A Yemen chameleon crawls on artificial leaves in Sana'a, Yemen, 04 October 2025. The veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) is native to the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen and Saudi Arabia and can live up to five years. The Yemen chameleon is naturally a light and bright green most of the time, simulating bright foliage. (Photo by Yahya Arhab/EPA)





A UK zoo which used a Blind Date-style sliding screen technique to encourage their fossas to mate are celebrating the arrival of rare pups. Chester Zoo successfully used the Cilla Black inspired method to get Zaza and Shala to breed the UK's only Malagasy fossa pups. Keepers had kept them at a distance at first to mimic their natural environment using a sliding screen like the hit dating show - and to their Surprise Surprise it worked. The attraction welcomed the four newborns on July 8 and the 12-week-old pups have now been spotted venturing out for the first time. Photo released on October 9, 2025. (Photo by Chester Zoo/South West News Service)





The Red deer rut continues with large males bellowing as a sign of dominance at Bushy park in London on October 14, 2025. (Photo by Ed Brown/Alamy Live News)





Mute swans float on the River Thames, Friday, October 10, 2025, in Windsor, England. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)





A stunning red goshawk in flight at Newhaven wildlife sanctuary, NT, Australia in October 2025. The mysterious bird, which exists nowhere else on Earth, is disappearing from Australia’s landscape as a result of climate change and habitat loss. (Photo by Tim Henderson/Australian Wildlife Conservancy)





A stag bellows beside does in Richmond Park, London, Britain, 02 October 2025. Richmond Park, a National Nature Reserve, is home to over 630 red and fallow deer who have been roaming freely since 1637. During the deer rutting season, running from September to November, the male deer, such as stags or bucks, compete for the right to mate with females (does), with stags becoming territorial by using their roar and antlers to deter rivals. (Photo by Neil Hall/EPA)





Kangaroos are seen next to the track during practice ahead of the 2025 Bathurst 1000 which is part of the 2025 Supercars Championship at Mount Panorama on October 10, 2025 in Bathurst, Australia. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)





Humboldt penguins (Spheniscus humboldti) are seen at the Punta San Juan National Reserve in the Marcona district, Ica department, southern Peru on September 30, 2025. Once teeming with birds, the cliffs of Punta San Juan de Marcona, in the arid south of Peru, are now almost deserted. Populations of sea lions and Humboldt penguins have also declined. Their colonies were decimated by avian flu in late 2022, but with the El Niño climate phenomenon driving away fish-rich waters, they have been further weakened. Overfishing deepens the crisis. (Photo by Ernesto Benavides/AFP Photo)





A hoary marmot – sometimes called a whistle pig, on account of its high-pitched alarm call – pokes its head out in Mount Rainier national park, Washington, US on October 2, 2025. (Photo by M. Scott Brauer/Zuma Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A pair of otters share a soft kiss over seaweed on the Isle of Mull, Scotland in the first decade of October 2025. (Photo by David Akers/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A little owl and a greater spotted woodpecker get into a fight, captured by Tom Ellis, a wildlife photographer from Staffordshire, UK in the first decade of October 2025. (Photo by Tom Ellis/Cater News Agency)





This handout photo taken on October 7, 2025 and released by the Berlin Zoological Garden on October 10, 2025 shows 13-year-old female hippopotamus Nala bathing with her male cub in a pool at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany. On September 28, 2025, hippo Nala gave birth to twins, the Berlin Zoo announced on October 7, 2025. However, only one of the two male cubs survived, the other died shortly after birth. Hippopotamuses are listed as "endangered" on the IUCN Red List. According to the zoo, hippopotamuses cannot swim. They glide through the water by pushing themselves off the ground with their legs. (Photo by Handout/Berlin Zoological Garden via AFP Photo)





Flying squirrels poke their heads out of tree hollows. The rodents peer out of the hollow to look out for any predators. The photos were taken in Hokkaido in Japan in the first decade of October 2025, and show rare daylit glimpses of the usually nocturnal rodents. (Photo by Takashi Kubo/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) stuffs its cheek pouches with hazelnuts gathered from a farmer's harvest on a ranch near Elkton in rural southwestern Oregon on October 10, 2025. The species is known for its expandable cheek pouches, which allow it to transport food back to its burrow for storage. (Photo by Robin Loznak/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A lion cub plays with his mother’s tail in Olare Motorogi Conservancy in Kenya in the first decade of October 2025. (Photo by Samson So/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A red-faced gibbon and her three month-old baby stand in their enclosure at Cerza Zoo, in Lisieux, northwestern France, on October 17, 2025. The red-faced gibbon (Nomascus gabriellae) is listed as endangered by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), mainly due to deforestation and hunting, particularly for the pet trade and bushmeat. (Photo by Lou Benoist/AFP Photo)





A magpie finds the perfect perch atop a red deer stag's head at the height of the annual rut in Bushy Park, London on October 16, 2025. As autumn takes hold, parks across the UK echo with the roars of stags battling for supremacy and the attention of nearby females. The rut is a period where deer and stags display more unique courtship behaviours, and males compete for dominance through behaviours like roaring or bellowing. (Photo by Cristi Vasile/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Flamingos forage for food in Sebkhat Sijoumi in Tunis on October 9, 2025, a lake that retains water year-round and serves as a vital refuge for thousands of migratory and wintering birds despite steadily declining water levels. (Photo by Fethi Belaid/AFP Photo)