Deer play at Nara Park near Osaka, Japan on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





A flock of Canadian geese are seen at Rouge Beach in Rouge National Urban Park, Ontario, Canada on January 28, 2025. (Photo by Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A bald eagle makes off with its catch of the day at Chaparral Lake in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 2025. (Photo by Mark Koster/Media Drum Images)





Otters engage in a sibling squabble, complete with “shouting” and slapping over their share of dinner on Shetland, Scotland early February 2025. (Photo by Brydon Thomason/Solent News)





North African Lion Winta takes her three cubs, which are 9 weeks old, outside for the first time at Whipsnade Zoo, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK on Tuesday, January 28, 2025. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski/Whipsnade Zoo)





Five-star dining: a gull picks up a starfish at Keyhaven, Hampshire, UK early February 2025. (Photo by Will Evans/Snap Photography/Bournemouth News)





Penguins play “follow the leader” at Volunteer Point in the northeast of East Falkland, the largest king penguin colony in the Falkland Islands in the last decade of January 2025. (Photo by Olav Thokle/Solent News)





Giant panda Mang Cancan and his mother Mang Zai eat bamboo at Chongqing Zoo in Chongqing, China, on February 4, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





This charming pair of polar bear cubs were captured trotting around Wapusk National Park in Manitoba, Canada in the first decade of February 2025. (Photo by Lisa Adler/Solent News)





These two male and female great-spotted woodpeckers have gone head-to-head as if they are looking in a mirror. The striking image was captured by amateur photographer Paul Turner, at his home in Offham, Kent, UK in January 2025, who had been waiting all morning to snap the picture. (Photo by PaulTurner/Bournemouth News)





Young African elephants in Amboseli, Kenya in the last decade of January 2025, assess each other’s strength in a play-fight with their trunks and sometimes their teeth. (Photo by Jie Fischer/Solent News)





A walrus takes centre stage after barging another out of the way to be in a photograph in Svalbard, between mainland Norway and the North Pole in January 2025. (Photo by Olav Thokle/Syndicated Photos/Solent News)





This photograph shows an albino red-bellied turtle resting next to a sibbling at the Ferme aux Crocodiles, in Pierrelatte on January 28, 2025. The birth of an albino individual of this aquatic species native to Australia and New Guinea is an extremely rare phenomenon. (Photo by Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP Photo)





A barn owl at the Attica Zoological Park near Athens, January 21, 2025. (Photo by Thanassis Stravrakis/AP Photo)





A newborn Green Sea Turtle hatchling attempts to find its way to the ocean after hatching on February 02, 2025 in Heron Island, Australia. Each year between November and March, Green Sea Turtles emerge from the ocean to lay hundreds of eggs each on the coastline of Heron Island, before returning to the ocean. The hatchlings emerge around 6 weeks later and then have to survive a series of predators ranging from Sea Gulls to Reef Sharks, resulting in an estimated surival rate of one in 1,000. (Photo by James Gourley/Getty Images)





In the Masai Mara, Kenya in the last decade of January 2025, a fight breaks out between a female lion and the male who was courting her, but tried to mate too soon. (Photo by Ann Aveyard/Caters News Agency)





A mandarin duck preening in Dublin's Botanic gardens on Thursday, February 6, 2025. Native to east Asia, mandarins were brought to Britain and Ireland from China in the middle of the 18th Century. Some of them escaped or were released from wildfowl collections during the 1930s. (Photo by Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images)





A wild Short-eared owl flies over grassland near Deal in Kent, UK on Thursday, January 30, 2024 whilst hunting for food in the late afternoon sunshine. Short-eared owls mainly hunt during the daytime, flying low over moorland, grassland and saltmarshes where they feed on field voles and small birds. (Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images)





Introducing the Mount Lyell shrew, the only known California mammal never photographed alive, until now. Three young scientists caught five of the tiny shrews in their pitfall traps overnight in January 2025 (all were quickly released). The furry creatures are less than 4in long, and weigh only a gram and a half – about the same as two paperclips. (Photo by California Academy of Sciences)





Thirty-year-old Asian elephant Rose-Tu is seen with her baby after giving birth at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Ore. on February 1, 2025. (Photo by Oregon Zoo via AP Photo)