A little owl on a branch in front of the recent full moon in Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, England in August 2023. (Photo by Matt Pennal/Animal News Agency)





An Oriental Small Clawed Otter yawns during London Zoo's Annual Weigh In, in London, Thursday, August 24, 2023. The Annual Weigh In is a chance for keepers at the conservation zoo to make sure the information they've recorded is up-to-date and accurate, with each measurement then added to the Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS), a database shared with zoos all over the world that helps zookeepers to compare important information on thousands of threatened species. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)





Two white face monkey (Cebus Capucinus) gesture at Thomas Belt Zoo in Juigalpa, Nicaragua on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Oswaldo Rivas/AFP Photo)





Cheetah Darcy enjoys her newly-developed Cheetah Territory that covers 10,000 square at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, near Doncaster, UK on Wednesday, August 16, 2023. Darcy, who is four-years-old, travelled from Ireland's Fota Wildlife Park to YWP last week where she will be joined by 13-year-old male Brooke who is on his way from the Bristol Zoo Project as a recommendation by the European Endangered Species Programme. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)





Baby elephants tussle with their trunks as they chase each other round a waterhole in the Addo national park, South Africa in August 2023. (Photo by Anne Laing/Caters News)





Endangered white-headed ducks (Oxyura leucocephala) swim at Lake Ercek in Van, Turkiye on August 15, 2023. The white-headed ducks, which are on the verge of extinction, are protected by Nature Conservation and National Parks officers and Gendarmerie environmental protection teams. (Photo by Ali Ihsan Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Flamingos arrive their wintering area, Kocacay Delta after spending the summer in Po Delta (Delta del Po) in Italy's Venice, on August 20, 2023 in Karacabey district of Bursa, Turkiye. Nearly a thousand flamingos fly along the Mediterranean coastline in flocks to return their wintering areas on the coast of the Marmara Sea. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





It was no laughing matter when this hyena tried to steal a kill from a pack of wild dogs determined to protect their meal in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia in August 2023. The larger spotted hyena had seen a group of wild dogs bring down a puku antelope and decided to try and muscle them out of the way. But the wild dogs did not see the funny side and as thes picture show the pack managed to mount a sterling defence against the bigger bully. (Photo by Dave Pugh/Magnus News)





Pelicans are seen at St. James Park which has a variety of bird species and where people experience wild life and nature in London, United Kingdom on August 11, 2023. Staff working at the park feeds the pelicans with fish. (Photo by Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Lineated Barbet chicks, tucked up in their nest in a botanical garden in Dhaka, Bangladesh in August 2023, tussle with each other before their parents return with food. (Photo by Mohammed Ashraf Ali/Solent News)





A little owl spotted on August 20, 2023 in Potters Bar, Herts, England looking like a UFO. (Photo by Ian Turner/Animal News Agency)





The image shows the tired sea lion smiling while he dreams off the coast of La Paz, Mexico in Baja California in the second decade of August 2023. (Photo by Josh Blank/Media Drum Images)





A Goldfinch is seen in the trees at RSPB Exminster and Powderham Marshes on August 16, 2023 in Exeter, United Kingdom. (Photo by Harry Trump/Getty Images)





Two seals swim in the North Sea at the east end of the island of Juist in Lower Saxony on August 16, 2023. After a successful breeding in the seal station Norddeich, the four seals Mokki, Berthold, Choupinette and Fine have been released into the wild. They were brought to the East Frisian island of Juist by ship and released there. (Photo by Hauke-Christian Dittrich/dpa)





An Oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) flies over in Baluran National Park, Situbondo, East Java, Indonesia August 6, 2023. Baluran National Park is a forest preservation area that extends about 25.000 ha on the north east coast of East Java. Wide panorama of savannah which covered 40 percent of the national park and mount Baluran (inactive volcano) lies in the center of area as habitat of many some animals such as wild pigs, deer, peacocks, wild chickens, monkeys and also bulls as animals to be protected in the area. (Photo by Garry Andrew Lotulung/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A brown bear snags a sockeye salmon in mid-air on August 11, 2023 at Brooks Falls, Alaska within the Katmai National Park and Preserve. The bears feast in large numbers at the falls between July and September, as millions of salmon swim upstream to spawn. Many of the same bears return to the falls annually, gorging on salmon to fatten up before hibernating for winter. The bears have become something of an internet sensation, as “bearcams” livestream bear activity at and around the falls to viewers worldwide. Commercial salmon fishing in Alaskan waters has often pitted business interests against wildlife conservationists in Alaska, which has more national park and wilderness land than anywhere in the United States. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)





Brown bears fish for sockeye salmon on August 11, 2023 at Brooks Falls, Alaska within the Katmai National Park and Preserve. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)





Alternate crop) A brown bear eats his catch while fishing for salmon on August 12, 2023 near Brooks Falls, Alaska. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)





Wildebeests (Connochaetes taurinus) are seen during their migration to the greener pastures, between the Maasai Mara game reserve and the open plains of the Serengeti, southwest of Nairobi, in the Maasai Mara game reserve, in Narok County, Kenya on August 22, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





A 2 months old Asian dwarf otter looks on, at the Parc Animalier d'Auvergne in Ardes, on August 17, 2023. Three males and one female: a pair of dwarf Asian otters, a species in danger of extinction, gave birth to four otters, whose s*x could be identified on August 17, 2023, at the Auvergne Wildlife Park in Ardes. (Photo by Jeff Pachoud/AFP Photo)