A young grey seal was washed up at Blakeney Point freshwater grazing marsh in Norfolk in the first decade of January 2024 by an overnight high tide. Blakeney Point is home to England’s largest grey seal colony with about 4,000 pups born each year. (Photo by Jack Hill/The Times)





A crocodilian reptile swims in the lake water in Gatorland Park in Orlando, Florida, USA, 16 January 2024. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, many reptiles are highly sensitive to the altered temperatures that may result from climate change, especially the turtles and crocodilians that may encounter altered habitats and increased habitat fragmentation with altered climate. (Photo by Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich/EPA)





American Flamingos are pictured in a pond surrounded by snow at the Pairi Daiza zoo in Brugelette, Belgium on January 18, 2024. (Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters)





Mikolas, a newborn pygmy hippopotamus calf, appears with its mother, Malaya, at the safari park in Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic, Monday, January 15, 2024. The male baby hippo was born on Dec. 1, 2023. (Photo by Petr David Josek/AP Photo)





View of a chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarcticus) penguin swimming at the Gerlache Strait -which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)





A male kingfisher eats a fish from the River Ver, Verulamium Park, St Albans, Britain on January 11, 2024. (Photo by Peter Cziborra/Reuters)





Duni, a western lowland gorilla, holds her 16 days new born as they rest at the Zoo in Prague,on January 18, 2024. (Photo by Michal Cizek/AFP Photo)





A Sumatran Orangutan is following its instincts, reminding itself of the wild character needed to survive in the forest. The photograph was taken at the “Orangutan School”, which is the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP) reintroduction station in Jantho, Aceh Province, Indonesia, on November 14, 2018. The Head of Rehabilitation and Reintroduction of SOCP, who is also a veterinarian, Citrakasih Nente, is explaining the lengthy process of returning Orangutans to the forest after a quarantine period due to conflicts with humans. Before being released back into the wild, the Sumatran Orangutans must attend the Orangutan school. (Photo by Sutanta Aditya/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A fox crosses a frozen pond in Forest Gate, east London, UK in the second decade of January 2024. (Photo by Jeff Moore/The Guardian)





Infant langur monkeys play with on a wall in a residential garden in Alibag, south of Mumbai in the second decade of January 2024. The elder monkeys of the tribe were relaxing near by. (Photo by Sunil Prabhakar Thokal/Solent News)





A mischievous squirrel chases a turkey in a garden in Medford, Wisconsin in the second decade of January 2024. The garden’s owner, artist Cheryl Plautz, said the squirrels chase the birds “for fun”. (Photo by Cheryl Plautz/Solent News)





Japanese monkeys soak in an open-air hot spring at the tropical botanical garden in Hakodate, Hokkaido, northern Japan early January 2024. The macaques, also known as snow monkeys, frequently enjoy a dip in the thermal pool in Jigokudani valley. (Photo by Newscom/Alamy Live News)





View of a chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarcticus) penguin at the Gerlache Strait -which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)





Amazing Dalmatian pelicans get up close and personal with photographer Sean Weekly on Lake Kerkini in Northern Greece on January 5, 2024. (Photo by Sean Weekly/Animal News Agency)





A white-eye bird feeds on nectar from cherry blossoms on a branch of a cherry blossom tree on January 12, 2024 in Guiyang, Guizhou Province of China. (Photo by Qin Gang/VCG via Getty Images)





A duck is seen during a cold weather as the pool located at Kugulu Park, partially froze after temperatures dropped to -7 degrees Celsius in Ankara, Turkiye on January 14, 2024. (Photo by Evrim Aydin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A seal pup is apparently not listening to whatever its mother is trying to communicate on the Falkland Islands in the second decade of January 2024. (Photo by Michael Oliver/Animal News Agency)





A pair of bald eagles call out while resting on a tree next to Union Bay, Tuesday, January 16, 2024, in Seattle. (Photo by Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo)





A rare variety of the Arctic fox goes in search of food at the Hornstrandir Nature Reserve in Iceland in the first decade of January 2024. Unlike most Arctic foxes, the “blue morph” has fur that does not turn white in winter but provides such incredible insulation that the snow does not melt from its body heat. (Photo by Bret Charman/Solent News)





Icelandic horses brave a snow storm at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, January 15, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)