A Black Crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) flies in a field near Las Tiamitas, in the northern region of Apure State, Venezuela, on October 5, 2024. (Photo by Federico Parra/AFP Photo)





Anatolian wild sheep, an endemic species unique to Turkiye, are spotted at the Bozdag Wildlife Development Center in Konya. Turkiye on September 29, 2024. The wild sheep, monitored 24/7 by cameras, live in groups within the steppe structures of the mountain range at altitudes between 1000 and 1700 meters, in a 60,000-hectare area under the jurisdiction of the 8th Regional Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks. (Photo by Seyit Konyali/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A Spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) is seen on the shore of the stream near Las Tiamitas, in the northern region of Apure State, Venezuela, on October 5, 2024. (Photo by Federico Parra/AFP Photo)





In this photo provided by the National Park Service is Grazer, the winner of the 2023 Fat Bear Contest, at Katmai National Park, Alaska on September 14, 2023. The park holds an annual contest in which people logging on to live webcams in park pick the fattest bear of the year. Grazer had 108,321 votes to handily beat Chunk, who has 23,134 votes, in the Oct. 10, 2023, finals. (Photo by F. Jimenez/National Park Service via AP Photo)





A male fallow deer in Dublin's Phoenix park, Ireland during rutting season on Thursday, October 10, 2024. (Photo by Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images)





A Sika deer at the Jaegersborg Deer Park, in Klampenborg, north of Copenhagen, 15 October 2024. The sika deer, also known as the Northern spotted deer or the Japanese deer, is a species of deer native to much of East Asia. Jaegersborg Dyrehave represents an ancient Danish countryside, with old oak trees and large populations of red and fallow deer. (Photo by Thomas Traasdahl/EPA/EFE)





A red squirrel forages for food ahead of winter at the Widdale Red Squirrel Reserve in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, UK on Monday, October 14, 2024. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)





A polar bear goes with the floe, catching a ride on a small piece of ice in Svalbard in the second decade of October 2024. (Photo by Piet van den Bemd/Caters News Agency)





An Indian flying fox, the largest bat species in the world, hangs from the branches of a tree in Bhaktapur, Nepal on October 13, 2024. (Photo by Skanda Gautam/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A swallow feeding at the Rietvlei Nature Reserve in Pretoria, South Africa in the second decade of October 2024. (Photo by Ethan Blowfield/Solent News)





A male jaguar named Ipepo, by NGO Jaguar ID, bites an alligator at Encontro das Aguas State Park, in the Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world, in Pocone, Mato Grosso, Brazil, on October 6, 2024. (Photo by Sergio Moraes/Reuters)





A photographer has captured moody images of a stag in North Yorkshire. David Robertshaw shot the red deer on Sunday, October 13, 2024 morning near York, UK. (Photo by David Robertshaw/South West News Service)





A pair of kangaroos fight in what may be a battle over territory in Yanchep National Park, Western Australia in the first decade of October 2024. (Photo by Ahmad Abdelhameed/Solent News)





Tens of thousands of birds flock together at Snettisham Nature Reserve, Norfolk in the first decade of October 2024, to avoid becoming a peregrine’s breakfast. (Photo by Lester Bunyan/Solent News)





Starlings (Sturnidae) are seen near Doganpinar Dam as migratory birds congregate in the wetlands during seasonal changes in Oguzeli district of Gaziantep, Turkiye on October 05, 2024. (Photo by Adsiz Gunebakan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A pheasant is seen among grasses in Bursa, Turkiye on October 07, 2024. Pheasants mostly live in forested areas, thickets and wetlands. Unlike females, male pheasants have a much more remarkable structure with their long tails and feathers in bright and variable colors. Also, they feed on fruits, grains, seeds and invertebrates. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A Palestine mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) is pictured in the wilderness near the village of Dura al-Qara, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on October 14, 2024. (Photo by Zain Jaafar/AFP Photo)





Icelandic horses get wet in the pouring rain at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, October 9, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





A female Allen's hummingbird rests atop the leaf of an amaryllis plant in a suburban garden of Orange County, California on October 14, 2024. (Photo by Bruce Chambers/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Boki, a two-year-old brown bear, in his enclosure at the Wildwood Trust in Canterbury, Kent, UK on Monday. October 14, 2024 as he recovers from surgery to drain fluid from his brain, the first time an operation of the kind had been carried out in the UK. (Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images)