Giraffes stand together in the Nairobi National Park, Kenya on September 15, 2022. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)





A southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) is photographed in the waters of the South Atlantic Ocean near Puerto Madryn, Chubut Province, Argentina, on October 5, 2022. Despite the recent deaths of at least 13 southern right whales, authorities have recorded more than 1,400 whales in the Nuevo and San Jose gulfs, the largest number in more than 50 years. (Photo by Luis Robayo/AFP Photo)





Baby Asian elephant Nang Phaya with mother Donna in her enclosure at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo on Monday, September 26, 2022. The new arrival has been named the Thai word for “Queen” at the UK's largest zoo, in honour of its patron, Queen Elizabeth II, who once met the calf's mum. The female elephant calf was born at the attraction on Monday August 22, to mum Donna, who the Queen met when she opened the Zoo's Centre for Elephant Care in 2017. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)





A bear relaxing in an Alaskan Lake having his own spa day in a lake in Moraine Creek Katmai National Park and Preservein September 2022. (Photo by Khanh V. Le/Caters News Agency)





A pair of gannets squabble over their fish dinner off Bempton Cliffs, by the town of Bridlington, Yorks in September 2022.(Photo by Simon Jenkins/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A hippo gives some terrapin's a scare as it shows off it's powerful jaws in the Kruger National Park, South Africa in September 2022. (Photo by Jean Jacques Alcalay/Naturagency/Solent News & Photo Agency)





This is the moment an inquisitive seal decided to play with some lucky scuba divers in Portland Harbour, Dorset early October 2022. (Photo by Stephanie Pettitt/Bournemouth News and Picture Service)





A wild macaque chews a leaf at the Woodlands waterfront park in Singapore on September 22, 2022. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





Wild buffalos seen graze inside Burapahar Range of Kaziranga National Park in the India's northeast state of Assam on Sepember 22,2022. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Photo taken on September 17, 2022 shows an African leopard at the Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. Covering an area of 19,485 square kilometers in northeastern South Africa, the park is a home to an impressive number of species. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Egret enjoying its meal of fresh fish at the lake in Ajmer, India on 19 September 2022. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Giant panda “An An” holds her newborn baby in her arms at the Qinling Giant Panda Research Center on September 19, 2022 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province of China. Giant panda “An An” on Monday gave birth to a female cub that weighed 132.8 grams upon birth. (Photo by Zhao Pengpeng/Hua Shang Daily/VCG via Getty Images)





A polar bear snorts after swimming behind a pod of beluga whales passing near the shoreline of the Hudson Bay near Churchill on August 9, 2022. (Photo by Olivier Morin/AFP Photo)





A red deer stag bellows while he guards his harem of females in Richmond Park, London on September 22, 2022 as the mating season, known as the rut, begins. (Photo by Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A snail crawls on flower buds at the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore on September 20, 2022. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





A brown bear seemed to enjoy the water at Brooks River in Alaska’s Katmai National Park in the second decade of September 2022. (Photo by Simon Roberts/Solent News)





Sea lions are seen at the Pier 39 of Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California, United States on September 13, 2022. The sea lions camped out in PIER 39's West Marina have been endearingly coined The PIER's “Sea Lebrities”. The boisterous pinnipeds started arriving in droves in January 1990, shortly after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A deer stag barks in the early morning during the annual rutting season in Richmond Park, London, Britain on October 6, 2022. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)





A Ural owl (Strix uralensis) looks on during a bird show at the Kuwait University College of Education in Kuwait City on October 10, 2022. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP Photo)





Fish-eye lens with a twist: the Norwegian photographer Brutus Ostling uses bait to lure a herring gull for a close-up in September 2022. (Photo by Brutus Ostling/Solent News)