A pygmy hippopotamus cub named Toni dives through a pool for the first time for the public at the zoo in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, October 29, 2024. (Photo by Markus Schreiber/AP Photo)





This handout camera trap photo released by Conservation International on October 30, 2024 shows an Asiatic golden cat walking in the Central Cardamom Mountains in southwestern Cambodia in 2024. Camera traps have captured several endangered species inside Cambodia's highly threatened Cardamom Mountains for the first time, highlighting the need to protect the area – where several dams have been built – conservationists said on October 30. (Photo by Conservation International/Handout via AFP Photo)





Brown fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus), which are among the largest seal species with their brown fur and length of more than 2 meters, are seen in Cape Town, legislative capital of South Africa, on October 22, 2024. The outbreak of rabies in Cape fur seals living on the southern and southwestern coasts of Africa is the first known outbreak of rabies among marine mammals. According to a report published by the South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in July, a total of 17 cases were detected on the coastline between Cape Town and Plettenberg Bay cities as of the end of July, and it was stated that this outbreak was the first rabies outbreak seen among marine mammals worldwide. (Photo by Murat Ozgur Guvendik /Anadolu via Getty Images)





A giant bull is pictured in Alaska, United States on October 9, 2024. A bull moose with its impressive antlers was spotted near the center of Anchorage, a moment that once again highlighted the city's unique wildlife richness. The moose slowly made its way down the road covered in fall foliage, creating an unforgettable moment for residents. Anchorage's nature is one of the rare places where wild animals and city life exist side by side. (Photo by Hasan Akbas/Anadolu via Getty Images)





This handout camera trap photo released by Conservation International on October 30, 2024 shows an Asian elephant walking in the Central Cardamom Mountains in southwestern Cambodia in 2024. (Photo by Conservation International/Handout via AFP Photo)





A common noisy miner bird finds a meal in a Jacaranda Tree in the Royal Botanical Gardens on October 31, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. Jacarandas, which are not native to Australia, bloom in the spring. In Sydney, many parts of the city draw tourists and crowds as the trees welcome spring in November. (Photo by Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)





View of a Dominican hicotea turtle (trachemys stejnegeri vicina) at the Professor Eugenio de Jesus Marcano F. Botanical Garden in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, 28 October 2024. The garden spans over 650,000 square meters dedicated to conservation and environmental education. Its first phase was inaugurated on 23 April 2018, and to this day it continues in constant development. In the first bird inventory carried out in 2017, 23 species were identified. In the most recent one, up to 72 species have been documented, of which up to eight are migratory. (Photo by Diana Sanchez/EPA/EFE)





Tens of thousands of birds fill the sky in UK on October 25, 2024 as part of a natural phenomenon known as the wader spectacular, when thousands of wading birds take off all at once, blocking out the sky with a wall of wings. (Photo by ShifaanThowfeequ/Bournemouth News)





A pelican at St James's Park in London, Britain, 17 October 2024. The pelicans of St. James’s Park date back hundreds of years and are a popular sight with visitors. First introduced to the park in 1664 as a gift from the Russian Ambassador, some forty pelicans have since made the park their home. (Photo by Andy Rain/EPA/EFE)





An eagle swoops to snatch a fish from Lake Naivasha in Kenya in the last decade of October 2024. (Photo by Allen He/Solent News)





10 baby sea turtles are released with three adult sea turtles named “Cumhuriyet”, “Sonsuz” and “Ozgurluk” with a satellite tracking device attached to them return to sea after their treatments by the Sea Turtle Research, Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (DEKAMER) at Iztuzu Beach in Ortaca district of Mugla, Turkiye on October 29, 2024. (Photo by Osman Akca/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A swan swims in Swan Lake in Stryiskyi Park in autumn, Lviv, western Ukraine on October 24, 2024. (Photo by Ukrinform/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Grey heron plays on a lake in city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Tuesday, October 29, 2024. (Phoot by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





A monitor lizard looks on at Lumphini Park in Bangkok on October 29, 2024. (Photo by Alex Ogle/AFP Photo)





Bearded tits (bearded reedling) forage and roam at Longfeng wetland nature reserve on October 23, 2024 in Daqing, Heilongjiang Province of China. (Photo by Chi Shiyong/VCG via Getty Images)





A Calliphlox mitchellii hummingbird is pictured during a birdwatching trip in the framework of the COP16 summit in Cali, Colombia, on October 29, 2024. Humanity faces an “existential crisis” caused by its rapacious destruction of life-sustaining nature, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned delegates Tuesday at a major biodiversity summit in Colombia. (Photo by Joaquín Sarmiento/AFP Photo)





A leopard plays peekaboo with the photographer Nick Dale at the Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe in the last decade of October 2024. (Photo by Nick Dale/Solent News)





A hedgehog curls up in a garden in Rolleston on the outskirts of Christchurch, New Zealand, on October 27, 2024. As hedgehogs have no natural predators in New Zealand, they are considered a pest because they kill a variety of insects, lizards, and ground-nesting chicks and damage the biodiversity. Therefore, the Department of Conservation lists hedgehogs as the “most underrated predator”. (Photo by Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A female jaguar named Ti, by the NGO Jaguar ID, bites an alligator at Encontro das Aguas State Park, in the Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world, in Pocone, Mato Grosso, Brazil, on October 10, 2024. (Photo by Sergio Moraes/Reuters)





A female jaguar named Patricia, by NGO Jaguar ID, with her cub Makala are seen at Encontro das Aguas State Park, in the Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world, in Pocone, Mato Grosso, Brazil, on October 6, 2024. (Photo by Sergio Moraes/Reuters)