Seventeen-year-old male panda Yuan Zi plays inside his enclosure at France's Beauval Zoo as he prepares to enter quarantine before being shipped back to China, in Saint-Aignan, France, on October 24, 2025. (Photo by Christian Hartmann/Reuters)





Nadezhda the Don Sphynx cat looks at the camera during the FIFe World Show Romania 2025, the world's largest cat event, held in a different country every year, which brought together more than 1000 cats from over 30 countries, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, October 25, 2025. (Photo by Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo)





Meerkat pups enjoy their first halloween with a pumpkin at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling, UK on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, as animals embrace the Halloween spirit with special themed enrichment sessions, part of Blair Drummond's ongoing HalloWILD event, a family-friendly autumn celebration running until the 31st of October. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images)





A red deer looks as though it is yawning while it bellows at sunrise. The stag created a cloud of steamy breath as it was warmed by the first light of the sun in Richmond Park, London on October 28, 2025. (Photo by Cristian Vasile/Solent News & Photo Agency)





An American bald eagle hunts for fish during the morning hours at the Oxbow Nature Conservancy in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on October 25, 2025. (Photo by Jason Whitman/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A general view of Maasai Giraffe at the Nashulai Maasai Conservancy, the first ever community-owned and directed wildlife conservancy in the Masai mara - Serengeti ecosystem in Narok County, on 07 October, 2025. The Nashulai conservancy prides itself on the way the local Maasai people and their livestock live alongside wildlife. Many of the Maasai Mara's community conservancies make their money from foreign tourists who are sold the myth that Kenya's great plains have no people, when in reality local pastoralists have leased the land to a tourism company and moved elsewhere. (Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP Photo)





A pair of inquisitive mice climb on fungi and moss in the photographer’s garden near Burnley, Lancashire, UK in the last decade of October 2025. (Photo by Clifford Ferguson/Solent News)





Eastern Grey Kangaroos are seen among Patterson's Curse (Echium plantagineum), which blooms during Spring on October 24, 2025 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Morgan Hancock/Getty Images)





Canada geese take flight just after sunrise at the Oxbow Nature Conservancy in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on October 23, 2025. (Photo by Jason Whitman/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A stag bellows amid the bracken in the early morning light at Bushy Park in London, Thursday, October 30, 2025. (Photo by Alastair Grant/AP Photo)





Standalone picture dated October 25th, 2025 shows a Bearded Tit at RSPB Leighton Moss in Carnforth, Lancashire, UK. The birds are usually found flying over reedbeds and are sociable and noisy. (Photo by Jonny Gios/Bav Media)





Harvest mice seek shelter and food in dried poppy heads in United Kingdom in the last decade of October 2025. (Photo by Maria Kula/TwoPointO Media)





A great spotted woodpecker pauses during a rain shower in Aberystwyth, Wales, UK in the last decade of October 2025. (Photo by Philip Jones/Alamy Live News)





A pod of pelicans swims across a marshland in Chennai, India on October 31, 2025. (Photo by R. Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





Stags in Richmond Park, southwest London early November 2025, woo potential mates during the rutting season with their antlers covered in bracken to look more impressive and discourage rivals. (Photo by Felix Belloin/Solent News & Photo Agency)





View of a cat at the Miraflores Central Park, commonly known as the “Cats Park” in Lima, Peru, on October 22, 2025. The cats first appeared in the park in the 1990s, when the municipality introduced them to help control a rat infestation. Today, more than a hundred cats live there, cared for by a group of volunteers who feed them, provide medical treatment when needed, and promote their adoption. (Photo by Raul Arboleda/AFP Photo)





An extremely rare leucistic yellow baboon hitches a ride on its mother’s back back in South Luangwa National Park in Zambia in the last decade of October 2025. Leucistic baboons are almost unheard of, with only a handful of sightings confirmed in the wild. Their pale coats make them stand out to predators and vulnerable to social rejection. (Photo by Alexander Ley/Burkhard Ley/TwoPointO Media)





Gray cranes gather during sunset at their roosting site in the Hortobagy National Park, Hungary, 19 October 2025 (issued 20 October 2025). During the autumn migration from mid-September to late November, Hortobagy National Park serves as one of Europe's largest stop-over sites for the Common Crane or Grus grus, where they rest and feed before continuing their journey to the southern wintering grounds. (Photo by Zsolt Czegledi/EPA)