A humpback whale jumps above water near Recreio dos Bandeirantes beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 24, 2024. (Photo by Sergio Moraes/Reuters)





Red-billed oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorynchus) travel on top of a wild boar at Mikumi National Park, one of the fourth largest natural habitats in the country on June 22, 2024 in Mikumi Tanzania. Mikumi National Park, one of the leading safari centers, offers its visitors examples of African wildlife. (Photo by Ismail Aslandag/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A female harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) is seen at La Reserva Biopark in Cota municipality, near Bogota, on June 11, 2024. A white dome hides a recreated jungle for a pair of harpy eagles rescued from illegal trafficking in Colombia. Monogamous by nature, their caretakers are betting on a romance that will result in a baby eagle to preserve this endangered species. The largest eagle in the Western Hemisphere is in a vulnerable state, with a declining population of between 100,000 and 250,000 individuals worldwide, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (Photo by Raúl Arboleda/AFP Photo)





Zebras are seen at Serengeti National Park, located in the north of Tanzania and covering an area of 14,763 square kilometers, containing the world's largest wildlife sanctuaries in Tanzania on June 26, 2024. The year-round 'Great Migration' route, which passes through different parts of Africa, passes through Serengeti between June and October. With the onset of drought in May, millions of wildebeest migrate northward from the south of the Serengeti to the Masai Mara in Kenya, where they are joined by gazelles, zebras and many other herbivores. (Photo by Abdulrahman Abel/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A herd of milu deer wander through the mudflat at Tiaozini Wetland in sunset on June 23, 2024 in Yncheng, Jiangsu Province of China. The pink plant is seepweed, similar to samphire. (Photo by Sun Jialu/VCG via Getty Images)





Flocks of egrets are breeding and foraging in the branches of the water forest scenic spot in Jinhu County, Huai'an city, East China's Jiangsu province, on June 22, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Male blue spotted mudskippers battle in breeding season at Ariake Sea on June 14, 2024 in Ogi, Saga, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





Crowned lapwing (Vanellus coronatus) is seen at Mikumi National Park, one of the fourth largest natural habitats in the country on June 22, 2024 in Mikumi Tanzania. Mikumi National Park, one of the leading safari centers, offers its visitors examples of African wildlife. (Photo by Ismail Aslandag/Anadolu via Getty Images)





An Atlantic puffin fetches a dinner of sand eels to feed to its chicks on Skomer Island in Pembrokeshire in the south-west of Wales on June 30, 2024. (Photo by Ed Brown/Cover Images)





Black caimans (Yacare caiman) are pictured near the road a few kilometers from Porto Esperanca, in the municipality of Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil, on June 25, 2024. (Photo by Pablo Porciuncula/AFP Photo)





A gecko is seen at Mikumi National Park, one of the fourth largest natural habitats in the country in Mikumi Tanzania on June 22, 2024. Mikumi National Park, one of the leading safari centers, offers its visitors examples of African wildlife. (Photo by Ismail Aslandag/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Silverio, a twelve-day-old white rhino, runs next to his mother Hannah during his presentation at the Buin Zoo in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. The baby rhino’s birth is the third of this endangered species born at the Buin. (Photo by Esteban Felix/AP Photo)





A vervet monkey in Lake Mburo national park, Uganda on June 18, 2024. (Photo by Cem Genco/Anadolu via Getty Images)





The Sunda lemur uses a special membrane to “fly” between trees while on the lookout for food in Java, Indonesia in the last decade of June 2024. (Photo by Dzulfikri/Solent News)





A jabiru stork stands in its nest Thursday, June 27, 2024, after being saved by firefighters in Corumbá, Brazil. Fires in June broke historical records in Brazil’s Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland on Earth. (Photo by Pablo Porciuncula/AFP Photo)





The photographer Brian Matthews uses decoys to attract puffins around the Farne Islands in Northumberland, June 2024. “They are very curious birds and will come over to check out any newcomers”, he said. (Photo by Brian Matthews/Solent News)





A sea lion rests at Allans Beach in Portobello on the Otago Peninsula on July 5, 2024. (Photo by Sanka Vidanagama/AFP Photo)





A starling sits on the back of a horse as another looks on at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A male white-tailed deer with velvet antlers is being seen along the shoreline just after sunrise at the Oxbow Nature Conservancy in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on June 26, 2024. (Photo by Jason Whitman/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A stoat preys on a rabbit in a field in Saltersgate, County Durham, UK early July 2024. Stoats are apex predators that kill rabbits, which can be ten times their size. (Photo by Andrew Morkot/Solent News & Photo Agency)