An albino squirrel stands out against the greenery in the Company’s Garden in Cape Town, South Africa, on September 24, 2025. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





A stag roars as the rutting season begins in a forest of the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, September 22, 2025. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





This image provided by the National Park Service shows bear 32 Chunk at Katmai National Park in Alaska on September 19, 2024. (E. Johnston/National Park Service via AP Photo)





A brown bear in the last decade of September 2025 splashes after a sockeye salmon in Kamchatka, eastern Russia, where the fish go to spawn each year. (Photo by Alex Perov/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Dale deer on Haringvreter Island in Veerse Meer Lake, Zeeland, the Netherlands, 28 September 2025. The small Haringvreter Island has been overrun by a rapidly growing herd of fallow deer, with reports estimating the population to be as high as 700, stripping vegetation, driving away nesting birds, and even seen swimming to the mainland. Ecologists believe the island can only sustainably support about 150 deer. To restore balance to the ecosystem, the 'Staatsbosbeheer' (State Forestry Service) is now implementing population management strategies, primarily through winter culling, while experts are debating alternative methods, such as translocation or sterilization. (Photo by Olivier Hoslet/EPA)





This grey seal pup was born during the stormy conditions at Maidencombe, south Devon, UK, on Sunday, September 14, 2025. (Photo by Rob Hughes/South West News Service)





A pair of squirrels look squeezed inside the hollow of a tree. The flying Siberian flying squirrels were having a snooze inside their nest, high up in a tree in Hokkaido, Japan in the second decade of September 2025. (Photo by Hiroki Rin/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A stag runs behind hinds in a forest of the Taurus Region near Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, September 24, 2025. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





In Richmond, Surrey, UK in the last decade of September 2025, stags often adorn themselves with bracken or foliage in their antlers to make themselves look more impressive to potential mates. (Photo by Robert Piper/Caters News Agency)





Rhinos roam at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, northwest of Nakasongola, Uganda, Monday, September 22, 2025. (Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda/AP Photo)





Egrets, over wetlands in Orissa, India in the last decade of September 2025, dance both for hunting and courtship. (Photo by Avijit Ghorai/Solent News & Photo Agency)





This spiky tenrec was spotted in Madagascar’s Mantadia National Park in the last decade of September 2025. Mostly nocturnal and rarely seen, it puffs out its spines when threatened. Spiky tenrecs are excellent swimmers — unlike most spiny mammals, some species of tenrec can forage in streams and rivers, using their spines for protection while hunting aquatic insects and small prey. (Photo by Dale Morris/Solent News & Photo Agency)





This honey bear at Bandung Zoo in Indonesia is facing an uncertain future. The zoo has been closed since August 6 due to a management dispute, leaving about 700 animals vulnerable and at risk of starvation. (Photo by ZUMAPRESS.com/Avalon)





A crow at Sukhna Lake, in the city of Chandigarh, northwestern India in the second decade of September 2025, thought it had picked up a twig, when in fact it had got hold of a beedi, a cheap hand-rolled cigarette. (Photo by Anuj Jain/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Flamingos arrive their wintering area, Kocacay Delta on August 10, 2025 in Karacabey district of Bursa, Turkiye. Nearly a thousand flamingos fly along the Mediterranean coastline in flocks to return their wintering areas on the coast of the Marmara Sea. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Glossy ibis begin preparing for migration with the arrival of autumn in Bursa, Turkey in September 2025 Using their long beaks, the birds extract underground prey such as worms, insect larvae and small crustaceans. (Photo by Anadolu/Getty Images)





Storks fly over fields in Buettelborn near Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, September 23, 2025. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A humpback whale leaps in the waters of the Pacific Ocean near Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia on September 20, 2025. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) migrate annually from the Antarctic Peninsula to peek into the Colombian Pacific Ocean coast, with an approximate distance of 8,500 km, to give birth and nurse their young. (Photo by Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP Photo)