sao Paulo metropolitan area, in Braganca Paulista, Brazil, Wednesday, August 25, 2021. Water levels plunged during the drought season, bringing concerns about the water supply to the largest Brazilian metropolitan area. (Photo by Andre Penner/AP Photo)





General view of the otters of the Lisbon Oceanarium, on August 30, 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. The Lisbon Oceanarium is a public aquarium that usually receives more than one million visitors a year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has implemented a reduction in the number of visitors, carrying out frequent cleaning actions of spaces and mandatory use of masks during the visit. (Photo by Nuno Cruz/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An infant black squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on August, 31, 2021. Black squirrels are a melanistic subgroup of squirrels with black coloration on their fur. The phenomenon occurs with several species of squirrels, although it is most frequent with the eastern gray squirrel. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Bears eat a frozen watermelon to cool off at the Rome zoo (Bioparco di Roma) as temperatures reach 37 degrees Celsius on August 16, 2021. (Photo by Andreas Solaro/AFP Photo)





A seal looks out of the transport cage at the eastern tip of the island of Juist in Lower Saxony on August 13, 2021. The three young seals “Max”, “Martin” and “Sixtyfour” were released back into the wild by the seal breeding station in Norddeich. (Photo by Sina Schuldt/picture alliance via Getty Images)





A Humpback whale jumps in the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the Uramba Bahia Malaga Natural Park near Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia on August 26, 2021. (Photo by Luis Robayo/AFP Photo)





A Malayan flying fox is seen hanging on a branch in an enclosure at the Singapore Zoo in Singapore on July 6, 2020, on its first day of reopening to the public after the attraction was temporarily closed due to concerns about the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





Flamingos are seen in an enclosure at the Kowloon Park Bird Lake in Hong Kong on August 19, 2021. (Photo by Isaac Lawrence/AFP Photo)





A three-day-old Bengal tiger calf is cared for after being fed at the National Zoo in Masaya on August 30, 2021. A female Bengal tiger calf was born in the National Zoo of Nicaragua, the fourth of this species in risk of extinction born in captivity in the country, and is under special care due to a limited breastfeeding capacity of the mother. (Photo by Inti Ocon/AFP Photo)





A Village Weaver (Black-headed Weaver) pulls a strip of leaf from a banana tree to build a nest in Thies, Senegal on August 28, 2021. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)





This photo taken on July 21, 2021 shows an elephant at Wild Elephant Valley, a nature reserve for wild elephants that also features elephant-themed shows for tourists, in Xishuangbanna in southwest China's Yunnan province. An elephant in the street is now a common sight for residents of the animals' home territory on the Myanmar-Laos border, where a recovering elephant population is being squeezed into ever-shrinking habitat, leading to growing human-elephant conflict. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





A llama called Winter, whose antibodies were used in the hunt for a treatment for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), stands in a meadow in Genk, Belgium on August 23, 2021. (Photo by Johanna Geron/Reuters)