Monitor lizards mate in the water along the shore of Woodlands waterfront in Singapore on May 26, 2022. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





A cormorant tosses its catch into the air, like flipping a silver coin, at the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary in Keoladeo Ghana National Park, India on May 17, 2022. (Photo by Vinay Badhe/Solent News)





A fledgling eastern bluebird makes its first flight, leaving a nesting box to join its parents in a nearby tree, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Freeport, Maine. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo)





Chilean flamingos are seen in the Chaxa Lake at the Salt Flat of Atacama, Los Flamencos national reserve, in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, on May 18, 2022. (Photo by Martin Bernetti/AFP Photo)





A Blakiston's fish owl, or Shima owl, flies off with a fish in a forest near the town of Rausu, Hokkaido, northern Japan, 29 May 2022. The Shima owl is the largest owl in Japan with its 70 cm in total length and 180 cm when the wings are spread. (Photo by JIJI Press/EPA/EFE)





A common kingfisher catches a fish in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan on May 18, 2022. (Photo by Sam Yeh/AFP Photo)





Two young golden jackals (Canis aureus) are trying to find food from a plastic bag in a forest in the evening. When they are eating they did various expressions and howl. Hungry animals usually smell food in plastic containers and bags, if they manage to eat the plastic (non-biodegradable waste); it can also cause intestinal blockages and can become fatal for that animal. This photo was taken at Tehatta, West Bengal, India on May 16, 2022. (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A four-week-old baboon or papion (Papio hamadryas) is seen next to its mother at the zoo in Cali, Colombia on May 20, 2022. (Photo by Raul Arboleda/AFP Photo)





Giant pandas eat bamboo in a tree at the Shenshuping Base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda on May 16, 2022 in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province of China. (Photo by Xu Jun/VCG via Getty Images)





A puffin on the Farne Islands in Northumberland as the National Trust staff undertake the now annual puffin census on the remote island on May 22, 2022. The census was changed from five yearly to annually in 2019 due to climate change which is causing a decline in readily available food for the birds. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)





A coppersmith barbet perches on a tree branch in Bangkok, Thailand on May 15, 2022. (Photo by Jack Taylor/AFP Photo)





Working Newfoundland Water Rescue Dogs give a demonstration as they take part on the first day of the Castle Howard Festival of Dogs weekend on May 21, 2022 in York, England. The two-day festival held on the grounds of the North Yorkshire stately home celebrates all aspects of dogs and dog ownership. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)





Water beads on the head of a duck and sparkles in the sunshine at WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucester on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images)





The males, of the Oriental Garden species, are battling over territory in Solapur in the Maharashtra state, India on May 20, 2022. Occasionally, the tussle can be brutal, ending in a fatality with one lizard biting another to encourage them to retreat. (Photo by Ratnakar Hiremath/Solent News)





An elephant feeds from a tree in Lewa Conservancy, Kenya on May 9, 2022. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





Konik horses sparring at the National Trust's Wicken Fen nature reserve in Cambridgeshire on May 25, 2022. The grazing animals, a hardy breed originating from Poland, help to attract new species of flora and fauna to the fen, leaving water-filled hoof prints and piles of dung as they go. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Wire)





Obedient young meerkat pups pose alongside their elders – whilst their rebellious teenage siblings run riot. The younger meerkats – some just weeks old – remained well behaved under the watchful gaze of their elders, but the older juveniles fought each other in the sand in the early morning light. The photos were taken by wildlife photography couple Max and Jenn Waugh, at the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve in northern South Africa on May 18, 2022. (Photo by Max Waugh/Solent News)





Christmas joy has arrived early at a Welsh farm after a very rare, pure white reindeer was born at Gower Fresh Christmas Trees Farm in Swansea, United Kingdom in May 2022. With beautiful blue eyes and a coat as white as snow, the calf is settling in well at the farm and making friends with the other calves that have also been born recently. Scandinavians believe that to see a white reindeer is a sign of eternal happiness, riches and good luck. (Photo by Joann Randles/Cover Images)





Sheng Yi, a female panda, reacts inside the panda enclosure at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. The third cub of Giant Panda couple Xing Xing and Liang Liang from China has been finally given a name – Sheng Yi, means peace and friendship. Yi turns one year old on May 31. (Photo by Vincent Thian/AP Photo)





This dopey duckling missed out by millimetres on catching a fly in Lincoln, Lincs on May 30, 2022. The young bird made a huge leap for its prey but ended up stretching short. The sequence shows the fluffy hunter hopefully watching the insect before stretching its full length and leaping out of the water in an attempt to snatch it from mid air. (Photo by Dave Newman/Triangle News)