A black swan glides across a lake in London’s St. James’s Park on Thursday, October 30, 2025. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)





This photo taken on November 7, 2025, shows a pelican resting along the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia. (Photo by Antony Dickson/AFP Photo)





A blue-and-yellow macaw is seen at the National Zoological Park in New Delhi on Monday, November 10, 2025. The zoo, which was shut down following the detection of avian influenza, was reopening after more than two months, officials said. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/NurPhoto/Getty Images)





The lioness Zahara with her two cubs in Nairobi national park in Kenya in the second decade of November 2025. (Photo by Nicolas Urlacher/Naturagency/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Red-billed gulls are seen in their colony in Taiaroa Head at the northeastern tip of the Otago Peninsula in Dunedin on November 12, 2025. (Photo by Sanka Vidanagama/AFP Photo)





A lizard rests on a flowering branch in Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal, on Tuesday, November 3, 2025. (Photo by Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A White-throated Kingfisher bird sits on a branch of a tree in Siliguri, eastern India on November 2, 2025. (Photo by Diptendu Dutta/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A juvenile Yellow-headed Caracara perches on the back of a resting capybara along the mangroves at Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on November 11, 2025. Common throughout Brazil's wetlands and urban parks, these adaptable raptors are often seen riding on large mammals such as capybaras or cattle, feeding on ticks and insects they uncover. The peaceful pairing highlights a moment of easy coexistence in the heart of the city's natural sanctuary. (Photo by Bob Karp/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Spoonbills at sunset at the Lixiahe national wetland park in Xinghua City, China in the second decade of November 2025. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A European polecat forages in woodland in Aberystwyth, UK, caught by a camera trap in the second decade of November 2025. The polecat, a relative of the ferret, was once on the brink of extinction in the country; it is still an uncommon sight, but its numbers are rising in rural Wales. (Photo by Philip Jones/Alamy Live News)





A grey squirrel collects dry fallen leaves for a drey on a mild autumn day in London, England on November 12, 2025. (Photo y Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire via Alamy Live News)





A gosling on the banks of the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany in the first decade of November 2025. (Photo by Zuma Press/Alamy Live News)





A pair of Northern saw-whet owls peer from a tree hollow in Acadia National Park, Maine, USA in the second decade of November 2025. (Photo by Max Wang/Solent News & Photo Agency)





In this photo taken November 6, 2025, a wild Sumatran elephant calf clings to its mother during the fitting of a GPS collar by the Riau Natural Resources Conservation Center (BBKSDA Riau) in the Tesso Tenggara conservation area in Pelalawan Regency, Riau. (Photo by Wahyudi/AFP Photo)





A North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) surfaces with a catfish in its jaws in a remote pond near Elkton in rural southwestern Oregon on November 12, 2025. These agile, semi-aquatic predators can hold their breath for up to eight minutes while hunting underwater. Once in sharp decline from habitat loss and over-trapping, river otter populations have rebounded across much of North America thanks to cleaner waterways and reintroduction efforts. (Photo by Robin Loznak/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Vultures feed on carcasses at an observation station built specially for the purpose in Bolu, Turkey in the first decade of November 2025. Carcasses are placed at the station each day at dawn, attracting vultures and other scavenger birds, who in turn attract local nature enthusiasts and photographers. (Photo by Anadolu/Getty Images)





Seals on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 on the Farne Islands during the annual census of pup numbers at one of England's largest grey seal colonies. The islands, off the Northumberland coast, is an important haven for thousands of seabirds and hundreds of adult seals, and are looked after by the National Trust. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)





Seals on the Farne Islands during the annual census of pup numbers at one of England's largest grey seal colonies on Wednesday, November 12, 2025. The islands, off the Northumberland coast, is an important haven for thousands of seabirds and hundreds of adult seals, and are looked after by the National Trust. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)