Some of the estimated 2,500 Atlantic grey seals on Horsey Beach in Norfolk, UK on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, where they gather every year to moult their worn out winter fur and grow new sleeker coats. The five-mile stretch of Norfolk coast has become an important breeding ground for the mammals, with over 3,500 pups being born there over winter. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)





A spider monkey (Ateles) feeds on fruit packs in ice blocks at the Legends Park Zoo in Huachipa, eastern Lima on February 23, 2024. To cope with the overwhelming heatwave, the zoo opted for an imaginative alternative: placing apples, carrots and meat inside large blocks of ice. “It is a strategy that is being used to ensure the well-being of our animals in this time of quite hot weather that we are all suffering”, biologist Sonia Rivera from the Legends Park Zoo told AFP. (Photo by Cris Bouroncle/AFP Photo)





American white pelicans are seen on the island of Petatan in the municipality of Cojumatlan de Regules, Michoacan state, Mexico on February 23, 2024. The island becomes home to the pelicans during the winter, when they travel from the north of the United States and the south of Canada to the warmer waters of Lake Chapala in Mexico. The birds are a tourist attraction and people gather on the island's boardwalk to feed them and watch them fly. (Photo by Enrique Castro/AFP Photo)





Gray whales swim in the waters of the Gulf of California, Mexico's Mar de Cortes. Every year gray whales travel the longest migration known to exist among mammals swimming more than 16.000 kilometers (10,000 miles) from the Arctic Seas to Mexico's warm water where they give birth and nurse. on February 26, 2014. (Photo by Carlos Perez Gallardo/Reuters)





Kala, a Sumatran tiger cub born on December 1, 2023, looks on as it is being presented to the public for the first time, at Bioparco Zoo in Rome, Italy, on March 7, 2024. Picture taken through a glass. (Photo by Yara Nardi/Reuters)





A parrot picks cherry blossom at the Battersea Park in London, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)





A pair of red shouldered hawks perch on a snag while the moon sets behind them at Harns Marsh in Lehigh Acres in Buckingham, Fla. on February 27, 2024. Harns Marsh is a storm water facility that helps filter water and reduces flooding to the Orange River. (Photo by Andrew West/USA Today Network)





A Ocreatus underwoodii hummingbird is pictured in Dagua, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, during the 2024 Colombian Bird Fair on February 15, 2024. The 2024 Colombian Bird Fair takes place until February 18. (Photo by Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP Photo)





An elephant at Kruger National Park in South Africa surprises tourists by blocking their cars in February 2024. The park is home to 147 species of mammals, 114 reptile species, 49 fish species and 508 species of birds. (Photo by WINGS2TUSKS/Caters News Agency)




View of a spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) during the inauguration of the sanctuary dedicated to the conservation of the species, at the Paramo Natural Reserve, in Guasca Municipality, Cundinamarca department, Colombia, on February 21, 2024. (Photo by Raul Arboleda/AFP Photo)





A fox searches for food in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights on the border with Syria and Lebanon, Tuesday, February 27, 2024. (Photo by Ariel Schalit/AP Photo)





A toque macaque (Macaca sinica) is eating biscuits in Dambulla, Sri Lanka, on January 23, 2024. (Photo by Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Cygnets are feeding on the water at the Hongze Lake Wetland scenic spot in Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China, on February 27, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A skilful robin swoops in to catch a mid-air fly in Hessett, Suffolk, UK in the last decade of February 2024. (Photo by Ivor Otley/Animal News Agency)





Three giraffes from the same family unit keep watch while foraging in Victoria Falls National Park in Zimbabwe in the last decade of February 2024. (Photo by Paul Watkins/Solent News)





A Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros crosses a trail inside the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





A buffalo is pictured on March 2, 2024 in Iraq's central Mesopotamian marshes, located in the Chibayish district of the southern Dhi Qar governorate, which has recently witnessed an increase in water levels as a result of the abundant rainfall following a long period or drought that had dried the marshland up. Even at their centre in Chibayish, only a few expanses of the ancient waterways – home to a Marsh Arab culture that goes back millennia – survive, linked by channels that snake through the reeds. Thanks to seasonal rain this winter, the wetlands have seen life go through them again and brought visitors back to to the area from across Iraq and even abroad. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)





Adélie penguins return to an iceberg after a fishing trip in the last decade of February 2024. Populations of Adélie penguins in Antarctica have fallen by more than 65 per cent in the past 25 years. (Photo by Brian Matthews/Solent News)





While many of us would pay good money for a spa mud bath, these fortunate hippos in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia, have nature to thank as they take a plunge in a lagoon in the second decade of February 2024. (Photo by Dimitar Nedelchev/Solent News)





A bird flies between two giraffes in Bandia Conservation Park, Mbour, Senegal on March 2, 2024. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)