This recent handout photo released by the Berlin Zoological Garden on September 19, 2024 shows Giant Panda Meng Meng with one of her cubs born at the zoo in Berlin, Germany. Female panda Meng Meng has given birth to twins on August 22, 2024, five years after giving birth to her first offspring. Both cubs are developing rapidly and have cracked the 1kg mark, the zoo said in a statement. (Photo by Handout/Berlin Zoological Garden/AFP Photo)





A great blue heron eats a fish at Overpeck County Park in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey on Thursday, September 12, 2024. (Photo by Julian Leshay Guadalupe/NorthJersey.com via USA TODAY Network)





Foxes are seen playing and hunting at meadow in Essex near Rayleigh, United Kingdom on September 04, 2024. (Photo by Stuart Brock/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A fledgling tawny owl flies the nest for the first time in Bushey, Hertfordshire, UK, 2024. (Photo by Gill Merritt/Animal News Agency)





Moo Deng, a two-month-old female pygmy hippo who has recently become a viral internet sensation, rests at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province on September 15, 2024. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Moo Deng, a two-month-old female pygmy hippo who has recently become a viral internet sensation, is seen at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province on September 15, 2024. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





A burrowing owlet pins down its sibling during a squabble near Fontana airport in California in the last decade of September 2024. (Photo by Sarah X./Solent News)





A pair of foxes seem happy to see each other in Zandvoort, the Netherlands in the last decade of September 2024. (Photo by Anna Stelloo/Solent News)





A North American River otter surfaces while hunting crayfish in the Umpqua River near Elkton in rural southwestern Oregon on September 17, 2024. River otters are considered an indicator species and their presence is a sign of improving watershed conditions. These apex aquatic predators play an important role in ecosystem health, as they eat fish, crustaceans, invertebrates, birds, and amphibians. (Photo by Robin Loznak/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A shoebill frustrates a couple of lapwings by getting too close to their nest in the Mabamba swamp, Lake Victoria, Uganda in the second decade of September 2024. The majority of shoebills, estimated at between 5,000 and 8,000, live in swamps in South Sudan, Uganda, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia. (Photo by Patrick Kientz/Naturagency/Solent News)





A squirrel stands with a nut in its mouth among autumn colours on fallen foliage from trees, in Dublin, Ireland on September 23, 2024. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)





A seal found itself in a bit of bother as a humpback whale, a female named Zillion by local whale watchers, scooped it up while feeding off the coast of Anacortes, Washington state on September 12, 2024. Fortunately for the seal, humpbacks only feed on krill and small fish, straining huge volumes of water through their baleen plates, which act like a sieve. (Photo by Brooke Casanova/Blue Kingdom Whale and Wildlife Tours/TMX/The Mega Agency)





Swans race across Restronguet Creek in southern Cornwall in the last decade of September 2024. (Photo by Alan James/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Pesto, a huge king penguin chick who weighs as much as both his parents combined, mingles in his enclosure at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, and has become a social media celebrity and a star attraction at the aquarium. (Photo by Rod McGuirk/AP Photo)





An American goldfinch takes a bath in a garden fountain in Placentia (near LA), California, US on September 19, 2024. (Photo by Bruce Chambers/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Kingfishers squabble over their fish supper in Bogor, Indonesia in the last decade of September 2024. (Photo by Dzul Dzulfikri/Solent News)





Pacific golden plover, whose habitat is Siberia and Alaska, migrates to Asia, Australia and the islands in the Pacific Ocean during the winter season, is seen in the Kocacay Delta in Karacabey district of Bursa, Turkiye on September 08, 2024. Pacific golden plover, a migratory species that occasionally prefers areas with short vegetation, swamps and clearings for feeding, is rarely seen in Turkiye during the winter months. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A leucistic peacock, which has snow-white feathers due to a genetic condition, at Blackpool Zoo, Lancashire, September 2024. A common misconception is that all white peacocks are albinos and although albino peacocks do exist, for the most part, their snow-white appearance is a result of a genetic condition called leucism. Leucism covers a wide variety of conditions that result in partial loss of pigmentation in an animal, causing white, pale, or patchy colouration of the skin and feathers. (Photo by Helen Black/Media Drum Images)





A deer stag barks as the annual rutting season begins, during above average seasonal temperatures, in Richmond Park, London, Britain, on September 19, 2024. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)





A raptor has killed a pigeon in a garden in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, September 21, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)