A bald eagle soars past a tree with fall foliage leaves changing colors at Adams Pond, Monday, October 20, 2025, in East Derry, N.H. (Photo by Charles Krupa/AP Photo)





Two male fallow deer lock horns in Phoenix Park, Dublin on Monday, October 13, 2025. (Photo by Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images)





An egret stands on the back of a Camargue horse in a field near Villeneuve les Beziers, Southern France, on October 15, 2025. (Photo by Gabriel Bouys/AFP Photo)





Hattie, a four-month-old red panda cub, explores her new surroundings after leaving the nest box where she was born at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire, UK on October 17, 2025. (Photo by E: [email protected])





One of the three months-old West African lion cubs stands in its enclosure at Cerza Zoo, in Lisieux, northwestern France, on October 17, 2025. Three West African lionesses were born in August 2025 at Cerza Zoo, as part of the European Endangered Species Programmes (EEP). In the wild, there are believed to be only 1,700 North African lions left. The IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature - had already placed African lions at the “Vulnerable” level on the Red List of Endangered Species in 2004, and revised the situation in 2015 for West African lions, distinguishing them with a special category to classify them as “critically endangered”. (Photo by Lou Benoist/AFP Photo)





Standalone picture dated October 12, 2025 shows a male Kingfisher eating a cricket at Tices Meadow in Farnham. Surrey, UK. They fly rapidly, low over water, and hunt fish from riverside perches, occasionally hovering above the water's surface. They supplement their diet with insects like crickets. (Photo by Jon Hawkins/Bav Media)





Undated handout photo issued by Woburn Safari Park in UK on Monday, October 20, 2025 of a yet unnamed female Eastern mountain bongo calf, with its mother Othaya, the first born at the park in over a decade. (Photo by Woburn Safari Park/PA Wire)





Leia, a critically-endangered Bornean orangutan, with her newborn baby at Chester Zoo, Cheshire, UK in the last decade of October 2025. (Photo by Steve Rawlins)





Three baby giant otter cubs are causing a splash at an English wildlife park on October 21, 2025 as they give a much-needed boost to their critically endangered species. The babies born at New Forest Wildlife Park mean it now has the largest captive population of giant otters anywhere in the world. (Photo by HelenPinchin/Bournemouth News)





An elephant calf, Tula-Tu plays with a pumpkin, as the Oregon Zoo celebrates Halloween during the 27th annual Squishing of the Squash, in Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 3, 2025. (Photo by Oregon Zoo/Handout via Reuters)





A Burrowing Owl stands guard near its burrow in Davie, Florida on October 21, 2025. Burrowing Owls nest and roost in underground burrows and feed on insects, along with small lizards, mammals, and birds. When threatened, they produce a hissing sound that mimics a rattlesnake to scare off predators. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A parrot and a treepie face off over food during a backyard brawl in Chandigarh, India in the second decade of October 2025. (Photo by Piaget/TwoPointO Media)





A snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) raised by a falconer as part of a captive-breeding program, pictured in its enclosure in Vysocina, Czech Republic on October 22, 2025. (Photo by Slavek Ruta/ZUMA Press Wire via Alamy Live News)





A squirrel carries a nut in its mouth while searching for food among fallen leaves during autumn at Segmenler Park in Ankara, Turkiye, on October 20, 2025. (Photo by Evrim Aydn/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A giant panda rests on a tree at the Shenshuping giant panda base of Wolong National Nature Reserve on October 21, 2025 in Wenchuan, Sichuan Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





An endemic and endangered short-legged ground roller (Brachypteracias leptosomus) catches a Madagascar pimple-nose chameleon (Calumma nasutum) at eastern side of the Madagascar on October 17, 2025. (Photo by Emin Yogurtcuoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images)





This photo provided by Seaside Aquarium shows skin breathing sea cucumbers sitting on a beach in Seaside, Ore., on Tuesday, October 21, 2025. (Photo by Tiffany Boothe/Seaside Aquarium via AP Photo)





A cormorant eating a perch at Tice’s Meadow in Farnham, Surrey, UK on October 22, 2025. The species catches fish with its long, hook-tipped bill while swimming underwater. (Photo by Jon Hawkins/Bav Media)