A Little Blue Heron attempts to swallow a baby Florida Softshell Turtle it catches moments earlier at Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando, Florida. Little Blue Herons are skilled predators, feeding on a variety of aquatic creatures including fish, turtles, insects, frogs, and even small reptiles. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A seagull flies with a fish over Humber River in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July 3, 2025. (Photo by Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Egrets rest on tree tops in Huai'an in China's eastern Jiangsu province on July 16, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A snowy egret at Pacific Grove, California, US on July 8, 2025. (Photo by Rory Merry/Zuma Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A sea cow eats salad in its enclosure at the Duisburg Zoo, western Germany on July 9, 2025. The Duisburg Dolphinarium celebrates its 60th anniversary and is now one of the most modern facilities for bottlenose dolphins in Europe with a clear educational, research and conservation mission as well as an important role in international dolphin protection work. (Photo by Ina Fassbender/AFP Photo)





A Bradfield’s hornbill in the Nxai Pan National Park, Kalahari Desert, Botswana in the second decade of July 2025, eyes up a scorpion before swallowing its catch whole. (Photo by Annette Marino/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Goslings walk along the banks of the Main River in Frankfurt, Germany on July 10, 2025. (Photo byBasualdo/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A new born chick looks out of the feathers of its mother at a farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, July 14, 2025. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Gray foxes are pictured in their habitat in the Sumidero Canyon nature reserve, in Chapa de Corzo, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, on July 3, 2025. (Photo by Daniel Becerril/Reuters)





An Amur Leopard cub duo, who have not been names yet, take their first steps into their junior reserve at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, in Doncaster, UK on Thursday, July 17, 2025, which has welcomed two new sets of large cat cubs in the last few months. Born in May to mum, Kristen, and dad, Drake, the newborn cubs have been sheltering in their den for the past 2 months. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)





African elephant calf Kaja in its enclosure at the Opel Zoo in Kronberg, Germany, 22 July 2025. Kaja was born on 27 May 2025. (Photo by Ronald Wittek/EPA)





This handout picture released by the team of researchers Pavan et al. 2025, via the National Service of Natural Protected Areas of Peru (Sernanp) on July 16, 2025, shows a new species of marsupial called “Marmosa chachapoya” which was discovered in the Rio Abiseo National Park, San Martin Department, about 720 km northeast of Lima. A scientific team found a new species of marsupial in a natural park in the Peruvian Amazon, Sernanp reported on July 16, 2025. The research was carried out by Brazilians Silvia Pavan and Edson Abreu and United States' Robert Voss. (Photo by Pedro Peloso/Pavan, et al./AFP Photo)





A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar) is pictured during the inauguration of the Asia Pavilion at the Cali Zoo in Cali, Colombia, on July 17, 2026. (Photo by Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP Photo)





A woodpecker and an owl bicker on a tree branch near Bromsgrove in the West Midlands, UK in the second decade of July 2025. The photographer says the juvenile woodpecker, with a red crown, poked the owl in the eye before flying off. (Photo by Julie Yates/Solent News & Photo Agency)





New lion cubs playing in their enclosure at the West Midlands Safari Park in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, UK on Thursday, July 17, 2025. The trio, named Nancy, Nox and Nero arrived on 13 April 2025, to mum, 12-year-old Amber. (Photo by Jacob King/PA Wire)





Two tiny great crested grebes stay safe and dry while riding on the back of their mother on a pond in Berkshire, UK in the second decade of July 2025. (Photo by Paul Browning/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Lion cubs from the Black Rock pride playfight in the Masai Mara national reserve in Kenya in the second decade of July 2025. (Photo by Akash Akinwar/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A vole looks surprised as it is carried away in the talons of a white-tailed kite in Mountain View, California, US in the first decade of July 2025. (Photo by Sha Lu/South West News Service)





A roebuck stands in a field of grain in eastern Brandenburg, Germany on July 15, 2025. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/dpa via AP Photo)