A crab walks in a mangrove recovered from deforestation in the Guapimirim environmental protection area on Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Four years ago, the Mar Urbano NGO planted 30,000 mangrove trees in the deforested area, that today reach up to 4 meters high. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)





Flamingos at the foot of Mount Erciyes are viewed at Hurmetci Reed, on May 16, 2024 in Kayseri, Turkiye. Hurmetci Reedbed at the foot of Mount Erciyes in Kayseri welcomes flamingos. The flamingos create a beautiful image in the reeds 13 kilometers from the city center, which they use as a resting and feeding place. (Photo by Sercan Kucuksahin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A male white peacock is one of the new residents at Bird Gardens Scotland in Oxton, Scottish Borders on May 24, 2024. He is making his presence known as he displays its white feathers. Their feathers are white due to a genetic mutation known as leucism, which inhibits melanin from being deposited in their feathers. (Photo by Phil Wilkinson/The Times)





A baby black lemur holds onto its mother at their cage in the zoo in Warsaw, Poland, on May 28, 2024. (Photo by Kacper Pempel/Reuters)





A cygnet keeps snug under its mother’s wing at Heronry Pond in Wanstead Park in east London in the last decade of May 2024. (Photo by Jeff Moore/The Times)





Two hares run over a field in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, early Monday, May 27, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A Blue Tit arrives in its nest in Portslade, southern England on May 20, 2024. (Photo by Glyn Kirk/AFP Photo)





A blue-throated bee eater catches a butterfly at the bank of Minjiang River in Nanping, southeast China's Fujian Province, May 10, 2024. Located along the bird migration route between East Asia and Australasia, Fujian is noted for its great biodiversity, and the number of wild animal and plant species ranks among the top in the country. A large number of migratory birds breed, overwinter or stop over in the province every year, and about 600 bird species have been recorded here. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A gull living in the Lake Van Basin feeds by hunting pearl mullets that migrate to fresh waters by swimming against the water to breed in Van, Turkiye on May 18, 2024. (Photo by Necmettin Karaca/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A female eastern bluebird holds a clump of pine needles she is using to pad a nesting box, Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in Freeport, Maine. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo)





Three Atlantic puffins during breeding season on Great Saltee Island, on May 21, 2024, in Great Saltee, Saltee Islands, County Wexford, Ireland. The uninhabited Saltee Islands off Ireland's southeastern coast are a seabird paradise and crucial breeding ground for species like fulmars, gannets, shags, kittiwakes, guillemots, razorbills, and puffins, situated along an important migration route. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A young chimpanzee puckers up at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone in May 2024. Renato Granieri, who took the photograph, said the chimp seemed to be modelling for him. (Photo by Renato Granieri/Solent News)





Two male blue-tailed bee-eaters fight for the affection of a female in Khisma Forest, India in the last decade of May 2024. (Photo by Prasenjit Dutta/Media Drum Images)





This swan couple has a romantic moment as they create a heart shape while nuzzling their beaks together over their cygnets swimming underneath. The tender scene was snapped by Philip Wilson at Bedfont Lakes near Heathrow Airport in London in the last decade of May 2024. (Photo by Philip Wilson/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Two zebras lunge at one another in Kruger National Park, South Africa in May 2024. Stallion fights are often very violent and can end in death. (Photo by Brigitte Marcon-Alcalay/Caters News Agency)





A playful encounter between an adult female proboscis monkey and a juvenile turns tense after the younger animal yanks on her nose at a sanctuary in Sandakan, Malaysia in the last decade of May 2024. (Photo by Cede Prudente/Solent News)





A heron flies over Chapultepec's lake in Mexico City on May 30, 2024. (Photo by Rodrigo Oropeza/AFP Photo)





Three young parrots patiently wait for their parents to return with food in Chandigarh, India in May 2024. (Photo by Anuj Jain/Media Drum Images)





Standalone picture dated May 26, 2024 shows ducklings huddled together and keeping dry on a branch at Swindon Lagoons Reserve in Wiltshire, UK. (Photo by Teresa Farr/Bav Media)





A Spix's macaw perches in a tree in a breeding facility project in its native habitat in a rural area of Curaca, Bahia state, Brazil, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. A South African couple is reintroducing the Spix’s macaw to nature through breeding and reintroduction efforts. Despite challenges such as habitat loss, climate change and government disagreements, they are working with local communities to return the bird to its native habitat. (Photo by Andre Penner/AP Photo)