A wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea) flies close to a common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) near Csobanka, Hungary, 31 October 2024. (Photo by Attila Kovacs/EPA/EFE)





A tit feeds on a fresh apple in the city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Monday, October 28, 2024. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





This photograph shows a nutria (Myocastor coypus) swimming in a pond in Woippy, northeastern France, on November 5, 2024. (Photo by Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP Photo)





An Eastern Water Dragon, a species native to eastern Australia, is seen along a bush track in Sydney on November 3, 2024. (Photo by Saeed Khan/AFP Photo)





Egrets fly in Dambulla, Sri Lanka on November 7, 2024. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





Golden Plovers in Cullercoats Bay in North Tyneside, on the North East coast of England on Wednesday, November 6, 2024. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)





A rough skinned newt crosses a country road on a rainy afternoon near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on October 30, 2024. THe toxins of rough skinned newts are particularly potent. An acrid smell radiates from the newt, which acts as a warning for animals to stay away. (Photo by Robin Loznak/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A duck swims in a pond among the leaves turned yellow, orange and red with the arrival of autumn, at Tiergarten Park in Berlin, Germany on October 30, 2024. (Photo by Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images)





The western swamphen, attracting attention with its blue-toned colors, emerges from the reeds in the early hours of the day and feeds in the meadows of the Kizilirmak Delta, which is home to 300 different bird species in Samsun, Turkiye on November 04, 2024. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Two otters playfully wrestle in the waters off the Isle of Mull, Scotland in the first decade of November 2024. (Photo by Pete Walkden/Solent News)





A spotted owlet yawns in a public park in Bangkok on November 11, 2024. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





A squirrel carries a walnut in its mouth in the Skaryszewski Park in Warsaw, Poland, on November 5, 2024. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP Photo)





A sea eagle dives for fish in Svolvær, Lofoten Island, Norway early November 2024. The impressive birds can reach speeds of 40mph in the final moments before they strike to catch their prey. (Photo by Alberto Ghizzi Panizza /Animal News Agency)





A jaguar eyes up a group of otters from a riverbank in Porto Jofre, North Pantanal, Brazil early November 2024. (Photo by Octavio Campos Salles/Solent News)





Autumn morning at the Dunavac resort near Novi Sad, Serbia on October 27, 2024. (Photo by Nenad Mihajlovi/Tanjug)





Hummingbirds battle for first dibs on a flower in Costa Rica in the first decade of November 2024. According to the photographer, the birds spent more time fending off competition than they did feeding. (Photo by Simon Roberts/Solent News)





A herd of Asian elephants walks through a water body at Minneriya National Park in Sri Lanka's North Central Province on November 6, 2024. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)





An African Penguin emerges from a burrow at the Boulders penguin colony, which is a popular tourist destination, in Simon's Town, near in Cape Town, on November 1, 2024. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has changed the African Penguin from Endangered to Critically Endangered. (Photo by Rodger Bosch/AFP Photo)





View of a crocodile in a pond at a UNDP-sponsored crocodile farm in Guanare, Portuguesa State, Venezuela, on June 30, 2024. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)





Grey seals and their pups enjoy the isolation of Inchkeith Island in the Firth of Forth, Scotland early November 2024. (Photo by Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian)